HEAT-FIT™

Ballast water systems ensure safe operating conditions during voyages, help ships reduce stresses on the vessel's hull, and provide transverse stability. GF Piping Systems' maintenance-free solutions help to efficiently load, distribute, and unload ballast water from 0°C to 40°C, ensuring the ship can efficiently maneuver.

With the proper treatment of ballast water, the spread of invasive species via ballast water can be prevented. GF Piping Systems' lightweight plastic piping system ecoFIT can be used for efficient and maintenance-free ballast water treatment thanks to the fire retardant pipe jacket system HEAT-FIT. The system shows a unique chemical and temperature resistance and remains corrosion- and maintenance-free for 25 years. In combination with HEAT-FIT, the system can be installed to treat seawater ballast in machinery spaces, pump rooms, cargo pump-rooms, and cargo holds of the fire endurance matrix category A, B, C, and D.

The particular feature of an engine cooling system is continuous fluid flow, which requires the careful selection of piping materials: Corrosion- and erosion-free plastic piping systems help avoid corrosion, ensuring hassle-free operations of freshwater and seawater cooling in essential applications. Thanks to HEAT-FIT, cooling in essential service areas such as machinery spaces and pump rooms of the category A and B and accommodation service and control spaces and open decks of classes J and K according to the fire endurance matrix is now possible.

For seawater scrubbing, an open-loop design using seawater is used. The exhaust gases are brought into contact with seawater to dissolve sulfur dioxides (SO2) in the exhaust gas. A very low pH is achieved during this process, and piping systems of the effluent lines are exposed to highly aggressive fluids. Therefore, the ultimate resistance of the piping system is of utmost importance to ensure a long system life without any downtimes. The PE100 piping system ecoFIT combined with HEAT-FIT can help you reduce the weight of your exhaust gas scrubber installation and reduce downtimes.