Balmaris – Novel ecologically acceptable system for treatment of ballast water and other fluids

Description

The proposed project includes the development and improvement of an innovative technology for the treatment, purification and disinfection of different liquids or in the strict sense of the word, the development of an eco-friendly system for ballast water treatment on ships.

The technology was developed in collaboration with several European scientific and research institutions.

So far a prototype was developed whose working process is based exclusively on the combination of mechanical and physical methods of the treatment, without adding any chemicals which are part of the working process of most current technologies for ballast water treatment and which may have a harmful impact on the ships’ crew, as well as the marine ecosystem.

Other than in ballast water treatment, the new technology may be used in many different areas with the aim of disinfection, purification or sterilization of different fluids, as well as destroying various organisms in fluids.

The working process of the technology is based on the innovative principle, which is the main factor for high operating effectiveness of the technology. The technology is currently in the process of obtaining an international patent.

About innovator

The owner of the invention and the director of the company Balmaris LTD is a final year student of an interdisciplinary doctoral program of Environmental protection in Ljubljana, where the project was also conceived.

In 2015 the project won the main award at the contest organized by Zagreb bank (member of Uni Credit Group), as well as the award for the best innovation in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County (Croatia).