MS Timbus

Braren, the company owning the ship, based in Kollmar, Germany has made a container ship available to Couple Systems for a pilot project. After a two year period of research and development, the first DryEGCS^® made by Couple Systems has been installed onboard the MV Timbus by Motorenwerke Bremerhaven during October 2009. MV Timbus is a cargo ship transporting cellulose from Sweden to Germany and Holland.

It is a 99.9 m vessel with a gross tonnage of 6389 tdw powered by a MaK 8M32 engine with 3850 kW @ 600 rpm. For the trial period the system cleans app. 35 % of the exhaust gas volume produced at 100 % MCR.

It is planned to upgrade the system to treat 100 % of the exhaust gas volume later in the year 2010.

During a two-week period in November 2009 the first emission tests were conducted and operated by the Technical University of Hamburg. Several analyses demonstrated a SOx reduction of more than 99 %. Hereupon the classification society Germanischer Lloyd has been instructed to run the exhaust gas measurement according to MARPOL 73/78 Annex VI, & MEPC. 184(59) in December 2009.

The results of this report confirmed the values measured by the Technical University of Hamburg. In April 2010 the “Notice of Compliance” for the DryEGCS^® was issued by Germanischer Lloyd, which has made this system the second certified SOx abatement unit in the world and the first system been installed downstream the main engine. Since November 2009 the system has proven its liability and efficiency during more than 3000 operating hours.