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Further testing for Ecospec’s system in Canada

Singapore: Singaporean firm Ecospec has provided an update on the emissions abatement system installed on one of Canada Steamship Lines’s (CSL) Great Lake carriers.

“The CSNOx is first of its kind system designed to abate three gases in one process that operates in both closed loop and freshwater conditions,” Ecospec maintains. The series of phase I tests carried out in 2012 were aimed primarily at optimizing the efficiency of the sulfur oxide (SOx) reductions. The system has been running for hundreds of operating hours in an economy mode with confirmed reductions of SOx. The system is also capable of reducing Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) concurrently. Formal performance measurements of these two gases will be carried out during phase II tests to be done in 2013, once the SOx removal process has been optimized.

“It is expected that the operating SOx only mode will cater in a cost efficient manner to the current market conditions and surpass the present International Maritime Organization (IMO) emission requirements,” Ecospec stated in a release.  [16/01/13]

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