The Marine Industry has slowly embraced emission regulations to reduce harmful SOx emissions. New restrictions went into effect from January 1, 2020, further reducing the sulfur limit to 0.50% globally in fuel oils onboard ships. Vessels are subject to existing restrictions of 0.10% sulfur content in designated Emission Control Areas (ECA).
Ships have 3 options to meet the emission requirements. They can either use compliant low sulfur fuel, switch to alternate fuel such as LNG, or install an exhaust gas scrubber. The cost of low sulfur fuel is significantly higher than high sulfur fuel. In contrast, the initial investment for alternative fuels such as LNG is extremely high, leaving exhaust gas scrubbers as the only cost-effective and compliant option.
Viswa Scrubbers specializes in developing the scrubber based on the client needs and space available. Viswa Scrubbers uses scrubber design principles to adapt to the client needs, uses scrubber configuration and proprietary internals along with material expertise and corrosion prevention technologies for creating scrubbers that can work in a wide range of industries.
Exhaust gas scrubber installation can help ships meet the emission requirements while providing cost benefits for the owners. The ROI of exhaust gas scrubbers can be seen as soon as 18 months.
Viswa Scrubbers spends time in selection, design and integration of a specific set of proprietary internal components. These internals of the scrubber are chosen to improving scrubbing efficiency and to reduce the liquid load in these exhaust gas scrubbers. At Viswa Scrubbers, scrubber systems consisting of scrubbers, pipes, and proprietary internals, are delivered as modularized installations which are skid-mounted, with required expertise in pressure vessel configuration, metallurgy selection, corrosion protection strategies, coatings, and painting systems appropriate for highly corrosive exhaust gas and washwater service.
With 30 years of experience in the Industry, The Viswa Group provides unique and innovative scrubbers for the Marine Industry.
The Viswa Group has been a reliable and proven partner in the Marine Industry since 1991. The Viswa Group has designed, fabricated, installed, and successfully commissioned scrubbers on all types of vessels, including tankers, bulk carriers, chemical carriers, and container vessels of all sizes, from MR tankers to VLCC’s.
Our scrubbers are designed to:
At The Viswa Group, we ensure that our scrubbers perform efficiently throughout the vessel’s lifetime.