New product for monitoring emissions in shipping

The GAS 222.15-MA mod­el by Büh­ler Tech­nolo­gies is a new, inno­v­a­tive prod­uct to improve emis­sions mon­i­tor­ing in shipping.

In the inter­est of pro­tect­ing the envi­ron­ment, mon­i­tor­ing emis­sions in ship­ping is gain­ing impor­tance. Here the ini­tial focus is on large-scale emit­ters such as cruise ships, con­tain­er ships and tankers.

Depend­ing on the fuel qual­i­ty, in addi­tion to CO2 and H2O, these ships emit a mix of var­i­ous pol­lu­tants. Sim­i­lar to large com­bus­tion plants, gas analy­sis in mar­itime appli­ca­tions also serves mon­i­tor­ing pol­lu­tant emis­sions as well as con­trol­ling the com­bus­tion process.

Büh­ler Tech­nolo­gies is one of the world­wide lead­ing sup­pli­ers of gas analy­sis com­po­nents and sys­tems. How­ev­er, mar­itime appli­ca­tions pose addi­tion­al require­ments with respect to equip­ment and com­po­nents com­pared to sta­tion­ary appli­ca­tions. For exam­ple, although the hulls are cer­tain­ly designed for the spe­cif­ic require­ments with respect to strength, much like the ele­ment they trav­el, they are nev­er at rest. Due to the water move­ment and par­tic­u­lar­ly the run­ning machines, the entire ship is always more or less vibrat­ing. Some­times even at the mul­ti­ple of grav­i­ta­tion­al accel­er­a­tion. There’s a good rea­son why the marine and off-shore sec­tor require cer­ti­fied products.

Anoth­er require­ment is based on the mois­ture in the ambi­ent air. In addi­tion to oth­er extrac­tive gas analy­sis com­po­nents, Büh­ler Tech­nolo­gies has now devel­oped a probe approved for this appli­ca­tion. The 15-MA ver­sion of the GAS 222 series meets the broad­er require­ments yet still offers the well-known ben­e­fits such as tool­less fil­ter change and very com­pact size. With the new­ly designed insu­la­tion and the con­ve­nient ter­mi­nal box, the pro­tec­tion class was raised to IP 66.