The spacecraft was equipped with air scrubbers, but the scrubbers could get saturated like a used cigarette filter.
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He said uptake of scrubbers was being impacted by shipowners comparing installing scrubbers with switching to lower sulphur fuels.
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The outlook for scrubbers has also been clouded by a move by several major ports to ban discharges from open-loop scrubbers.
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Banning open-loop scrubbers means shippers will have to switch to a closed-loop scrubbers system or to use low-sulphur bunker fuels.
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Wartsila installed 93-29 scrubbers last year, accounting for about a third of the market, and Jenssen said that fitting 21,20.8133-3,000 ships with scrubbers by 2020 is "doable".
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Manisha Mathur, head of procurement at ferry-operator DFDS, said scrubbers made financial sense for the company, adding that going forward at least 66% of its fleet will have scrubbers.
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Data from Norwegian risk management and certification company DNV GL shows there will be a total of 2,693 ships running with scrubbers by the end of 2019 - based on current orders and over 80 percent of them will be open loop devices, compared with 15 percent using hybrid scrubbers and 2 percent opting for closed loop scrubbers.
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Vitol has opted to install scrubbers on its bigger ships.
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Weir said Trafigura has invested in 36 tankers with scrubbers.
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Scrubbers remove most chemical pollutants before releasing steam into the air.
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Shipowners can meet the rules by installing "scrubbers", but these are expensive.
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Lower HSFO prices however have made scrubbers more economically attractive to shippers.
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A ban on all types of scrubbers is also proposed, the official added.
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Global trading firm Trafigura has ordered scrubbers for its fleet of 32 ships.
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The International Energy Agency said on Wednesday that there has not been enough investment in scrubbers and it is worried about the market's ability to meet demand for the low-sulphur marine fuel that will be needed by ships without scrubbers.
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Open-loop scrubbers are the cheapest option, but they have come under criticism as they wash heavy metals and sulfur from the waste water into seas instead of storing it for a controlled discharge in ports, as closed-loop scrubbers do.
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There are also hybrid scrubbers with a loop that can be open or closed.
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Algae CO2 scrubbers freshen air and provide useful byproducts in this sustainable, circular economy.
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If they don't change fuel, they must install exhaust-gas cleaning systems commonly called scrubbers.
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Wood Mackenzie estimates just 2 percent of the global fleet will have scrubbers by 2020.
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By 2020, around 22008,240 ships will be fitted with scrubbers, on the most recent estimate.
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Apparently, they were shutting the scrubbers down—or— She stared at her camera's spectrographic readout.
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They also fear the IMO rules could change again and ban open loop scrubbers altogether.
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Some experts say there will be enough low sulphur fuel available to avoid fitting scrubbers.
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Its scrubbers order book is filled well into the first quarter of 2020, Erixon said.
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Analysts at JBC warn that less than 5 percent of the global fleet will add scrubbers.
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The IMO encouraged member states in February to research the impact of scrubbers on the environment.
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Some of the worst wastewater is discharged by "wet scrubbers," which remove pollutants from smokestack emissions.
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Another issue with the scrubbers: what happens to the dirty stuff pulled out of the exhaust.
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Scrubbers use water to clean up fuel emissions, preventing them from being released into the atmosphere.
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Closed-loop scrubbers, which store wash water for later discharge, are still accepted in most ports.
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The executive also said "a tiny percentage" of COSCO Shipping's fleet have installed sulphur-stripping scrubbers.
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Ships with expensive equipment that clean sulphur, known as scrubbers, will be allowed to continue burning HSFO.
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It's previously experimented with a self-serve kiosk, self-driving floor scrubbers, and AI-powered shopping apps.
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Big shipping lines such as Denmark's Maersk, which can afford scrubbers or pricier fuels, support the changes.
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Even better: The scrubbers EnviroCorp sold would be carbon-negative—literally sucking CO2 out of the air.
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Tan said Singapore would provide facilities for the collection of residue generated from the operation of scrubbers.
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The MPA's move could be a setback for shippers bunkering in Singapore that have invested in scrubbers.
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Scrubbers can cost $5 million to $10 million apiece including installation, according to the Energy Intelligence group.
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Those controls, called scrubbers, remove millions of tons a year of a pollutant blamed for respiratory disease.
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They wanted the utility to simply add emission-control features known as scrubbers to reduce carbon pollution.
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Closed-loop scrubbers keep most of the water used for sulfur removal onboard for disposal at port.
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By 240, about 250,212 ships could have scrubbers, according to Wartsila, SEB Bank and industry analyst AlphaTanker.
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The lab uses several devices to simulate pollution control equipment in place at a utility, such as scrubbers.
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The video editing option, meanwhile, has built-in scrubbers that let you edit the length of the Clip.
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Some 22020 scrubbers were installed or confirmed this year, nearly double the 20173 reported in 22017, it said.
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For example, in Georgia, all the largest coal power plants have installed scrubbers or converted to natural gas.
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Only ships with expensive kits that clean sulphur, known as scrubbers, will be allowed to continue burning HSFO.
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It fits sponges, but it also has a silicone brush holder that pops out to accommodate larger scrubbers.
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The robots are used to conduct safety checks, and other tests, on tanks, boilers, scrubbers, pipes and more.
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"That is reason enough to cap emissions," added Koniordos, whose firm makes scrubbers used to clean exhaust emissions.
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China last month banned discharges from open-loop scrubbers across all rivers and ports along its coastline from Jan.
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None of the traders said they would invest in scrubbers, including Gunvor, which is bulking up its shipping division.
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This was a method used in the 225s to help coal plants buy scrubbers to mop up air pollution.
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The IMO's consultants forecast that around 3,800 ships would be fitted with scrubbers by the start of January 163.
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Oklahoma Gas and Electric is converting the state's largest coal plant to natural gas and adding scrubbers to another.
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Tonight, all across the northeast, there'd be data collected near EnviroCorp scrubbers to see what, exactly, they were hiding.
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Companies that invested in open loop scrubbers will be unable to use them while sailing through those port waters.
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Bryan Comer, a senior researcher at ICCT, said the use of scrubbers by cruise ships is a particular concern.
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"About half of the world's roughly 20203 cruise ships have or will soon have scrubbers installed," said Mr Comer.
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"Ships fitted with hybrid scrubbers will be required to switch to the closed-loop mode of operation," Tan said.
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The plant lacks both scrubbers for sulfur oxides and what is known as selective catalytic reduction for nitrogen oxides.
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By next February, it expects to have autonomous floor scrubbers in 5003,2500 of its more than 21,2200 US stores.
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Of the roughly 23,228 vessels worldwide, industry consultants estimate only 3% to 5% are likely to have scrubbers by 2020.
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He added that the company had concerns about clarity surrounding the banning of certain types of scrubbers at some ports.
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Of the roughly 23,000 vessels worldwide, industry consultants estimate only 3% to 5% are likely to have scrubbers by 2020.
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Of the roughly 60,000 vessels worldwide, industry consultants estimate only 3% to 5% are likely to have scrubbers by 2020.
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The eerie and distinctive pale crimson glow of the plant's carbon scrubbers surrounded the complex in a mile-wide orb.
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REGULATORY UNCERTAINTY Initial research to date into the environmental impact of open loop scrubbers has produced a range of results.
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This follows a previous order for 15 scrubbers from the company which owns or leases a total of 109 tankers.
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He constructs tiny transmission towers from the bristles of toothbrushes and nail-scrubbers, and weaves gossamer cranes from sock thread.
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"She added: "Scrubbers are effectively cheat devices in that they satisfy environmental legislation, while allowing ships to continue to pollute.
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In January, the UAE's Port of Fujairah announced a ban on the use of open-loop scrubbers in its waters.
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This week, Walmart (WMT) announced it would bring robotic floor scrubbers to 360 stores by the end of the year.
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Walmart and malls operated by the Simon Property Group are using self-driving floor scrubbers that have a steering wheel, a cushy seat and even a cup holder — features that give the impression that these scrubbers are meant for humans settling in for a long shift of floor washing with a coffee at their side.
