Ballast Water Treatment

We supply the power needed for safe and efficient ballast water management – even when the sea is rough.

A major concern when super tankers and other vessels travel around the world is microorganisms hitching a ride and causing havoc when released into a new environment. We help you free your ballast water from any harmful aquatic organisms before it is pumped out. KraftPowercon has a long history within electrochemical processes. This is also true for a marine industry and its very specific and challenging conditions where power supply must work faultlessly, even at sea.

We are the heart of your system

Just like our muscles and vital organs need oxygen to function, a ballast water treatment system needs electricity to be operable. That is where we come in. Our rectifiers supply your ballast water treatment system with the energy needed to operate – guaranteeing an unparalleled power supply that works even in the harshest conditions.

The power supply system and the electrolytic cell are like the heart and muscles of the human body. The heart pumps out energy to the muscles and the rectifier feeds energy to the electrolytic cell. If the rectifier stops, the BWTS suffers a heart attack.

The video shows an inline system where all the water runs through the cell. There are also so-called Side Stream Systems that are actually more common. The difference between these two systems is that with a Side Stream System, only a small percentage of the water flows through the electrical cells, but a higher concentration of sodium hypochlorite is produced to suffice to the total flow.

The rectifier is designed for electrochlorination ballast water treatment systems and is one of the four main components. The other three being the filter, the cell and the control system.

 

Ballast Water Treatment

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2024.03.15

Here is another post by Pablo Rodas-Martini written for KraftPowercon Marine, on the impact of hull fouling on hull corrosion. The following are the first three opening paragraphs. "What else is intriguing in the 'corro...
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2024.02.29

"How can slime, algae or barnacles on a ship's hull cause hull corrosion? Does fouling cause hull corrosion? Nope and... Yep!" "The answer is tricky because hull fouling itself does not cause corrosion (that's the no)...
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2024.02.21

What is the main difference between ballast water and hull fouling, apart from the obvious fact that ballast water is carried inside the ship and hull fouling mainly grows outside? So begins Pablo Rodas-Martini's article...
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2024.01.25

"Which of the two - ballast water or hull fouling - has spread more invasive species to new marine ecosystems? Although there are many studies and scientific papers on the impact of each, or the combined impact of the tw...
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2024.01.10

Below are a few paragraphs from Pablo Rodas-Martini's latest post. In this case, he is writing about fouling, a subject closely related to ballast water, on which he has written almost 40 posts (short articles, actually)...
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2023.12.21

Today we have a special post. This is how Pablo Rodas-Martini begins his 37th and final post of this year on ballast water, a critical issue for the shipping industry: "As I have been writing about ballast water, inv...
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2023.12.07

"The clock is ticking: in 278 days, almost 50,000 ships must be fitted with ballast water management systems (BWMS)! The current number of installations, including pending retrofits and newbuildings, is still far from th...
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2023.11.22

1) Ballast water test methods do not allow for establishing a more stringent or "no detectable organisms" standard. 2) There is a need for multiple BWMS compliance options. These are the two main conclusions that P...
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2023.11.15

"The first of two critical meetings took place. I expected many difficult questions about the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ballast water proposal, but to my surprise, after a few minutes, there was only one. ...
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2023.11.02

"The next few weeks will be critical for ballast water discussions in the U.S. On October 18, 2023, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a Supplemental Notice to the Vessel Incidental Discharge National...
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