Case Study
Barnacles/Biofouling in the main Sea Water Inlet
MV Waterway (c) JF Hofmann Barnacles/Biofouling in the main Sea Water Inlet User: Royal Boskalis Westminster, Netherlands Royal Boskalis Westminster is a leading global service provider for maritime infrastructure with 100 years of experience. They own more than 1100 vessels for this purpose. The MV „Waterway“ is a so called trailing suction hopper dredger. On these ships from Boskalis, Merus Rings had been successful in many applications for the past years. As the results were always good and reliable Boskalis decided to install them at the main sea water inlet. Most ships use sea water aboard. Typical applications are cooling of the engines, production of fresh water or industrial water in pressurized water systems (hydrofoor) providing showers with water. The sea water is sucked into th