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It also burns much cleaner, so the expensive scrubbers and bag houses required to capture coal's bad residuals are not necessary.
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Shipownes can also install costly exhaust gas cleaning kits called "scrubbers" that allows them to continue burning cheaper high-sulphur fuels.
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In September Mr Coolen stood atop a steel grate in the processing plant, the platform shaking as giant scrubbers churned beneath.
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In response, the committee appointed a team to assess the available evidence relating to the environmental impact of discharges from scrubbers.
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Scrubbers, which reduce sulfur content of fuel on-board ships, are seen as an alternative to buying more expensive, cleaner fuel.
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"You're not going to build enough new refining equipment nor add enough scrubbers" to meet initial requirements for VLSFO, he said.
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But other sources, like vehicles, power plants, and agriculture, can cut particulates by electrifying, using scrubbers, or employing dust mitigation tactics.
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The furbo wonders who in the environment department may have a brother-in-law with a fat contract to supply chimney scrubbers.
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The rule affects about 3 million barrels a day of heavy bunker fuel, which ships must stop using or use with scrubbers.
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Open-loop scrubbers use seawater to capture sulphur from engine exhausts before discharging this "wash water" back into the ocean after treatment.
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However, if no vessels added scrubbers and all ships complied with the rules, the spike could be as high as $60 billion.
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New regulations will require shipowners to install exhaust gas cleaning systems ( "scrubbers") or switch to using ultra-low sulphur fuels from Jan.
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Vessels that do not install scrubbers, will be required to buy fuel certified as containing less than 0.5 percent sulfur from Jan.
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The big margin between gasoil and high-sulfur fuel prices is necessary to ensure at least some vessel owners switch to scrubbers.
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By stripping out sulfur emissions, scrubbers allow shippers to use dirtier fuel oil but still meet new global requirements for lower emissions.
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Vessel operators can either switch to cleaner, but more expensive, marine gasoil or install scrubbers to filter sulphur from dirtier fuel oil.
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Open-loop scrubbers use seawater to capture sulfur from engine exhausts before discharging this "wash water" back into the ocean after treatment.
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A major shake-up for the all shipping companies, dry bulk vessels will be the sector with the largest proportion of scrubbers.
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It depends on where you plan to put it, but options range from small shoe-scrubbers to room-sized indoor-outdoor rugs.
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Only ships fitted with sulfur-cleaning devices, known as scrubbers, will be allowed to continue burning high-sulfur fuel, under IMO regulations.
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Open-loop scrubbers use seawater to capture sulfur from engine exhausts before discharging this wash water back into the ocean after treatment.
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"The benefits of open-loop scrubbers are largely realized in open water during transit from one port to the next," he said.
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It has so far announced plans to install so-called "scrubbers" on 20 of its vessels, including two new tankers being built.
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"The big question is, obviously, if shipowners are going to equip their ships with scrubbers," said Torbjorn Tornqvist, chief executive of Gunvor Group.
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At the same time, the act introduced scrubbers that clean the gases passing through power plant smokestacks, reducing the formation of acid rain.
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"The price is reasonable, and they are (fitted) with scrubbers so ... I think it's cheap," Frontline Chief Executive Robert Hvide Macleod told Reuters.
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Under the IMO rules, only ships fitted with sulphur-cleaning devices known as scrubbers will be allowed to continue burning high-sulphur fuel.
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The gloves feature silicone scrubbers that will clean hard-to-reach areas on pots and pans while being gentle on glassware or cookware.
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Ivar Hansson Myklebust, chief executive with Hoegh Autoliners, said at a recent Marine Money conference the vehicle transporter was not ordering any scrubbers.
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Under the IMO rules, only ships fitted with sulfur-cleaning devices known as scrubbers will be allowed to continue burning high-sulfur fuel.
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The mini-bottles of shampoo, conditioner, and shower wash, as well as body scrubbers, combs, and nail files, were scattered throughout the bathroom.
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While many Fredriksen ships have installed scrubbers, the majority of his fleet of more than 200 ships will need the scarcer compliant fuels.
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Between 5% to 10% of the ships that Cargill charters will be fitted with scrubbers and the remainder will use low-sulphur fuel.
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The cost of installing scrubbers is about $3 million to $10 million, said Anil Rajguru, vice president of process safety at Fluor Corp.
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Shippers can switch to low-sulfur fuels, installing scrubbers that remove exhaust from high sulfur fuels or switch to cleaner liquefied natural gas.
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But the scrubbers discharge these and other pollutants into the ocean instead, and they've been banned by seven countries and several U.S. states.
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The hairstylist and artist Julien d'Ys's headpieces, which also appeared in the runway show, were made of pot scrubbers from a Paris supermarket.
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The IMO says it will ban ships that do not have scrubbers from carrying any fuel oil, making it easier to catch cheaters.
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To comply, many power plants were outfitted with technology known as scrubbers to remove mercury from the emissions before they leave the smokestack.
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The ban on water discharge from so-called open-loop scrubbers is part of an effort to prepare for International Maritime Organization (IMO) rules that will ban ships from using fuel oil with a sulphur content of more than 0.5 percent from 2020, compared with 3.5 percent now, unless they are equipped with exhaust "scrubbers" to clean up sulphur emissions.
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Each path requires years of planning and millions in investment, either for vessel owners to add scrubbers or for refineries to produce cleaner fuel.
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"We don't believe that those who have invested in scrubbers will achieve the amazing returns they have been advertising," said Pellumbi at CF Partners.
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Only ships fitted with sulphur-cleaning devices, known as scrubbers, will be allowed to continue burning high-sulphur fuel, according to the IMO regulations.
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The plan banned new coal-burning facilities (though plants already in the works were allowed) and sped up the use of filters and scrubbers.
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The plan banned new coal-burning capacity (though plants already in the works were allowed) and sped up the use of filters and scrubbers.
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He told her he'd noticed some strange readings that may indicate a significant amount of carbon dioxide was actually escaping through EnviroCorp's carbon scrubbers.
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The trees would provide some cover, but as long as the scrubbers were running, everything around her was bathed in a pale red glow.
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The open loop scrubbers wash out the sulphur and some industry experts believe they are the cheapest way to meet the new global rules.
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I wait for a nice day each May, take my pink cleaning bucket out of the closet and fill it with sponges and scrubbers.
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IHS Markit's Barrow estimates that perhaps 600,000 barrels a day of the higher sulfur fuel will continued to be used by ships with scrubbers.
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Boiler tubes and drums, main steam lines, turbine blades and forgings, scrubbers and generator winding supports are among the expensive items that need replacing.
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Historically, environmental regulations have required polluters to install new equipment like so-called smokestack scrubbers and catalytic converters in cars, factories and power plants.
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He said Vitol chose to install scrubbers only on their bigger long-haul ships rather than smaller vessels that carry up to 50,000 tonnes.
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While most cruise ships run on highly polluting heavy fuel oil, many have begun using "scrubbers" to remove toxic sulfur oxides from their exhaust.
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The EPA is justifying these changes by arguing that the costs of implementing new environmental controls like scrubbers for flue gases is too high.
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Many shipping companies have invested in open-loop scrubbers as they are cheaper and the decision by Fujairah's port adds to complications for vessel owners.
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They fear being the only buyers of scrubbers and the like in an industry with tight margins, or losing money by picking a bad solution.
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The refiner said it will also install scrubbers on half of the six Very Large Crude Carriers that it charters on a long-term basis.
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A total of 22020,212 vessels have already been fitted with scrubbers, according to a report issued by Norwegian consulting firm DNV GL on Oct. 219.
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In January, Fujairah port authorities announced they would ban open-loop scrubbers, mirroring a similar moves in Singapore - the world top bunkering hub - and China.
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One solution for shipping firms is to install sulphur filtering units on board, known as scrubbers, which would allow vessels to continue burning cheaper HSFO.
