Largest scrubber system sets sail
The Norwegian Escape has been fitted with what Yara calls the world’s largest marine SOx scrubber system, with a capacity to clean emissions from 76.8 MW engine power. The vessel also has additional environment protection systems onboard for other pollutants, including ballast waste and bilge water.
“This particular delivery of our small, lightweight scrubber system was special as it is the biggest operating marine scrubber system in the world so far,” said Kai Låtun, chief sales & marketing officer at Yara Marine Technologies.
Yara calls its inline scrubber system a simple and cost-efficient solution to fight air pollution at sea. An inline scrubber is basically a “gas washing machine”, a simple cylinder that replaces the silencer of a ship engine and cleans the exhaust gas, reducing SOx emissions by up to 99%.
Christer Karlsson, Senior Vice President Newbuilding, Norwegian Cruise Line, added: “We are very satisfied with the scrubber system delivery from Yara Marine Technologies. The system performs as guaranteed, compliance test was passed with flying colors and we had full support from Yara Marine Technologies during installation, commissioning and start up,” said
Norwegian Escape is the newest member of the NCL fleet and can carry up to 4,248 passengers and 1,731 crew- members. Diesel consumption at full cruising load is about 11 tonnes per hour, fueling an engine capacity equivalent to about 1,000 cars.
