WAVESTREAM LLOYDS APPROVED BILGE WATER FILTRATION SYSTEM

A development of world-wide importance which prevents oily bilge water being pumped into the sea

Pilot cutters, yachts, fishing boats, superyachts, patrol craft, canal boats, lifeboats, powerboats, and ferries. All risk polluting their surroundings when they pump out their bilges. Bilge water invariably contains fuel oil, lubricating oil and grease which cannot be separated and is dumped into the seas and rivers of the world.

Legislation to prevent this operates in most parts of the world, and is being progressively tightened. The allowable limits for oil in water discharge, currently 15 milligrams per litre, are set by The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships ( MARPOL ), under the secretariat of The International Maritime Organisation, a United Nations agency.

Wavestream ends this. Over the past seven years a new filtration system, based on XOil bonding technology, has been developed for the oil and shipping industries. XOil is a filter material which bonds with oil. It is processed into sheet form and converted into simple filter cartridges which fit easily and neatly into the pipework from bilge pumps. So effective is XOil that each filter cartridge will adsorb 3 times its own weight of oil. So efficient is XOil that even the smallest system will handle 40 litres per minute. So welcome is the technology that the entire BT Global Challenge fleet adopted it. So important is the development that Lloyds Register has given Type Approval to the basic product.

Watermaker protection

The Wavestream filter is ideal for watermaker protection, preventing oils causing fatal damage to delicate reverse osmosis membranes.