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One solution for shipping firms is to install sulfur filtering units on board, known as scrubbers, which would allow vessels to continue burning cheaper HSFO.
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Carnival's Mike Kaczmarek, senior vice president for marine technology and refit with oversight of the group's scrubbers program, said the port moves were "very troubling".
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Carnival said a study it commissioned concluded that scrubbers were safe and discharges were over 90 percent lower than maximum allowable levels in various waters.
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Adding to the improved demand outlook is "a much greater skew toward installing scrubbers on larger vessels that burn higher quantities of fuel," said Olney.
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FGE revised its outlook after shipper Hapag-Lloyd said in its half-year financial report that it was testing scrubbers on two larger container ships.
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The IMO's consultants examined the impact on low-sulphur fuel demand from the economic cycle, shipbuilding and the choice between fuel switching and using scrubbers.
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Many vessels may try to dodge the new rules, unable to afford the cost of scrubbers and reluctant to pay the premium for cleaner fuel.
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Goldman's forecasts for higher than expected HSFO consumption mirrors similar outlook revisions from other energy researchers in August amid changing attitudes to scrubbers from shippers.
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Although open-loop scrubbers prevent sulphur emissions from ships escaping into the atmosphere, heavy metals and sulphur end up being discharged into seas with washing water.
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Power plant operators have installed scrubbers to remove pollutants from their smokestacks, and car manufacturers have adopted catalytic converters to curtail nitrogen oxides and other emissions.
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The resulting regulations helped spur targeted innovation, which led to the invention of catalytic converters and smoke-stack scrubbers, changed global industries and improved countless lives.
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Shipowners could meet the new regulations by installing sulphur-stripping exhaust cleaning systems, known as scrubbers, and continue to burn cheaper high-sulphur fuel oil (HSFO).
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Ship owners can switch to cleaner, but more expensive fuels, or they can install scrubbers, devices which remove the sulphur after the fuel has been burnt.
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Wartsila is the market leader in so-called sulphur scrubbers that strip sulphur as fuels are burned, allowing ships to continue using high-sulphur fuel oil.
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"The (open loop) scrubbers have a hard time passing the front page test taking pollutants from the air and dumping it into the sea," he said.
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A total of 3,756 ships, both in operation and under order, have already had scrubbers installed according to DNV GL, the world's largest ship classification company.
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Problem is, new coal plants have to be "clean," which is to say, they have to have the filters and scrubbers to meet modern pollution standards.
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Usually called scrubbers, these systems capture the exhaust produced by burning bunker fuel and remove the sulfur before releasing the clean(ish) remains into the air.
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Vitol sees 3,303-4,000 scrubbers installed around the 2020 implementation date, a number that means high sulfur, or heavy, fuel oil is expected to remain in demand.
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In recent months, many shipping companies have opted to fit scrubbers onboard their ships, ahead of major changes in the use of marine fuel across the world.
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The robot scrubbers will free up existing Walmart employees to have more time to perform other tasks, according to John Crecelius, Walmart's vice president of central operations.
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"We see the timing of adding high-end tankers with scrubbers at current prices as very compelling, just as the market starts to move," the brokerage added.
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Ships that install "scrubbers" can continue to burn cheaper high sulfur fuel oil, but the bulk will not install these in time for the shift in 2020.
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He said Mercuria was in talks to finance shipowners who want to install expensive sulfur cleaning kits called scrubbers, allowing them to burn cheaper high sulfur fuel.
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The IEA estimates that about 4,000 scrubbers will be installed by 2020, consuming around 680,2.33 bpd of fuel oil on average, up from 340,000 bpd in 2019.
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A total of 294,2000 vessels have now installed the smokestacks cleaning systems, known as scrubbers, Norwegian consultancy DNV GL said in a report, dated on October 215.
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Despite new environmental regulations on the horizon, he knew that even low-quality, high-sulfur coal could still be mined, provided that plants were equipped with scrubbers.
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The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is slashing the amount of sulfur allowed in shipping fuel, effectively banning high sulfur fuel oil unless vessels install sulfur-catching scrubbers.
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They added a computerized, gearless engine that occupies four stories of the engine room and gas scrubbers on the smokestack, which remove 97 percent of emitted sulfur.
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Vienna-based consultancy JBC Energy also earlier revised its 2020 demand outlook for HSFO to 600,000 bpd as more ships were seen adding scrubbers to their smokestacks.
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If you want a place to put bath items like soap, shampoo bottles, loofah sponges, and back scrubbers, does it have a convenient place like a ledge?
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Apart from scrubbers and low sulphur fuel, shipping companies can also use LNG as an alternative marine fuel, although its usage is still at an early stage.
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Some facilities use filters or scrubbers to reduce pollutants, but cremation still results in soot, carbon monoxide, and trace metals like mercury being released into the air.
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Of the six oil tankers under long-term charter by Cosmo Oil, half of them are fitted with scrubbers while the rest will use VLSFO, Tanaka said.
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Shippers will need to switch to lower sulphur fuels such as LSFO or marine gasoil (MGO) or install scrubbers to clean the emissions of higher sulphur fuels.
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Singapore and Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates, both major marine refueling hubs, have banned the use of open-loop scrubbers from the start of next year.
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Based on the limited number of manufacturers and time constraints on facilities to install scrubbers, AlphaTanker estimates no more than 240 ships could be fitted each year.
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Shippers will need to switch to lower sulfur fuels such as LSFO or marine gasoil (MGO) or install scrubbers to clean the emissions of higher sulfur fuels.
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But I had no idea there are trucks built specifically for the task, with giant scrubbers attached to robotic arms that can reach every last nook and cranny.
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Maersk, the largest container line, thinks low-sulphur fuel is the best choice, but France's CMA-CGM has opted for LNG and Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) for scrubbers.
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China's effective ban on open-loop scrubbers mirrors a similar move by Singapore, which in late November said it would ban the discharge of wash water from Jan.
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Vessels with exhaust cleaning systems, known as scrubbers, can continue to use high-sulfur fuels, but logistics become more complex when multiple bunker standards co-exist, shippers say.
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As such, Gunvor, which has also invested in some scrubbers, believes there will still be demand for heavy fuel oil, as scrubber uptake increases through 2020 and 2022.
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He'd been the one to suggest beefed-up security during the storm, owing to the uncertainties with the scrubbers, and his supervisors had been wise enough to agree.
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Right now, few ships have invested in the scrubbers, so many industry-watchers believe companies like Marathon and Andeavor are investing in capacity to make low-sulfur fuel.
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Vessels with exhaust cleaning systems, known as scrubbers, can continue to use high-sulphur fuels, but logistics become more complex when multiple bunker standards co-exist, shippers say.
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To do so, shippers can switch to burning cleaner oil, shift to alternative fuels like liquefied natural gas (LNG), or invest in exhaust gas cleaning systems, or scrubbers.
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One way ships can comply with coming standards is to retrofit vessels with costly scrubbers, which can reduce sulfur emissions even if ships continue to burn dirty fuel.
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"If this goes through, older plants that do not have advanced emission controls will more easily be able to extend their lives without putting on scrubbers," he said.
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China's effective ban on open-loop scrubbers is similar to action Singapore took in November to outlaw the discharge of wash water in port waters there from Jan.
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Of the more than 2,000 ships that have so far opted to invest in scrubbers, around three-quarters have installed the cheaper, open-loop type, shipping sources estimated.
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In a notice issued to the shipping industry, Malaysia's maritime department said ships are now prohibited from discharging washwater from open-loop scrubbers while operating in Malaysian waters.
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Some of those cuts can also be attributed to other pollution control measures, such as the installation of scrubbers that filter coal plant exhaust, according to the EPA.
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There, the ore passes through breakers, crushers and scrubbers until pebbles are sent through a series of X-rays and lasers, jets of air separating diamonds from worthless stones.
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IOC will be using Bright Pioneer from January 2020 for at least five years, giving its Singapore-based operator Global United Shipping Company six months to install the scrubbers.
