(Carbon Positive News) - The threat of piracy and the vagaries of a recessed shipping market are holding up the verification of the most talked about new technology for the shipping industry, a scrubbing system that is claimed to clean ship emissions of much of their polluting gases. There is a lot of chatter in maritime circles about Ecospec Global Technology’s CSNOx system – a three-in-one process said to scrub the bulk of sulphur dioxide (SO2), nitrous oxide (NOx) and carbon dioxide (CO2) from engine emissions with a clean waste-water output.

The Singapore-based company is billing CSNOx as the “ultimate solution for ship owners and operators to meet current and future IMO restrictions on emissions from ships”. The completion of an independent testing programme still appears some months away. But if fully proven, the system would represent a quantum leap in pollution control and emissions reduction in the shipping sector, with obvious applications beyond shipping to land-based emission sources such as power plants and factories.

In March, CSNOx won the Technology of the Year award at the Green Ship Technology Conference 2010 in Copenhagen and was then enthusiastically greeted at the IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee meeting in London the same month.

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