Headquartered in New Jersey, USA and with manufacturing plants, sales and service engineers covering the world, CR Ocean Engineering leverages decades of experience in design and manufacturing scrubbing systems and other pollution control systems that meet the most stringent emissions standards.
Established in New York in 1917, Croll Reynolds designs and manufactures state-of-the-art air pollution control equipment and process vacuum systems for a broad range of industries - Petrochemical, Pulp and Paper, Pharmaceutical, Power, Aerospace, and the Food Processing - worldwide.
Croll Reynolds established CR Ocean Engineering as an engineering firm specializing in the research, design and manufacture of air pollution control equipment for the marine industry. This specialized focus assures customers of the upmost attention and company performance.
CR Ocean Engineering’s experience is based on thousands of closed loop and open loop scrubbers operating worldwide, under the strictest environmental conditions that meet or exceed the IMO sulfur and wash water regulations.
With company owned Manufacturing, Research and Test facilities in the United States, India and China, qualified fabrication shops in Europe and a worldwide network of representatives, CR Ocean Engineering is a leading supplier of high-performance Air Pollution Control Equipment to the world.
Do you believe that CR Ocean Engineering scrubbers are ideal for use in a wide range of vessels, such as RO-RO, Ferries, Cruise Ships and Container Ships and why?
The CR Ocean Engineering (CROE) scrubbers are in fact used on a wide range of vessels including the ones you mentioned but also tankers, bulk carriers, car carriers, heavy lift vessels etc... They are ideal for all types of vessels : with over 60 years
of scrubbing experience, our design is optimized and compact and fits any type of arrangement : inline which typically fits nicely inside funnels or with a side inlet if preferrable for newbuilds or for backpack installations or even outside installations.
Since your company is very active in the field of scrubbers, could you please tell us few words about the latest developments in this segment?
Regarding our latest developments, these are two (2) major ones :
• We have been working on our Wet Electrostatic Scrubber (WES) technology for fine PM and black carbon removal. This targets submicron particles and can be offered on passenger ships or any type of vessels to bring those emissions to the next level.
It will be tested on a ship later this year. With this technology, as opposed to Wet ESPs, there are no plates or tubes and no issues related to movement or vibrations on a ship. This technology is suitable for any vessel burning low or high sulfur fuels.
• With the new targets on greenhouse gases, we are proposing CO2 scrubbers. This is based on using ionic liquids and can be installed on ships burning low sulfur or high sulfur fuels but also LNG fueled ships.
How will your company be able to achieve greater growth and a stronger presence in the field of Shipping Services in the near future?
Our SO2 scrubbers will continue saving money for shipowners for the next decades. CO2 capture and fine PM removal are growing markets. We will also focus on pollutants that will be emitted with new fuels.
Do you believe that under the pressure to meet environmental regulations do you have to develop more technological and environmental friendly solutions much more often than it should be? Does it make you anxious and uncomfortable?
Scrubbers have been our specialty for over 60 years. This is our bread and butter. We are dealing with all kinds of pollutants on the land side. New regulations may push us in different directions but this is our comfort zone.
* President & Chief Operations Officer of CR Ocean Engineering