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The companies hope to use fuel cells, rather than exhaust scrubbers, the industry standard, to capture emissions from natural gas-fired plants and at the same time generate electricity.
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Ships can get avoid using the new fuel, which will be more expensive, by equipping themselves with multi-million dollar scrubbers to limit sulfur emissions from the current fuel.
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Blankenship claims MSHA is at fault for implementing a faulty ventilation scheme and prohibiting coal dust scrubbers, with Manchin, who was governor at the time, and Obama also culpable.
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Traditionally, when the E.P.A. puts forth such a pollution reduction rule, it includes a requirement for polluting entities to purchase existing technology, such as smokestack "scrubbers," to cut pollution.
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Ships without scrubbers would have to burn costlier low-sulfur fuels such as marine gasoil (MGO) or ultra-low-sulfur fuel oil to comply with the clean air rules.
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Rather than burning VLSFO or MGO that contain 0.5% sulfur, ships can instead add sulfur-removing units, or scrubbers, onboard to continue using cheap high-sulfur fuel oil (HSFO).
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"Prevailing wisdom would be for operators opting for scrubbers to have a meaningful dialogue with their supplier base to secure HSFO post-2020 in ports of call," Raitt said.
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But ship owners also have the option of using devices called scrubbers, which remove sulfur from the exhaust emissions, thereby allowing the continued use of high-sulfur fuel oil.
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The scrubbers that remove mercury from coal plant emissions also reduce other pollutants, especially particulates, which are deadly, so this co-benefit keeps lethal pollution out of the air.
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New rules will oblige ship owners to install exhaust gas cleaning systems ( "scrubbers") or switch from burning high-sulfur residual fuel oil to lower-sulfur fuels such as marine gasoil.
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Wartsila cut demand outlook, but said a large number of deliveries, including for scrubbers, was scheduled for the end of the year, giving management confidence in strong short-term outlook.
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Instead of relying on traditional means of cutting emissions, such as scrubbers, the administration is open to innovative technologies that focus on heat-rate efficiency improvements of a given plant.
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More than $12bn (£9.7bn) has been spent on the devices, known as open-loop scrubbers, which extract sulphur from the exhaust fumes of ships that run on heavy fuel oil.
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Robot janitors and grocery pickers The 920-pound self-driving scrubbers, called the "Auto-C," use automated technology to navigate custom routes around the store and mop up the floors.
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Westfield malls in California introduced Pepper, a cute 4-foot-tall humanoid robot, in 2016, and even Walmart plans to bring thousands of autonomous floor scrubbers to stores next year.
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The IMO will allow ship owners to continue to burn high sulfur fuels if they have installed sulfur cleaning kits called scrubbers, another investment that needs hedging and price clarity.
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International Maritime Organization rules have capped the sulphur content of ship fuel at 0.5% from the start of 2020 unless vessels are equipped with exhaust-cleaning systems known as scrubbers.
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The IMO 2020 rules lower the ceiling on sulfur in ship fuel to 0.5% sulfur unless they are equipped with exhaust-cleaning systems known as scrubbers, down from 3.5% currently.
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New rules will oblige ship owners to install exhaust gas cleaning systems ("scrubbers") or switch from burning high-sulphur residual fuel oil to lower-sulphur fuels such as marine gasoil.
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Installing scrubbers involves a large upfront cost of several million dollars per ship but will allow them to continue burning cheaper high-sulfur fuel oil (capital investment to lower operating costs).
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The IMO says that when the new rules come into force it will ban ships that do not have scrubbers from carrying any fuel oil, making it easier to catch cheaters.
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Most people know iRobot for its line of Roomba vacuums, but the Massachusetts-based company offers a whole array of robotic cleaners, from gutter cleaners to pool cleaners to floor scrubbers.
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"Our production capabilities at SRC will enable our two shareholders ... to offer a variety of marine fuels for vessels with and without scrubbers," said William Stone, chief executive officer of SRC.
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The Exhaust Gas Cleaning System Association has estimated that 4,000 ships will be operating with scrubbers by the time the legislation is enforced, up from fewer than a hundred in 2013.
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They strategically analyze a cost-effective combination of scrubbers, catalytic controls and other approaches to maximize efficiency in reducing sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, mercury, particulates and other pollutants from coal plants.
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Major container shippers initially dismissed scrubbers as too expensive a method to comply with the IMO's 2020 mandate, but FGE said changing market conditions have forced them to reassess their viability.
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The agency said this week that it would rewrite the limits on pollution from bottom ash, scrubbers and coal gasification plants, signaling a new deregulatory push for the fossil fuel sector.
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But he added that it would take years for an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 ships to be outfitted with scrubbers because there are only about 30 manufacturers of the equipment worldwide.
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The new list names dozens of banned items including air scrubbers for underwater use, equipment to simulate flying conditions for non-civilian aircraft and gas masks not for use by firefighters.
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For starters, the company will reduce the carbon emissions from its ships by using scrubbers, machines that eliminate nearly all of the environmentally harmful sulfur dioxide from a ship's exhaust system.
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Several large ship owners said handling the new fuels correctly and making sure the scrubbers were properly deployed would minimise danger, but that if care was not taken, problems could arise.
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Ships without sulfur-stripping technologies, or scrubbers, would have to burn costlier low-sulfur fuels such as marine gasoil or low-sulfur fuel oil to comply with the clean air rules.
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Marine fuels containing no more than 0.5% sulfur by weight, down from the 3.5% currently used, to power ocean-going vessels will be required for ships without exhaust scrubbers on Jan.
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Shipowners will have to switch to pricier low-sulphur fuels, invest in "scrubbers" which remove it from the smoke of dirtier fuels, or use greener alternatives such as liquefied natural gas (LNG).
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New rules from the International Maritime Organization will ban ships from using fuels with a sulphur content above 0.5% from 2020, compared with 3.5% now, unless they are equipped with exhaust scrubbers.
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The official added that Indonesia, an archipelago with over 18,000 islands, will allow its domestic vessels to use high-sulfur fuel without scrubbers until the domestic supply of low-sulfur fuels improves.
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A spate of recent scrubber installation orders led energy researchers to revise their demand forecasts for high-sulphur bunker fuel higher as the scrubbers will let the ships continue to burn HSFO.
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Under IMO rules, ship owners have two routes to comply with the reduced sulfur caps: switch consumption to fuels containing less sulfur or install exhaust gas cleaning systems commonly known as scrubbers.
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New rules from the International Maritime Organization will ban ships from using fuels with a sulfur content above 0.5% from 2020, compared with 3.5% now, unless they are equipped with exhaust scrubbers.
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The official added that Indonesia, an archipelago with over 18,000 islands, will allow its domestic vessels to use high-sulphur fuel without scrubbers until the domestic supply of low-sulphur fuels improves.
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To clean pollutants like mercury from their emissions, power plants have traditionally been able to invest in technological improvements like scrubbers, but such tech doesn't really exist yet for filtering out carbon.
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They'd learned their lesson from the Volkswagen case long ago: With EnviroCorp proprietary software tracking scrubbers at every plant, every factory, every highway in the US—that's a lot of carbon credits.
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EnviroCorp installed them around the country decades ago, during their initial round of scrubber retrofits, to buy time until they perfected the technology behind the "negative" part of the carbon-negative scrubbers.
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Regulations adopted by the International Maritime Organization will require shipping firms to switch from using heavy fuel oil to middle distillates unless they install expensive scrubbers to clean up their sulfur emissions.
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The ICCT has estimated that cruise ships with scrubbers will consume around 4 million tons of heavy fuel oil in 2020 and will discharge 180 million tons of contaminated scrubber washwater overboard.
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News anchor: With each breath, the three men expel more of the poisonous gas into the lunar module cockpit, and the scrubbers intended to keep the atmosphere breathable are quickly becoming saturated.
