Mitsubishi Shipbuilding has team up with Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) to target the exhaust gas scrubber market.
The two Japanese companies are offering shipowners a sulphur abatement system being marketed under the brand name ‘Active Funnel’.
It is literally a funnel which contains an optimally shaped exhaust gas scrubbing structure capable of meeting the new IMO 2020 requirements.
The system is said to have been developed by combining MHPS’ exhaust gas treatment technologies cultivated through providing desulfurization systems for thermal power plants with Mitsubishi Shipbuilding's marine engineering expertise.
MHPS’ land-based flue gas desulfurization systems are claimed to have the capacity to treat the equivalent of 7 to 20 times the emissions of a large size marine diesel engine.
The Mitsubishi companies say the ‘Active Funnel’ is currently most suited for very large container ships with high exhaust gas emissions and limited installation space.
However, there are plans to expand the product line-up to include scrubber systems suitable for VLCCs and VLOCs.
