BSKY Ballast Water Management System passed all 15 rounds of USCG shore-based test

Wuxi Brightsky Electronic Co., Ltd.

Wuxi Brightsky Electronic Co., Ltd.'s self-developed application-enhanced physical technology (EPT) ballast water management system completed and passed all 15 shore-based tests required by the US Coast Guard (USCG) at KOMERI Laboratories, Korea. Significant progress has been made in the USCG certification work for BSKY Ballast Water Management System.

BSKY Ballast Water Management System

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UV Module

The USCG certification of the ballast water management system requires three tests in a third-party independent laboratory designated by the USCG, including shore-based tests, ship tests, and equipment environmental simulation tests. The shore-based test is one of the most demanding and critical tests, and all of them are independently completed by a third-party laboratory. There are 15 rounds of tests, including 5 rounds of seawater, freshwater and brackish water, each of which requires 5 rounds of water. Continuous compliance, otherwise it needs to be repeated, so it is a high-level verification of the comprehensive performance of the system bio-efficiency and reliability, especially for the ballast water management system of the US+UV technology principle, especially the need for higher R&D and design. Levels to meet the stringent bioavailability testing of the USCG standard.

In 2017, Wuxi Brightsky Electronic Co., Ltd. applied for a USCG type approval test for its ballast water management system. Since September 2018, the BSKY Ballast Water Management System has officially conducted a three-month land-based test at the US GM-approved KOMERI laboratory in Korea, from December 2018 to March 2019 due to the lack of marine life and insufficient plant density. The test was suspended. During the land-based test, BSKY Ballast Water Management System carried out high-salinity 5 times, low salinity 5 times, and fresh water 5 cycles in strict accordance with USCG requirements. All test results are in full compliance with USCG type approved emission requirements.

Next, the BSKY Ballast Water Management System will be undergoing a five-month, five-sea trial test. The BSKY ballast water management system has been installed on the ship of the Japanese merchant ship Mitsui Shipping Co., Ltd. and began the actual ship test of the USCG. It is planned to complete the ship test in November this year.

BSKY Ballast Water Management System uses hydraulic spinning technology to filter + ultrasonic + ultraviolet pure physical treatment method, green, safe and reliable. In the past ten years, Brightsky has focused on technology upgrade research and development, and has obtained international invention patent certificates from China, the United States, the European Union, Japan and South Korea. Among them, the filtration part of the hydraulic spinning technology is a revolutionary change in the screen filter used in similar products.

BSKY Ballast Water Management System has been approved by IMO, USCG-AMS, CCS type approval, and type certification of LR, RS, BV, KR, PRS and other classification societies.

Wuxi Brightsky is a professional manufacturer of R&D and production of marine ballast water treatment equipment in China. It has installed BSKY Ballast Water Management System for more than 300 ships worldwide. At present, the blue sky series products are installed on various ship types such as product oil tankers, salvage engineering vessels, container ships, bulk carriers, chemical tankers, semi-submersible vessels and offshore platform vessels.