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"Some of it is understanding what a smart investment is versus a short-term investment or a cosmetic investment," like scrubbers on coal plants when coal is being phased out, he said.
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Users of the devices argue that there is no conclusive scientific research showing that discharges from open loop scrubbers - which wash out the sulfur - cause environmental harm and their use was safe.
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Users of the devices argue that there is no conclusive scientific research showing that discharges from open loop scrubbers - which wash out the sulphur - cause environmental harm and their use was safe.
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"It's not the amount of scrubbers you do, but on which ships because the majority of bunker fuel that is consumed today goes on 20-30 percent of the global fleet," Tornqvist said.
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Anyway, if one of the plant's scrubbers went down, even for a minute, it could prove once and for all that the core of the country's corporate carbon-sucking program was a scam.
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"The more positive outlook for scrubbers could reinforce the trend seen over recent months of a narrowing discount of fuel oil relative to gasoil," Vienna-based consultancy JBC Energy said in a note.
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The proposed approach has created a split between the electric generating industry, which has complied with the existing rule by installing scrubbers, and the coal industry, which is pushing hard for the change.
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Refiners and the shipping sector have not decided how to meet the stricter standards amid a myriad of solutions that include switching to gasoil or installing scrubbers to remove sulfur emissions from ships.
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"Singapore's bunker market could lose out to competitive bunkering locations emerging in surrounding locations ... provided they allow open-loop scrubbers to operate," said Ashok Sharma, managing director of shipbroker BRS Baxi in Singapore.
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It can also come from using bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration, where plants pull carbon dioxide from the air and scrubbers prevent the carbon from the resulting biofuels from reaching the sky.
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The new International Maritime Organization (IMO) rules prohibit ships from using fuels containing more than 2600% sulphur, compared with 2000% through the end of December, unless they are equipped with exhaust-cleaning "scrubbers".
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The IMO rules ban ships from using fuel oil with a sulphur content above 0.5% next year, compared with 3.5% now, unless they are equipped with exhaust "scrubbers" to clean up sulphur emissions.
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It's more frequently described as an old idea — "scrubbers" that remove CO₂ have been used in submarines since at least the 1950s — that is being radically upgraded for a variety of new applications.
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The bulk of the global shipping fleet is expected to switch to low-sulphur fuels as only about 3,600 ships will have installed scrubbers by 2020, data from ship classification society DNV-GL showed.
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But, a switch to low-sulphur fuels is still widely seen as the most practical form of compliance given the high investment and operational costs associated with scrubbers and uncertainty around future emissions regulations.
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The bulk of the global shipping fleet is expected to switch to low-sulfur fuels as only about 3,600 ships will have installed scrubbers by 2020, data from ship classification society DNV-GL showed.
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"BP has developed a marine fuel offer that includes this new VLSFO along with marine gas oil and also high sulfur fuel oil for vessels that are equipped with scrubbers (sulfur filters)," it said.
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BEIJING, July 24 (Reuters) - China will extend a ban on discharging the waste water from open-loop scrubbers to more coastal regions starting in 2020, the country's maritime authority said in a draft plan.
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"BP has developed a marine fuel offer that includes this new VLSFO along with marine gas oil and also high sulphur fuel oil for vessels that are equipped with scrubbers (sulphur filters)," it said.
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The VHA also recognized that the Santa Rosa clinic would not be able to reopen unless the air inside the facility was breathable and brought air scrubbers to cleanse it of smoke and toxins.
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More than 22020,22017 vessels are now expected to be equipped with exhaust gas cleaning systems, known as scrubbers, by 2020, up from 1,500 ships previously, said Thomas Olney, energy consultant at FGE in Singapore.
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Others are less concerned since most shippers are opting for low sulfur fuels as a means for compliance, and the benefits of scrubbers are largely realized in open water and not within port limits.
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From January 2020, the United Nations' International Maritime Organization (IMO) will ban ships from using fuels with a sulphur content above 23%, compared with 3.5% now, unless they have sulphur-cleaning kits called scrubbers.
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A spokeswoman for Cruise Lines International Association, a trade group, said that the scrubbers comply with the new 2020 standards for air and water quality set by the International Maritime Organization, a U.N. agency.
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He spent 240-hour days lugging power scrubbers in and out of a company truck; sometimes he encountered water damage and would cut his bare hands on fiberglass insulation he pulled from sodden walls.
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The ban on discharges from so-called open-loop scrubbers affects all rivers and ports along China's coastline and includes the Bohai Sea, according to an official from the China's Maritime Safety Administration (MSA).
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Neither option has been fully tested for long, and some problems have already been reported, both with the more expensive new fuels and with devices known as scrubbers which extract the sulfur on board.
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Under International Maritime Organization (IMO) rules that come into effect in January, ships will have to use fuel with a maximum 0.5% sulphur content, down from 3.5% now, unless they are equipped with scrubbers.
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Personnel who were exposed to the spill were decontaminated with hand scrubbers and abrasive soap, but by then many of them had carried contamination on their clothing and shoes into their homes and cars.
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While some shipowners have installed cleaning systems, others see them as potentially high risk as some ports have already banned or restricted scrubbers that pump waste water into the sea, and more may follow suit.
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Jenssen said that 60 percent of new-build ships in Korea, a major ship-building hub, were fitted with scrubbers last year and that the market to retrofit existing vessels is "picking up quite rapidly".
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Still, as the oil market rushes to prepare, the shipping industry could crush their best-laid plans; scrubbers, which cost $3-$10 million to retrofit onto existing vessels, are becoming more standard on new ships.
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In May, EU member states made a submission to the IMO's Marine Environment Protection Committee calling for it to develop a set of "harmonised rules" on the areas and conditions under which scrubbers can discharge.
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"Prudent tanker owners will have likely factored in the possibility of limits on the use of open-loop scrubbers," said Tim Wilkins, Asia-Pacific manager for Intertanko, an association of independent tanker owners and operators.
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However, the Trump administration's proposed rewrite of climate-change regulations could enable some of America's dirtiest remaining coal plants to be refurbished and keep running for years without adding scrubbers or other modern pollution controls.
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Under International Maritime Organization (IMO) rules, ships, from this month, must use fuel with a sulfur content of just 0.5% - down from 3.5% - or install devices known as scrubbers that strip out the toxic pollutant.
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Only about 6%, or 3,000, of the world's 55,000 ocean-going vessels are expected to have scrubbers installed by 2020, far less than originally expected, said Burns, an assistant professor at the University of Houston.
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From the start of 2020, the regulations will require ship owners to start using lower-sulphur distillate fuel oil unless they start buying lower-sulphur heavy fuel oil or install exhaust gas cleaning systems ("scrubbers").
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There is still a question over whether jurisdictions and ports could restrict the use of certain types of scrubbers due to uncertainty over the effects of the waste water that gets pumped into the sea.
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There is still a question over whether jurisdictions and ports could restrict the use of certain types of scrubbers due to uncertainty over the effects of the waste water that gets pumped into the sea.
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Yes, she was supposed to be a Carmen Miranda version of a charwoman, with a blue plastic bucket filled with sponges, toilet scrubbers and yellow rubber gloves held tightly onto her head by a durag.
