Introduction to Marinfloc
The Sea
Ever increasing amounts of pollutants and
toxic effluents of various kinds from industries,
agriculture, ships and offshore units end
up in our waters. Current traditional cleaning
techniques cannot cope. By continually contaminating
our resources , supplies of clean water
are diminishing on our planet. Water circulates
constantly in a closed cycle and each time
it becomes more polluted.
Our water today is the same water that
has been in existence since the beginning
of time, but now it contains many substances
originating from sources alien to nature.
The sea is a huge reservoir of nutrients.
All life is dependent on water and all life
has originated from the sea. Water is of
vital importance to plants, animals and
human beings alike. No life can exist without
water; therefore we have to do something
before it is too late. We humans can actually
have an influence on what is discharged
into the sea.
Waste Water
Ships and marine units as offshore installations
have a continuous interchange with the sea.
Drinking water is extracted from the sea
by distillation and/or reverse osmosis.
In return we discharge inadequately purified
bilge water, grey water and sewage (black
water). Is this acceptable?
Time for Waste
The strength of MARINFLOC AB is our long
experience in marine engineering. For many
years we worked with traditional cleaning
methods, which do not function satisfactorily
and are very time consuming. An engineer's
duty is first and foremost to be responsible
for maintaining operations, where the main
focus is on the propulsion machinery and
its ancillary equipment.
With today's demands for efficiency and
economy there is "no time for waste"
and nowadays there are greater requirements
than ever for technology that really works
along these lines. Our dissatisfaction with
the present situation pushed us to develop
a revolutionary cleaning technique under
the name of MARINFLOC.
MARINFLOC
We have taken note of the requirements
for improved cleaning techniques that have
been put forward, both from environmental
and economical points of view and our field
of interest is solely wastewater. We have
taken the liberty to specialize in this
area in order to protect the environment,
while at the same time giving the marine
sector an economically viable solution for
the handling of wastewater, which can be
very costly with the outdated technology
today, or rather yesterdays.
Our products have been developed onboard
ships during many years and now we venture
to say that we have come up with the solution,
which consists of two key elements: One
is flocculation and the other the knowledge
of how this is done. We deliver both the
equipment and the know-how.
Revolutionary?
The flocculation technique is perhaps not
revolutionary as the principle is well-known
and has been used for a long time on land
based treatment plants. Using heat treatment,
gravimetric separation and the flocculation
technique, we have created a system adapted
for marine use. This means cramped conditions
in combination with the movement of the
Sea. This assumes that our equipment can
be delivered either as a turnkey skid or
as a tailor-made solution.
We undertake both reconstruction and new
installations.
Do YOU meet the current IMO regulations?
IMO Regulations 1.1.3
1.1.3 It should be understood that a gravitational
filtering equipment cannot be expected to
be effective over the complete range of
oils which might be carried on board ship,
nor can it deal satisfactorily with oil
of very high relative density or with a
mixture
presented to it as an emulsion. Cleansing
agents used for cleaning purposes in machinery
spaces may cause these emulsions in bilge
water.
To avoid this, only those cleansing agents
which do not affect the performance of the
equipment should be used, and care should
be taken that the bilge water is fed to
the filtering equipment after the emulsion
has broken.
Considering that not all designs of equipment
are affected in the same way by cleansing
agents, the manufacturers of filtering and
monitoring equipment should supply recommendations
concerning the use of cleansing agents,
and these recommendations should be followed
in shipboard practice.
MEPC 33/20/Add.1 Annex 10
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The objective of Marinfloc AB is to install
their products on ships,
off shore units and also in ports, shipyards
etc.on a world-wide basis. We have just
started! We can supply you with wastewater
treatment systems that actually work, are
economically sound and protect the environment.
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