Clean bilge oil
Being a vessel of over 400 gross ton, we are to have Marpol compliant bilge oil separator on board. The one onboard is quite old and not working very well and spare parts have become a problem so we’re considering a new one which will also make sure we compliant with the latest rules and get class approval.
Most machinery that could leak oil has some kind of pan below or other drainage system which leads to a 6 m3 dirty oil tank. But you always end up with some oil in the bilge of the engineroom, mixed with water from cleaning. The bilge oil separator will clean this water, put the oil in the dirty oil tank and pump clean water overboard.
The oil can than later be discharged ashore or, depending on the quantity of the oil and the fuel on board, be mixed with the fuel oil and be burned. After all, most of the ‘dirty oil’ is fuel oil. We plan a separate tank to collect used lubrication oil which will also allow us to clean the lubrication oil. We have a pretty good fuel cleaning system on board and these same guys make products to clean lub. oil.