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Sulfur content Reference Residual Marine Distillate Marine Gas Application Fuel Oil (RM) Oil / Diesel Oil (DM)S 0.1% Ultra Low ULSFO (RM) ULSFO (DM) ECA zone, IMO 2020 Sulphur (ULS) compliant0.1% < S 0.5% Very Low VLSFO (RM) VLSFO (DM) IMO 2020 compliant Sulphur (VLS) 0.5% < S 1% Low Sulphur LSFO (RM) LSFO (DM) Ships with scrubbers, (LS) blendstockS > 1% High Sulphur HSFO (RM) HSFO (DM) Ships with scrubbers, (HS) blendstock Sources: International Maritime Organization, industry sources (Reporting by Roslan Khasawneh; Editing by Tom Hogue)
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Sulphur content Reference Residual Marine Distillate Marine Gas Application Fuel Oil (RM) Oil / Diesel Oil (DM)S 0.1% Ultra Low ULSFO (RM) ULSFO (DM) ECA zone, IMO 2020 Sulphur (ULS) compliant0.1% < S 0.5% Very Low VLSFO (RM) VLSFO (DM) IMO 2020 compliant Sulphur (VLS) 0.5% < S 1% Low Sulphur LSFO (RM) LSFO (DM) Ships with scrubbers, (LS) blendstockS > 1% High Sulphur HSFO (RM) HSFO (DM) Ships with scrubbers, (HS) blendstock Sources: International Maritime Organization, industry sources (Reporting by Roslan Khasawneh; Editing by Tom Hogue)
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CMA CGM, which is based in the southern French port city of Marseille, said the order comprised five vessels powered by liquefied natural gas and five to be fitted with so-called scrubbers to reduce emissions.
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Singapore, China and Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates have already banned the use of the cleaning systems, called open loop scrubbers, from the start of next year when the new IMO rules come into force.
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An official with Sweden's Gothenburg port said it recommended shipowners in their waters not to use open loop scrubbers as a precautionary principle to "avoid discharges of scrubber wash water in coastal waters and port areas".
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"What is terrible for business is uncertainty in regulation and changes which are not broadcast well in advance," said Hamish Norton, president of dry bulk shipping group Star Bulk Carriers, among the biggest investors in scrubbers.
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The group will also use liquified natural gas on new vessels and fit so-called scrubbers on certain vessels to reduce emissions from standard shipping fuel, and has said it will pass on costs to customers.
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Few ships have so far opted to install the costly "scrubbers," which would allow them to keep burning high-sulfur fuel oil, meaning sellers will be under pressure to cut the availability of higher sulfur fuel.
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From the start of 2020 the United Nations' International Maritime Organization will require that all ships use fuel with sulfur content limited at 0.5%, compared with 3.5% currently, unless they have sulfur-cleaning kits called scrubbers.
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"The bans will limit the use of scrubbers, and therefore high-sulphur fuel oil, in China, suggesting a strong uptick in diesel demand," said research consultancy Energy Aspects in an email alert to clients on Tuesday.
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From the start of 22020, ocean-going ships will be required to use low-sulphur fuels or employ exhaust gas cleaning systems, known has scrubbers, under pollution control rules approved by the International Maritime Organization (IMO).
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Under new rules agreed by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), ships will be forced to switch to using low-sulphur fuels rather than high-sulphur residual fuel oil, or fit scrubbers to remove sulphur dioxide emissions.
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Under new rules agreed by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), ships will be forced to switch to using low-sulfur fuels rather than high-sulfur residual fuel oil, or fit scrubbers to remove sulfur dioxide emissions.
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The IMO rules cut the maximum amount of sulphur emissions to 0.5 percent from 13 percent, meaning that ships without scrubbers have to burn lower-sulphur fuels such as marine gasoil or ultra-low-sulphur fuel oil.
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Ship owners can comply with the tighter controls either by switching away from the sludgy and sulphur-rich so-called bunker fuels to diesel or liquefied natural gas (LNG), or by fitting scrubbers to clean exhaust emissions.
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Demand for so-called scrubbers which strip out sulfur from marine fuel has boosted Wartsila and its Swedish rival Alfa Laval in the past few years as shipowners prepared for stricter sulfur emissions regulations from next year.
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Refiners and the shipping sector have yet to decide on a way to deal with the stricter standards amid a myriad of solutions that include switching to gasoil or installing scrubbers to remove sulphur emissions from ships.
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The 28 European Union countries submitted a paper to the IMO which said the use of open loop scrubbers was "expected to lead to a degradation of the marine environment due to the toxicity of water discharges".
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Demand for so-called scrubbers which strip out sulphur from marine fuel has boosted the engineering group as well as Wartsila in the past few years as shipowners prepared for stricter sulphur emissions regulations from next year.
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Shell said it has developed fuel product offers including very low-sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO) supply in selected bunkering ports, high-sulphur fuel oil (HSFO) supply for ships with on-board scrubbers and liquefied natural gas (LNG).
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There are already companies that have built plants that can do this, but the challenge now is to deploy these giant CO2 scrubbers at scale, make them use vastly less energy, and to make them much cheaper.
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Tornqvist sees even more pressure on the freight market as more tankers are fitted with scrubbers, units that remove sulphur from fuel exhaust, to meet new international standards on shipping fuel and the queue is causing delays.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia has prohibited the use of open-loop scrubbers by ships plying Malaysian waters, as Southeast Asia's third-largest economy joins the growing number of nations adopting new industry guidelines on reducing sea pollution.
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And while big industries have spent millions of dollars on smokestack scrubbers and effluent controls, much less investment in pollution control technologies has been made by small businesses, households, and other entities with limited access to capital.
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Ship owners can comply with the tighter controls either by switching away from the sludgy and sulfur-rich so-called bunker fuels to diesel or liquefied natural gas (LNG), or by fitting scrubbers to clean exhaust emissions.
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Shell said it has developed fuel product offers including very low-sulfur fuel oil (VLSFO) supply in selected bunkering ports, high-sulfur fuel oil (HSFO) supply for ships with on-board scrubbers and liquefied natural gas (LNG).
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Regardless of whether or not bison can go hoof-to-hoof with carbon dioxide scrubbers on power plants as a climate change mitigation strategy, it's worth remembering that fighting climate change is more than a matter of hardware.
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To comply with stricter emissions regulations coming into effect in less than two years, the South Korean shipper said it would opt for either installing scrubbers on its new-builds or fuelling them with liquefied natural gas (LNG).
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Unlike other countries, the Netherlands allowed farmers and industry to take measures they hoped would reduce nitrogen levels (such as experimental air-scrubbers), and count the expected reductions against new emissions—even before gathering evidence that they worked.
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Click here to view original GIFThe next time you're staring down a tough cleaning job—be it removing paint, rust, or lasagna off of a baking dish—don't waste your time with harsh chemicals, sand paper, or scrubbers.
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After our environment got cleaner -- thanks to technological innovation and some useful government-imposed requirements (like scrubbers in smokestacks and pollution limits on cars) -- the zealots moved on to demand bans on pipeline construction, mining and oil drilling.
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The company is also trying to convince the shipping companies it works with to install exhaust gas cleaning systems - known as scrubbers - and exploring the potential use of liquefied natural gas and biofuels to power freighters, Dieleman said.
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Shippers have several ways to comply – including investing in costly "scrubbers" to allow them to keep burning high-sulfur fuel oil, or shifting the roughly 4 million bpd of fuel they burn to more expensive low-sulfur gasoil.
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Ships with sulphur cleaner units called scrubbers will be able to still use HSFO but the vast majority have not installed these systems and will either need to use marine gasoil or Very Low Sulphur Fuel Oil (VLSFO).
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Under current rules, such major retrofits of old plants often come with a big demand: The owners must also spend hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade the air-pollution equipment to the best available technology, including scrubbers.
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Oxbow already had a history of environmental dubiousness, previously refusing to install emissions-reducing scrubbers and using misleading emissions counting metrics; in August the company was fined $39,000 by the TCEQ after a series of air quality violations.
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Despite the spreading bans of open-loop scrubbers, Douglas Raitt of ship classifier Lloyd's Register said vessels can still benefit from such systems as they can pump out the waste water in open seas, outside a port's jurisdiction.
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From 2020, International Maritime Organization (IMO) rules will ban ships from using fuel oil with a sulphur content above 0.5 percent, compared with 3.5 percent now, unless they are equipped with so-called scrubbers to clean up sulphur emissions.
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Walmart employees will be able to map out cleaning routes for the AI-supported robot scrubbers and then send them off on unmanned cleaning missions "with the press of a single button," the companies said in the press release.
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That means shippers will have to choose between installing air pollution control devices called scrubbers so they can keep burning high-sulfur fuel oil (HSFO), or opting to use more expensive VLSFO or marine gasoil to power their vessels.
