Ballast Water Treatment System
Description
BIO-SEA® by BIO-UV is the first only system developed and manufactured in France for treatment of ballast water in compliance with IMO D-2 discharge standard and USCG regulation.The system first cleans ballast water using a screen filter, in order to reduce the amount of total suspended particles, present in all types of waters. The filter size will be dependent on the system size according to the ballast pump flow rate.Then UV stage of the treatment takes place in a single UV lamp reactor (chemical free). It inactivates the microorganisms present in the water (bacteria, phytoplankton, zooplankton). When ballasting, both operations of filtration and UV disinfection are carried out.
When deballasting, only the operation of UV disinfection is completed. This allows re-treating the water that stayed in the ship’s ballast tanks during voyage, in order to eliminate the possible biological recontamination, to ensure compliance with the IMO standard and USCG regulation. The entire operation of the BIO-SEA® system is automated (valves opening and closing, filter cleaning, UV intensity regulation in order to apply the correct UV dose, stripping mode) to treat all types of waters.