the marine industry faces major changes with new regulations to curb sulphur emissions taking effect January 2020 the global fleet will be confronted with a variety of new fuels slashing sulfur content from 3.5 to 0.5% means changing the ways marine fuels are produced resulting in a wider range of fuel handling parameters than ever before fluctuations in fuel density and viscosity can have a great impact on the efficiency of removing water and catalytic fines cat fines are a serious problem they are part of a waste stream coming from the refineries these small particles often much smaller than human hair can cause very serious damage to the engine and so can the ingress of water keeping these things out of your engine is absolutely crucial a traditional purifier uses a gravity disc to set the correct interface for oil and water a water seal is set and the discs stack is completely covered with oil an increase in density will cause the liquid seal to break leading to loss of functionality and significant oil losses conversely a decrease in density will push the interface into the disk stack so that the purifiers full cleaning capacity is no longer utilized the levels of water and cat finds in the cleaned oil will rise increasing or decreasing viscosity will have similar effects in a traditional purifier without our cap although to a lesser degree when the fuels viscosity or density varies a manual change of the gravity disk is needed to ensure stable and efficient separation this requires a system shutdown and is a very time-consuming job for the crew we will have a higher variety of different fuels in the market in 2020 and we will have the same amount of cat fans as we used to maybe even higher but the good thing is our separators will be able to take care of it because they have the automatic function to adjust to certain densities to certain viscosities and remove the particles with Alfa Laval Al Capp technology there is no need for a gravity disc that has to be exchanged for every fuel type al cap separators automatically adjust providing interruption free operation I'll cap separators act both as clarifiers discharging cat fines and other solids and earth purifiers automatically discharging water the bowl of an Al Capp separator is optimized to provide additional disk area which leads to greater separation efficiency to reduce energy consumption a unique paring tube is employed to detect water in the clean product an Al Capp separator also features a water transducer this ensures that water is automatically released from the separator as needed al cap technology monitors and removes both the water and the sludge that builds up inside the separator bowl high water content in the fuel will trigger a water drain and sludge build-up will trigger the water transducer more quickly when the water drainage occurs too frequently separated discharge is triggered thanks to Al cap optimal separation is unaffected by fuel density and viscosity changes there is no impact on the interface nor can a loss of the liquid seal occur independent of fuel properties an al cap separator will provide consistent superior separation performance without any change in hardware you [Music]