The offshore industry acknowledges its obligations regarding the environment and engineers are searching for sustainable solutions that reduce the ecological footprint. Bawat presents a simple, yet efficient BWMS technology based on pasteurization.
Pasteurization was invented by French scientist Louis Pasteur in 1862. Pasteur discovered that heating beverages was enough to kill most of the bacteria that caused spoilage, preventing these beverages from turning sour. Today, pasteurization is still used widely in the dairy industry and other food processing industries to achieve food preservation and food safety.
Bawat BWMS is based on unique patented technology, that represents maybe the simplest solution to an ecological and regulatory issue within the international shipping industry.
The heart of the Bawat system is the pasteurizing unit. Here, the ballast water is heated to a certain temperature via plate heat exchangers. Depending on the treatment temperature applied, ballast water is kept at this elevated temperature for a short period. The combination of elevated temperature and retention time in the pasteurizing unit ensures efficient elimination of all living organisms.
Within the regeneration section of the unit, the already treated ballast water pre-heats the in-coming water resulting in low power requirements and high energy efficiency.