CROE wins USA scrubber contract

CROE scrubbers are designed to help shippers meet both the 0.1% sulphur equivalency requirement in European and North America Emission Control Areas (ECAs) that came into effect on January 2015 and the global 0.5% sulphur equivalency rules that will be enforced in January 2020.

As with the 0.1% sulphur ECAs, the global 0.5% requirement will present shipping companies with the choice of using more expensive low sulphur fuel or using alternative technologies such as scrubbing systems.

Allied Shipbroking called marine scrubbing technology, the ‘fastest and cheapest’ way to reduce harmful diesel fuel emissions to meet the stringent International Maritime Association (IMO) compliance requirements for the shipping industry.

CROE’s ship exhaust gas cleaning technology is available in three standard configurations – open-loop, closed-loop and hybrid. The systems are in-line and normally replace the silencers. They are suitable for both newbuilds and retrofilts and can be configured as single stream or multi-stream.

Currently CROE systems are installed or in the process of being installed on more than 150 ships. All scrubbing systems will enter commercial operations during 2019 and will be ready for operation when the IMO Global Sulphur Cap comes into full effect on 1 January 2020.