Marine exhaust scrubbing
SOx and NOx removal from ship exhaust
Tested under controlled conditions. The level records the highest step reached, with the year.
The problem
Ships have to cut the sulphur content of their exhaust. Scrubbers do the job, but the best of them consume 2 to 3 per cent of engine power and can stand 10 metres tall and 2 to 4 metres wide per exhaust line.
What the Lynx separator does
The Lynx separator makes the scrubbing step smaller by removing liquid and particles from the exhaust flow.
A smaller unit is what makes a retrofit realistic on a ship that is already in service.
The design scales up. For ship exhaust it was drawn for outlets up to 6 metres in diameter.
Who is already in
INVENTAS and MAROFF
Project partners from 2014
A project with INVENTAS AS under the MAROFF programme for maritime activities and offshore operations, to study a compact SOx and NOx removal step for ships.
What happened, and when
- The project with INVENTAS and MAROFF started on 12 May 2014.
- On 29 September 2015 diesel exhaust was cleaned in a trial at the EagleBurgmann Norway laboratory. Exhaust deposits collected from an offshore site were diluted into water and sprayed directly into the separator.
- The trial used the scaled-down Lynx 150, a unit built for very small liquid volumes. It separated all particles and liquid, and let only clean gas through.
- The Norwegian Research Council profiled the technology in the DEMO 2000 publication Technology Efforts of the Century in 2014.
- Chemical Engineering magazine covered the separator in October 2015, under the title A new spin on liquid-gas separation.
- Innovation Norway profiled the application in The Explorer in 2019.
Evidence in the archive
- 12 May 2014Project partnership with MAROFF and INVENTAS to develop Exhaust Scrubber Systems
- 18 September 2014Lynx Scrubber technology profiled in NRC’s DEMO 2000 publication “Technology Efforts of the Century”
- 29 September 2015Lynx successfully cleans diesel exhaust gas
- 26 October 2015A new spin on liquid-gas separation
- 9 November 2015Developing the Lynx Separator for Cleaning Ship Emissions
- 23 January 2016Filtering the Fumes – InnSep AS talks about filtering emissions from ships
- 15 February 2019Black Carbon, the new health risk
Get in touch
Contact
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