Ballast Water System

Top Water Flow provides competitive ballast water solutions to ship-owners and port authorities for safe and reliant treatment of ballast water in line with the requirements of the IMO and USCG conventions. Fitted inside a standard twenty foot shipping container the BWT system gives enormous flexibility for the user and is easy to handle on-board vessels and in ports round the globe

Initially, Top Water Flow started with a simple solution for a huge challenge, wondering how to solve one of the biggest issues in Maritime industry
Contaminated Ballast Water is a big ecological problem that has to be solved as soon as possible

Existing solutions on the market don’t comply with the regulations and high tolerances, break down frequently and some are even not operational
The American Bureau of Shipping, mentions a couple of concerning facts in their report

Top Water Flow designed a system that solves the ballast water treatment in an elegant way, lowering the cost of maintenance, power usage and still manages to give outstanding results and great durability even in the toughest environments

With these numbers in mind, there is definitely room for improvement.

Top Water Flow offers three different solutions for Ballast Water Treatment:

On-board solution

The BWT module is fitted on board the ship, allowing the vessel to be 100% compliant with the IMO and USCG regulations and sail into any harbour round the world

Harbour solution

The BWT module is fitted onboard a barge or tug boat, which on request will connect to the ship in need for treatment of its Ballast Water. For ports with high traffic activity, this may also be an good method of increasing port efficiency, as de-ballasting can be started well ahead of the docking period

On-shore solution

The BWT module is fixed onshore, and connected to the ships during docking. During the transfer phase, ships can de-ballast

Waste processing

During the de-ballasting and water treatment, bio-waste is generated and the waste management facility is there to process it. With waste collected, dehydrated, and properly processed, a good fertilizer mass is created that can be used later on in the enrichment of soils like gardens and similar