GAME-CHANGER

 Bilge Water & Sludge

DNV-GL approved “SLUDGE REDUCTION”

Nominated for the Nordic council environmental prize 2018
Have you ever heard about ALARM! $$$$!
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BILGE WATER and OWS

Bilge water tank Sludge tank

SLUDGE PROBLEMS?
fig. 1
Many marine engineers know this problem. Bilge water and oil in the engine room.
FIRE HAZARD!
Fig. 1 shows the typical situation on ships around the world. A mixture of water,
oil and soap in all storage tanks and wells.

OWS has large daily operational problems because the bilge water tank is too dirty.

SLUDGE TANK
Much water in the sludge tank, gives frequent sludge deliveries to
port and large bills. This also gives problems for incinerator burning.

Marine engineers around the world are spending many hours daily, minimizing
all these problems.
Our customers also tried to do that before 2009, but it was hard work.

We have seen analyses mention that 70% to 80% of all sludge delivered onshore in Europe
is water. This is a huge co2 load for transport and cleaning plants onshore.

It is a challange to get the OWS CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW BIG AND EXPENSIVE THIS PROBLEM IS?
down to 15 ppm or 5 ppm limit.

This forces the marine engineers to

use creative solutions such as “magic pipe”
among others.
We only have good experiences with GreenArc and since they were installed around 5 years ago the
system has only improved. The system has proven to be very reliable and the running and mainte-
nance of the system has come at low costs. The system also saves a lot of time and money spent on
managing bilge water and sludge daily.
Dávið Jacobsen, Tecnikal manager, VARÐIN

Saksaberg Jupiter Tróndur í Gøtu

 Why choose this Green Arc 500
 “GAME-CHANGING” Pre-separator system? Fig. 1 shows the typical situation on ships around the world.
OWS has large daily operational problems because the bilge tank is too dirty.
Much water in the sludge tank, give frequent sludge deliveries to port and large bills.

Our customers are telling us, that GreenArc

should be standard on all ships. They say the ALARM! $$$$!
Green­Arc is spot-on, and think this system is
not “nice to have” but in the category “need to Standard
have”. We are very happy to get this feedback OWS
from our customers! Bilge water tank Sludge tank

Common to all these ships is that they never

need “magic pipe” or other creative solutions
to pump the bilge water overboard!
fig. 1
SLUDGE REDUCTION: These 38 ships also
deliver much less sludge ashore now, than they THE GREEN ARC 500 BILGE & SLUDGE system can take your ship from the situation fig. 1 to fig. 2 without the
In 2009 two marine engineers were so tired
did before. They are very happy with sludge use of filters or chemcals with only two moving parts. A highly reliable system that removes up to 99% of your
of the typical problems with bilge water, that bilge and sludge problems.
reduction mode, which makes it possible to
they decided to find a new way of solving these
remove about 90% to 99% of the water from
problems. GreenArc and the surface skimmer Flow diagram of the system, shows how this is done. It is an Internal cleaning.
the sludge tank.
is the outcome of this.
GreenArc installs
GreenArc can also clean the water out of
Instead of focusing on the OWS machine, we Water out Oil out $$!
the sludge tank on board the ship 24/7,
started focusing on the fluid in the bilge tank Standard
without human supervision. This will reduce
and bilge well. OWS
the sludge co2 impact with a minimum of 50%. Bilge water tank Sludge tank
We thought that if it was possible to remove
UN sustainable development goal nr 13.
the dirtiest 5% from the water, then we would
have a significantly better operation of all OWS
systems. Green IQ was founded in 2009 and
we started on the GreenArc systems right
away.
fig. 2 PATENTED
surface skimmer!
The prototypes from 2011 are still running DNV-GL   Approved Pre-separator system!
perfectly. The key component of the system,
is the patented surface skimmer.

The GreenArc system separates oil and water, 3 of our old ships have been trying GreenArc for a while. Now we are installing GreenArc in two
new buildings!
using laws of nature and gravity! The cleaned
There is only oil on the sludge deliveries, and they no longer have problems pumping the water overboard.
water from the Pre-separator is typical from Maintenance of our OWS is much reduced, even though we are now using it more.
10 to 100 ppm, so this is much better than
Ole Fisher Jørgensen. Techincal superintendent Polar Seafood Greenland
we hoped for. This is the situation, when we
are separating bilge water in holding tanks,
or opening bilge wells.
Now 38 ships have got our systems Installed,
and one power plant station on land. The ships
are from the Faroe Islands, Norway, Greenland,
Denmark and the UK.
6 newbuildings have ordered our system,
most of them are already delivered.

Polar Qaasiut Polar Nanoq Polar Princess New buildings Greenland

 Sludge delivery on shore in Faroe Islands. IFO 180
Fluid in liter pumped ashore. GreenArc system was mounted 10-06-2012. 3 brand NEW models
30.000
04-09-2012 & 21-09-2012 is major service at shipyard. a clear difference in the amount of water!
on the market in 2019
25.000
GreenArc 300 is ment for use on
all ships smaller than 400 grt.
20.000 It’s so easy to operate, that even
the cook can handle this unit.
15.000

10.000

5.000

GreenArc 500 YARD is for small

0
harbour oil recovery, and for use
on ship yards. Very easy to operate.
Dirty Water Oil

SLUDGE REDUCTION PERIODE

This is an actual documentation from a Faroese vessel.
Clear difference in water content in sludge, before and
after GreenArc “SLUDGE REDUCTION”

GreenArc is built with very minimum components, and only two moving parts.
UN sustainable development goal nr 12.

We have several models of GreenArc. Different capacities and for different oils.
HFO is a special model, but it also works well.
GreenArc 3k mobile. It’s a one man
GREEN IQ WAS NOMINATED FOR THE “NORDIC COUNCIL ENVIRONMENT PRIZE” IN 2018. operated oil pollution recovery unit
including oil/water separator.

We only have good news about this. GreenArc has helped our engineers a lot in 4 of our old ships.
Royal Greenland just received one new building, and will get one more in 2019.
These ships are built in Spain and they are both equipped with the latest version of GreenArc.
The systems are also very reliable! The cost of spare parts has been approximately
400 dkk/year on average last 4 years.
Brian Thrysoe, Teknical Manager, Trawler Division, ROYAL GREENLAND
The system is very easy to use, with very few movable parts, only a hose pump, and they
can run dry for hours, if you forget that it’s running.
Low maintenance costs, only changed the hose in the pump once in 3 years.
We are always careful what we recommend to others, but we are happy to recommend this system to any
shipowner/decision maker. We have it on both of the ships in the company, and it even works with HFO fuel.
Esmar Müller, Ch.eng. M/S Christian í Grótinum & M/S Norðborg

Qaqqatsiaq Nataarnaq Akamalik Tuugaalik Norðborg Christian í Grótinum

Parts of the GreenArc system are active patents
now in the USA, Canada, Europe, China, Australia
and pat pending in Brazil.

We are looking for worldwide marine

dealers at the moment. Please contact
us if you have a big network!

GreenArc complies with UN’s Sustainable

Development goals no 9, 12, 13 and 14

This project has received funding from the European

Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
program under grant agreement No 866908.
We are now in the process of phase 2 application.

Nominated for the Nordic Council

Environmental prize 2018

Together we can reduce the environmental impact

on our planet from all ships in the world. Please help us!

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