The daily climate of the Earth keeps changing due to the greenhouse effect and human actions, or more specifically, various emissions resulting from these activities.

The shipping industry ranks among the top contributors to sulfur oxide pollution, second only to the energy sector. Additionally, approximately 70% of shipping emissions occur within 250 miles of the coastline, putting hundreds of millions at risk of exposure to harmful pollutants.

Sulfur oxides pose significant risks to human respiratory health as they cause breathing problems, particularly in children, elderly individuals, and those with asthma. Sulfur pollution’s impact also includes damage to the lungs and heart, it can lead to heart attack, aggravated asthma, increased hospital admissions, and premature deaths.

Governments are worried about the problem, leading to the creation of the Air Pollution Control Act. By 2020 the shipping industry has to reduce sulfur oxides emissions by all possible means. There are two ways to the problem solution:

• use of fuels that contain no more than 0.5 percent sulfur is a very significant reduction because 3.5 percent is accounted for by the current limit;
• installation of air scrubbers is the most promising way.

Air scrubbers remove particulate matter and gaseous pollutants from industrial exhaust streams. They are installed directly on the ships, where it is possible to divide toxic or corrosive compounds from exhaust gases and neutralize them. Moreover, wet air scrubbers have many advantages for the shipping industry among other types of scrubbers:

• small space requirements that are particularly important for the installation of the scrubbers on a ship due to space limitations;
• no secondary dust sources during air scrubbing because there is no way to escape the scrubber for the collected compounds;
• no temperature or humidity limitations;
• minimal fire and explosion risk factors;
• collection of both particulate substances and gases.

The primary benefit of wet air scrubbers is their adaptability, allowing for a wide range of various applications. All the mentioned advantages make wet air scrubbers the ideal solution for reducing pollution on ships. Nevertheless, not all types of scrubbers are suited for the shipping industry, because it requires a retrofitting that has a high cost for some air scrubbers.

If you are looking for the best air treatment device to improve air quality, Redwood Technology offers a cutting-edge type of wet scrubber – a Multi-Vortex wet air scrubber.

Redwood technology is a fast-growing vendor of wet air scrubbers. The multi-vortex scrubber can remove gas emissions, dust, vapors, and other pollutants from a gas stream. It is an innovative technology created to save water that makes it more cost-efficient and differs from other types of scrubbers.  If you have any questions or would like to purchase a multi-vortex wet air scrubber, please contact us at info@rdwd.tech