New brochure: Ballast water treatment with the new Westfalia Separator® BallastMaster

An estimated five billion tones of ballast water are in ships sailing the world’s oceans every day – with an upwards trend. Animal and plant species as well as bacteria strains are also “stowaways” in the tank onboard which are spread worldwide and enter foreign ecosystems. This not only endangers the marine environment but causes economic damage in the billions.

A convention of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) is curbing this by making ballast water treatment systems mandatory onboard of ships. This provision will come into force in 2016 at the latest and already applies for newbuildings.

Ballast water treatment systems are to ensure that that fewer than ten living organisms larger than 50 μm and fewer than ten organisms between 10 and 50 μm are discharged with the ballast into the sea.

These requirements are optimally met by the Westfalia Separator^® BallastMaster . The 3-stage system, which is currently passing through the IMO approval phase, ensures a high level of safety in the removal and killing of organisms, works with low energy and operating costs and is suitable for installation in newbuildings but is also ideal for customized retrofitting on ships.

Westfalia Separator^® BallastMaster will be on the market in mid 2012 following approval by the IMO.

The brochure is available as download in the box "Brochures" in the right column of this page.