- The France-based UV water treatment specialist received UV water treatment in December following the successful completion of tests under DNV supervision.
- BIO-UV Group received IMO approval for the BIO-SEA M-Series in September 2021.
- the BIO-SEA M-Series system has been specifically designed to optimise the footprint and installation costs of a medium-flow rate ballast water treatment system.
As per an article by Riviera The new BIO-SEA M-Series ballast water treatment system (BWTS), BIO-UV Group introduced last year has received type-approval certification from the US Coast Guard (USCG).
Approvals and certifications
The France-based UV water treatment specialist received USCG certification in December following the successful completion of tests under DNV supervision. The classification society also evaluated and approved all technical documentation and paperwork.
BIO-UV Group received IMO approval for the BIO-SEA M-Series in September 2021.
BIO-SEA by BIO-UV Group BWT project manager Charlène Ceresola said, “Technically, the core components and disinfection performance of the M-Series are identical to the B-Series, which received IMO approval in 2017 and USCG type-approval in 2018. But because we have designed a new reactor, we needed an updated type-approval certificate.”
Ms Ceresola explained, “The previously approved B-Series incorporates a mono-lamp reactor, and several ‘B’ reactors need to be mounted in parallel to reach high treatment rates. This requires specific manifolds for hydraulic balance, which can take a significant footprint.”
“The new BIO-SEA M-Series, however, is based on multi-lamp reactors, equipped with two-to-seven lamps in a single chamber, allowing a more compact design for the same capacity of treatment. A maximum of two reactors are installed in parallel,” she explained.
About the M-series system
Unveiled in June 2021, the BIO-SEA M-Series system has been specifically designed to optimise the footprint and installation costs of a medium-flow rate ballast water treatment system.
The M-Series incorporates fewer UV lamps and has the lowest height requirement of any other UV-based system in the market. Biodosimetric testing also confirmed that an equal or higher UV dose can be achieved using the ‘M’ reactor compared with the earlier design. Environmental testing, completed at Force Technology’s facility in Denmark, verified the reactor’s robustness, design and usability in a marine environment, especially with regards to vibration.
“Certification is vitally important to shipowners in the BWTS decision-making process,” said BIO-SEA by BIO-UV Group technical director Florian Cortes, “With this new certification, the USCG has confirmed the high-performance capability of our third-generation BWTS UV reactor.”
“The development of the ‘M’ reactor allows shipowners looking for a medium-flow rate BWTS to benefit from BIO-UV group’s proprietary UV water treatment technology,” said Mr Cortes.
As of January 2022, the BIO-UV Group has an order book of over 100 BIO-SEA units, almost twice as many as the corresponding period last year.
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Source: Riviera