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Frontline has agreed to time-charter all the 246.6 vessels, which were built this year and fitted with exhaust gas cleaning systems known as scrubbers that will help them meet the upcoming marine fuels rules, until the deal closes.
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Some investors say the upfront cost of installing scrubbers - about $2 million to $3 million each - also means it would take longer for them to pay off, especially if the price gap between low and high-sulphur fuels narrows.
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Since it can be expensive to operate pollution control equipment, the concern for environmental activists is that a weaker toxic-chemical standard would allow power producers to shut off their scrubbers while still passing the costs on to customers.
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Shippers have several ways to comply – including investing in costly "scrubbers" to allow them to keep burning high-sulfur fuel oil, or shifting the roughly 4 million barrels per day of fuel they burn to more expensive low-sulfur gasoil.
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As I said earlier, the Touch Bar addition is "interesting" — I don't find it particularly revolutionary for my wordsmithing purposes beyond having quick access to all the emoji characters in iA Writer or the image editing scrubbers in Apple Photos.
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Spliethoff on the other hand, has invested in scrubbers but its aim to have its deep fleet ready with them by the end of the year could be scuppered by the company's recent acquisition of 11 used tankers, Klap said.
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Mowat said that while shippers could expect a 20-50 percent return on investment cost for installing scrubbers, the penetration rate for them would be limited by factors including limited access to finance, scrubber manufacturing capacity and dry-dock space.
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The ban follows a restriction effective in Jan 2019 on discharges from open-loop scrubbers in key emission control regions, including the main channel of the Yangtze River, the Xijiang River, the Bohai sea region and ports along the coastline.
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The carbon scrubbers were the tricky part: The electrostatic field generators at the core of the capture devices were especially sensitive to wind speeds above 150 MPH, the plant operators had learned, so this storm would be a good test.
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The glow from the scrubbers made it difficult for his detail to move around in the open without being easily seen, but not being seen wasn't really the point if your job was to hold a military-grade laser rifle.
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On October 15, Scorpio, one of the leading oil tanker owners in the world said it has agreed letters of intent to fit around 75 of its tankers with scrubbers between the second quarter 2019 and the second quarter 2020.
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This latest amendment, which comes into force on March 1, 2020, makes it illegal for ships to carry high-sulfur fuel "for combustion purposes, for propulsion or operation on board" without scrubbers, which was not codified in the main regulation.
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Only 23 of these vessels have had closed-loop scrubbers installed, a version of the device that does not discharge into the sea and stores the extracted sulphur in tanks before discharging it at a safe disposal facility in a port.
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Mr. Clean Magic Eraser Bath, Cleaning Pads (8-Count), $9.98, available at AmazonThis Bath Magic Eraser is larger and more durable than the original Magic Eraser, and has water-activated micro-scrubbers that lift up dirt, grime, and soap scum.
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The ban of so-called open-loop scrubbers is part of an effort to prepare one of the world's busiest ports for International Maritime Organization (IMO) rules that come into force in 2020 and oblige ships to use cleaner fuels.
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While recent interest in scrubbers has increased, the cost of installing them and uncertainty around emissions regulations has meant that a switch to low-sulfur fuels remains the most practical form of compliance with IMO 2020 rules, according to industry participants.
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Dieleman said some ships had already been taken out of service to be fitted with scrubbers and the pace will pick up in the third and fourth quarter of this year before the regulations come into effect on January 1, 2020.
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Other regulations enacted under Obama's tenure, including the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, have also been successful in intensifying the economic pressure on coal by forcing many old coal plants to add scrubbers or go offline, and many have retired.
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Refiners will want to minimise the amount of high-sulphur fuel oil they produce as ships will largely be banned from using such fuel from next year, unless they have been fitted with scrubbers to remove the sulphur after combustion.
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It also modernized its fleet through its purchase of Gulf peer UASC, switching to more efficient vessels, and continues to analyze all technological options to reduce emissions such as scrubbers and switching to ships run on liquefied natural gas (LNG).
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Ashok Sharma, managing director of shipbroker BRS Baxi in Singapore, said "the bigger ships with larger fuel consumption on long haul voyages will still realize substantial savings" from open-loop scrubbers that can pump the waste water into the ocean.
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LONDON, Jan 22 (Reuters) - The port of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates has decided to ban the use of a type of ship exhaust cleaner, becoming the latest location to impose restrictions on so-called open-loop scrubbers, a port document showed.
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Some shipowners are installing exhaust cleaning systems known as scrubbers so they can continue to use high-sulphur fuel and some are switching to low-sulphur marine diesel, but all expect a period of turbulence when the "IMO 20203" rules come in.
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What's more, rewriting every last Obama-era air pollution rule could be a time-consuming slog — and in any case, utilities have already bought costly scrubbers for their coal plants to comply with things like the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS).
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Under International Maritime Organization (IMO) rules that come into effect in 2020, ships will have to use fuel with a maximum 0.5% sulfur content, down from 3.5% now, unless they are equipped with scrubbers to remove the sulfur from the vessel's emissions.
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Shippers will have to either invest in exhaust cleaning systems, known as scrubbers, to continue using cheaper high-sulphur fuels, or burn more expensive oil products, such as very low-sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO) and marine gasoil, or use liquefied natural gas (LNG).
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Some shipowners are installing exhaust cleaning systems known as scrubbers so they can continue to use high-sulphur fuel and some are switching to low-sulphur marine diesel, but all expect a period of turbulence when the "IMO 2020" rules come in.
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Shippers will have to either invest in exhaust cleaning systems, known as scrubbers, to continue using cheaper high-sulfur fuels, or burn more expensive oil products, such as very low-sulfur fuel oil (VLSFO) and marine gasoil, or use liquefied natural gas (LNG).
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The introduction of the scrubbers is important because the International Maritime Organization (IMO) is introducing the rules on marine fuels from the beginning of 2020, limiting the sulfur content to 0.5 percent, down substantially from the current 3.5 percent, to curb shipping pollution.
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Added to the problem is that if ships move to cleaner fuels such as liquefied natural gas, or add "scrubbers" – pieces of equipment that enable them to burn fuel oil and capture the sulfur emitted – investments in refinery upgrades may not pay off.
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For example, particulate matter (soot, smoke and poisonous gases) emitted by coal- fired power plants, can cause heart disease, cancer and asthma, but the scrubbers used by coal- fired power plants to remove mercury also remove particulates thus creating a major, indirect benefit.
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The heads of Gunvor and Vitol said this week that ships queuing to install scrubbers, units that remove sulfur from shipping fuel, had added to the tightness as the process sometimes kept vessels out of the water for a month or more.
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The IMO sulfur cap heralds the biggest leap in how ships are powered since they switched from burning coal to oil over a century ago, but vessels will still be allowed to use higher-sulphur fuel if fitted with cleaning devices called scrubbers.
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The International Maritime Organisation's (IMO) new regulations come into force from 2020, requiring shipping firms to use fuel oil with a sulfur content at 13 percent, down from 3.5 percent now or invest in cleaning systems, so-called "scrubbers" on their vessels.
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"From catalytic converters to smoke-stack scrubbers, America has a legacy of innovating the world's leading environmental technologies — accounting for more than 1.5 million jobs and $44 billion in exports in 2008 alone," EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy told a Washington, D.C., conference in 2014.
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Under International Maritime Organization (IMO) rules that come into effect in 20183, ships will have to use fuel with a maximum 0.5% sulfur content, down from 3.5% now, unless they are equipped with so-called scrubbers to remove the sulfur from the vessel's emissions.
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Under International Maritime Organization (IMO) rules that come into effect in 20183, ships will have to use fuel with a maximum 0.5% sulphur content, down from 3.5% now, unless they are equipped with so-called scrubbers to remove the sulphur from the vessel's emissions.
