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Article: BALLAST WATER TREATMENT.
- Article from:
- Marine Log
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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Maritime Solutions, Inc, New York, N.Y., has received funding to support testing of its patent pending ballast water treatment system aboard the 39,000 dwt MarAd Ready Reserve Fleet ship, Cape May.
The Maritime Solutions Ballast Water Treatment System consists of two stages: a first stage patented "voraxial" separator manufactured by Enviro Voraxial Technology, Inc. of Deerfield Beach, Fla., and a second stage treatment of ultraviolet irradiation (UV) manufactured by Aquionics, Inc. Erlanger, Ky., or, alternatively, the chemical biocide Seakleen, developed by Garnett, Inc. of Watkinsville, Ga.
Maritime Solutions believes that UV irradiation is the ...