Scaling of Ballast Water Treatment Systems

With our extensive expertise and knowledge of water environments, we offer two types of services for the evaluation of ballast water systems:

• highly reliable independent verifications of scaled-up Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models (including the use of in-house experimental data)
• optimisation of scaled-up designs to improve performance

Ballast water modelling is characterised by many parameters and approximations. A proper selection of these and their evaluation require a broad multidisciplinary knowledge which may not always be available to Ballast Water Treatment Systems (BWTS) manufacturers.

Combining our knowledge on possible variations of ballast water composition, UV technology, organisms inactivation and CFD, we can address the uncertainties faced by BWTS manufacturers. We are also able to carry out uncertainty analyses by running a large number of scenarios. This helps to give our clients a high level of confidence in their scaled up BWTS design before submission of their documentation for type approval.