Benefits of Continuous Emissions Monitoring

CEMs will become standard equipment in the future and will enable a number of benefits.

1. Some shipping companies require the recording, consolidating and reporting of their annual emissions for their shareholder’s annual report.
2. Method B of the IMO sea water scrubbing guidelines requires CEMs to demonstrate compliance with sulphur scrubbing. The ratio of CO2 to SO2 of 65 is used to demonstrate that the SO2 emission are no more than for ships using a 1.5% S fuel in a SECA. The Krystallon sea water scrubber systems generally have emissions of SO2 in the range of 2ppm to 10ppm even when operating on 3.5%S fuel oil. The emissions is equivalent to using a fuel with less than 0.1% sulphur, thus better than all current international and regional limits.
3. Emissions trading is a scheme whereby ships which reduce their emissions below the regulated limit can trade their “lack of emissions” (emissions credits) with ships or land based emissions sources that are exceeding the regulated limit. In order to enable this very cost efficient and environmentally beneficial scheme emissions needs to be accurately measured and recorded. This is essential if the credits are to have real monetary value.
4. With the massive growth in the shipping industry it is becoming desirable for the industry to demonstrate emission reductions and its contribution to improving ambient air quality. Measurement of emissions across fleets will be essential to demonstrate improvement and avoid unnecessary and more onerous emission regulations.

Krystallon CEMs has been designed with the needs of the modern shipping industry in mind. No additional workload for ship’s crew, long term reliability, highly accurate, demonstrates compliance and for retro-fits are very easy to install. The future is here today.