RWO Offers - as the First Ballast Water Treatment Company - a 3D Scan Service

Modelling of the installation of a ballast water treatment system on board a ship

The Bremen-based water and wastewater treatment specialist RWO now offers its maritime customers - besides its efficient CleanBallast ballast water treatment system that has been tested under and designed for realistic conditions - an additional and essential service for retrofittings.

As one of the first ballast water treatment system manufacturers worldwide, RWO recently acquired its own high-speed 360° 3D scanner and also with this customer service is positively ahead of the times. So as of now RWO can in only a short time create in exact detail three-dimensional images of a ship's engine room and by this means portray the most advantageous options for installing the CleanBallast system. The image gives the shipowner and the shipyard an exact, digital reproduction of the conditions and thus saves costs and effort for necessary design and engineering work. For presentation purposes, etc., the depiction of the environment scanned in 3D can also be provided in colour. 
A further benefit is the measurement, accurate to the millimetre, of clearances from the scanned image. This means that time-consuming surveying work, which normally is necessary for the assessment of the space conditions on board a ship is no longer required.

RWO has more than 35 years' experience in the maritime water and wastewater treatment market and ensures sustainability and availability during the entire lifetime of the systems through its worldwide service network.

Currently, RWO has more than 50 CleanBallast ballast water treatment systems in its order book, and as at the end of December 2011 more than 30 CleanBallast plants were successfully started up. The sea trials took place in China where, among other things, the plants were supplied with water from the River Yangtze, one of the most difficult bodies of ballast water in the world.