Innovative Flue Gas Treatment for Maritime SOx Emission Reduction
Thirty years ago Solvay has started to develop a process for flue gas treatment, which is today applied by more than 500 satisfied customers worldwide. In light of IMO regulations for the reduction of SOx emissions on ships, our team investigated how to adapt this well proven land solution to vessels. The first application will be a joint collaboration of Solvay, La Méridionale and Andritz.
Why switch to SOLVAir® Marine?
Be compliant with IMO 2020 regulations and beyond
SOLVAir® Marine solution neutralizes SOx and 99% of particles from your HFO fuel without releasing any effluent back in the sea or in the air. Moreover SOLVAir® Marine facilitates residues treatment on land.
Choose a capital light SOx scrubber system, quick to install and easy to operate
The price gap between HFO and compliant fuel is steadily increasing. This leads us to believe that payback time for our SOLVAir® Marine scrubber system will be very interesting even for the most demanding ship owners.
Take care of your operators and facilitate their jobs
Sodium based, SOLVAir® Marine sorbents can be handled with ease thanks to their characteristic properties of being neutral, non corrosive, non-irritant and non-toxic.
Concentrate on your core business
Thanks to Solvay's global presence, we can provide logistical custom made solution worldwide. Moreover, our dry scrubber is a very simple system, consequently there is a low sensitivity of failure and lower maintenance cost.
How our sulphur oxides removal scrubber system for marine environment works?
SOLVAir® dry Scrubber brings many advantages compared to wet scrubbers
Comparable SOx reduction rate
Higher particle removal rate (> 99 %)
No dry docking required for installation and combination with Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) DeNOX possible
Lower CAPEX and OPEX. Example: less internal power consumption (no pumps for washing water)
Low sensitivity to failure : negligible effect on backpressure to the engine
Smaller effort for maintenance and operation due to simplicity of the process and the neutrality of the sorbent
No effluent released to the sea
Residues treatment on land facilitated
