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Alfa Laval: Lower Fuel Prices Have Not Changed Interest in Waste Fuel Recovery System
Alfa Laval on Wednesday said that its PureDry waste fuel recovery system, designed to enable ship owners and operators to reuse the HFO fraction of waste oil, is still seeing interest despite the recent decline in fuel prices.
"When we developed PureDry, fuel savings were in focus 100 percent, but customers are just as interested in PureDry now that fuel prices have dropped." says Pauli Kujala, Senior Business Manager at Alfa Laval.
The system can return the equivalent of as much as 1-2 percent of a vessel's fuel consumption, according to Alfa Laval, with the fuel that the PureDry system recovers said to meet ISO 8217 specification.
The fuel is returned directly to a vessel's bunker tank, while all of the water is sent to the bilge water treatment system.
However the firm says recovering fuel is not the only reason customers are buying the system, with the ability to minimise sludge "reason enough for some customers to buy it."
"Simply put, removing fuel from waste oil has advantages we never envisioned from the start," says Kujala.
"Many vessels today get rid of their waste oil by pumping it onto receiving barges, which is yet another messy procedure for the crew to deal with. PureDry eliminates this procedure and all of its drawbacks."
After the fuel and water are separated, Alfa Laval says 5-10 kg per day of super-dry solids remain, which must be landed as dry waste or incinerated.
"The super-dry solids are the suspended solids that comprise around 1 percent of the waste oil, and everything else is 100% eliminated," Kujala says.
"In an integrated system with Alfa Laval PureBilge, all of the oily waste streams are dried up. The oil is gone, the water is gone. There's nothing to pump and virtually nothing to dispose of."
Earlier this month Alfa Laval also announced it had patented a scrubber wash water cleaning process.
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| VLSFO | MGO | |||
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| $/mt | +/- | $/mt | +/- | |
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| Rotterdam | 602.00 | 0.50 | 748.00 | 6.00 |
| Houston | 624.00 | 5.00 | 792.00 | 3.50 |
| Fujairah | 649.50 | 2.00 | 898.00 | 3.00 |
| Global 20 Ports Average | 662.00 | 2.00 | 855.00 | 1.50 |
| Global 4 Ports Average | 631.00 | 1.00 | 804.00 | 0.50 |
| Global Average Bunker Price | 717.50 | 0.50 | 913.50 | 1.00 |
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