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Ship Emissions Reduction System Recognised with Award
Haldor Topsøe A/S's ship emissions-reducing solution has won the 2014 Danish Engineering Product Award, announced the company.
The ECO-Jet catalytic process purportedly reduces up to 95 percent of soot emissions from ships, in addition to reducing poisonous hydrocarbons and heavy metal emissions such as iron and nickel.
The awards are given every year to the product with the highest news value based on substantial technical expertise by Danish technical journal Ingeniøren.
"For many years now, the ship industry has discussed using environmentally friendly fuel," said Topsoe senior scientist Keld Johansen.
"The problem is, however, that the global refinery capacity is still too small to replace bunker fuel.
"That is why we have to treat the exhaust from bunker fuel in another way.
"And with our catalytic process, this is feasible now," he said.
Johansen adds that up till now, maritime authorities have held back from introducing regulations on particle emissions because of the lack of technology able to limit such emissions.
"With ECO-Jet, we have proven that technology is no longer an obstacle," he said.
The process can also be combined with scrubbers in the exhaust system to clean emissions of sulfur oxides (SOx), according to Topsoe.
Earlier this year scrubber sales were predicted to reach $15 billion by 2025.
