Superyacht Chooses Compact ACO Marine Solution
11 September 2007
"ACO Marine is delighted to announce their recent success in securing an order to supply the complete advanced wastewater management system for a prestigious 96m Superyacht whose construction begins shortly at a leading European Superyacht builder" announced ACO Marine's managing director, Mark Beavis, today.
"Working closely with shipyard designers and the owner's technical consultants, we were able to develop a comprehensive wastewater management solution to meet the shipyard’s stringent performance and space requirements" he added.
Unique design and installation flexibility allowed ACO Marine to offer an extremely compact solution maximizing efficient use of the limited space available. With commissioning and setting to work, the 'turnkey' solution provided to the yacht builder emphasizes the ACO Marine capability in providing comprehensive wastewater solutions for yachts from 24 metres to the largest Megayachts.
"ACO Marine is extremely pleased and honoured to be involved in such a prestigious vessel" concluded Mr Beavis. The ACO Marine solution provides for advanced membrane technology that is fully compliant with the most stringent global legislation, including the incoming MEPC 159(55), effective for all sewage treatment plant installations on, or after, the 1st January 2010".
Using only highest quality AISI 316 stainless steel materials, simple and reliable operation are the ACO Marine benchmarks. The complete package will comprise two ACO Maripur 100 AWWT (Advanced Waste Water Treatment) units with direct mounted liquid ring vacuum generation units for the black water collection.
Automated grey water transfer system for all laundry, galley and sanitary grey water to be treated by the Maripur units with galley water passing through a Lipatomat NS4 fully automated grease separator system with a capacity of up to four litres per second. Finally, the ACO Pipe push-fit stainless steel pipe system will bring the system components together.
ACO Marine is a division of the ACO Group of companies, with more than 3,600 employees and 27 manufacturing facilities worldwide, providing complete design, manufacture, installation and commissioning services to all sectors of the marine market. All ACO Marine components are manufactured in-house to DIN EN ISO 9001:2000 production quality assurance procedures in specialist facilities located strategically throughout the EU.