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Under International Maritime Organization (IMO) rules that come into effect in 2020, ships will have to use fuel with a maximum 0.5% sulphur content, down from 3.5% now, unless they are equipped with so-called scrubbers to remove the sulphur from the vessel's emissions.
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From 2020, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) rules will ban ships from using marine fuels, also known as bunkers, with a sulfur content above 0.5 percent, compared with 3.5 percent now, unless they are equipped with so-called scrubbers to clean up sulfur emissions.
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"To protect the marine environment and ensure that the port waters are clean, the discharge of wash water from open-loop exhaust gas scrubbers in Singapore port waters will be prohibited," said Andrew Tan, Chief Executive Officer of the MPA during an event in Singapore.
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To combat air pollution from the shipping industry, International Maritime Organization (IMO) rules will ban ships from using fuels with a sulphur content above 0.5 percent starting in 2020, compared with 3.5 percent now, unless they are equipped with so-called scrubbers to clean up sulphur emissions.
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But because of the high cost of complying with new rules, Indonesian authorities will allow Indonesian-flagged vessels to continue burning marine fuels with a maximum 3.5% sulfur content in its territorial waters past 2020 without having to use scrubbers, an Indonesian Ministry of Transportation official said.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's top refiner Indian Oil Corp is close to chartering a Panama-flagged ship rather than an Indian vessel in its first five-year tender to hire an oil tanker with scrubbers that remove sulfur emissions, sources with knowledge of the matter said.
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But because of the high cost of complying with new rules, Indonesian authorities will allow Indonesian-flagged vessels to continue burning marine fuels with a maximum 3.5% sulphur content in its territorial waters past 2020 without having to use scrubbers, an Indonesian Ministry of Transportation official said.
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To comply with IMO 2020 rules, shippers can switch to burning cleaner but more expensive oil, invest in exhaust cleaning systems known as scrubbers that may allow them to still use cheaper high-sulphur fuels, or redesign vessels to run on alternatives like liquefied natural gas (LNG).
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The measure mirrors a similar move made in Singapore ahead of International Maritime Organization (IMO) rules that will ban ships from using marine fuels with a sulfur content of more than 0.5 percent from 2020, unless they are equipped with exhaust "scrubbers" to clean up sulfur emissions.
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Refiners will have little incentive to produce HSFO after the regulations though some demand will remain as a small but growing number of vessels are fitted with smokestack scrubbers that remove the sulfur from the exhaust fumes and power plants will continue to consume the fuel.
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In the biggest shake up for the oil and shipping industries in decades, the IMO banned from the start of 2020 ships from using fuels with a sulphur content above 0.5%, compared with 3.5% previously, unless they are equipped with sulphur-stripping devices known as scrubbers.
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To comply with IMO 2020 rules, shippers can switch to burning cleaner but more expensive oil, invest in exhaust cleaning systems known as scrubbers that may allow them to still use cheaper high-sulfur fuels, or redesign vessels to run on alternatives like liquefied natural gas (LNG).
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An's firm is adjusting its course to reflect the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) move to mandate that from January 2020 ships must cut harmful environmental emissions either by burning fuel with 0.5% sulphur, down from the current 3.5%, or installing emissions-removing devices known as scrubbers.
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In a global effort to combat air pollution from the shipping industry, International Maritime Organization rules will ban ship from using fuels with a sulphur content above 0.5 percent from 2020, compared with 3.5 percent now unless they are equipped with so-called scrubbers to clean up sulphur emissions.
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"Over time [they] can cause problems both with their abrasion when used with a sonic toothbrush against enamel, and [I've] heard of patients getting those micro scrubbers lodged in their gums, which can lead to gum irritation and site-specific bone loss, if not properly removed," he explains.
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Companies are exploring cleaner fuel options such as LNG because of a mandate from the International Maritime Organization that requires ships to either use marine fuel, known as bunker fuel, with a maximum of 0.5% sulphur, down from 3.5% currently, or to install pollution-removing devices known as scrubbers.
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In 2013, Duke spent about $400 million and hired about 300 construction workers to install a 200-foot tall unit made of chemical-coated steel plates, which captures mercury and converts it into a different substance, which is then removed by chemical "scrubbers" already present in the plant.
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In addition, there were no relatively expeditious technological fixes for carbon emissions, as there were for fluorocarbons, and as there were for the pollutants addressed in the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, like scrubbers for power plants, and catalytic converters and cleaner fuels for cars and light trucks.
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But because of the high cost of complying with the new rules, Indonesian authorities will allow Indonesian-flagged vessels to continue burning marine fuels with a maximum 3.5% sulphur content in its territorial waters past 2020 without having to use scrubbers, an Indonesian Ministry of Transportation official said last week.
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For every ton of fuel burned, ships using open-loop scrubbers emit approximately 45 tons of warm, acidic, contaminated washwater containing carcinogens including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and heavy metals, according to the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), a non-profit organisation that provides scientific analysis to environmental regulators.
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In a global effort to combat air pollution from the shipping industry, International Maritime Organization (IMO) rules will ban ship from using fuels with a sulphur content above 0.5 percent from 2020, compared with 3.5 percent now unless they are equipped with so-called scrubbers to clean up sulphur emissions.
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While ships can continue to burn higher sulfur fuel if they install scrubbers, and can also use liquefied natural gas- powered engines or new low-sulfur fuel oil blends, a lack of preparation has led most to expect a dramatic boost in marine gasoil consumption, as it is the easiest option available.
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When the forecast for a rapidly intensifying hurricane first hit the newswires on Tuesday, she'd enlisted a few dozen of her friends and co-workers—anyone she could trust, really—to see if they could help her find out more on the off chance any of the scrubbers lost power during the storm.
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However, ships that have installed scrubbers that can remove sulphur as fuel is burned can continue to use higher-sulphur fuel * The amendment to MARPOL Annex VI approved on Friday would make it illegal for ships without scrubbers to carry fuels above the sulphur limit in their supply systems, but would allow any ship to carry higher sulphur fuels as cargo * The approval is the second to last step required in order to formalise the ban on carrying fuel oil - which is itself a step aimed at making it easier to enforce the stricter sulphur limits * The IMO will next have to formally adopt the amendment at the group's meeting in October (Reporting By Jonathan Saul and Libby George Editing by Susan Fenton)
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She'd heard from a colleague who was tracking a plant in Maine that, during a recent power failure, that something may be up with those scrubbers—designed and manufactured by EnviroCorp to suck planet-cooking carbon out of the sky, and now found outside of just about any major pollution source in the country.
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While environmental regulations under the Clean Air Act often require states to cut pollution by using specific technology, such as affixing "scrubbers" to smokestacks, the Clean Power Plan goes further: It asks states to reduce pollution by making changes to their entire electricity systems — shutting down coal plants, and building wind and solar plants.
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China's web scrubbers have been busy banning a collection of terms and dropping the hammer on user accounts after the Xi Jinping, the country's premier, got the all-clear to become 'President For Life' after the Communist Party moved to amend the constitution to remove an article that limits Presidential terms to two five-year terms.
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While experts say that carbon capture could prove useful for tackling climate change emissions — not just from coal plants, but from steel and cement plants as well — they also note that companies have little incentive to install the necessary scrubbers and pipelines in the absence of stricter climate regulations or a price on carbon, two policies Mr. Trump has fiercely opposed.
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That cut would include the lab in West Virginia and four others around the country that have developed smokestack "scrubbers" to reduce toxic mercury pollution from burning coal; designed deep-sea drilling hardware to prevent disasters like the Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion in 2010; and researched technology that could allow the burning of coal without the emissions of the planet-warming carbon dioxide.
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"The Advanced Air Quality Systems (generically known as exhaust gas cleaning systems, or scrubbers) are installed on 71 of the company's more than 100 ships and, through extensive independent testing, the systems have proven capable of outperforming low-sulfur fuel alternatives such as marine gasoil (MGO) in terms of cleaner air emissions with essentially no negative environmental impact to oceans and seas," a spokesman said in an email.
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