Long Beach trials Sock on a Stack
The system uses a crane to place a large bonnet-like device over a ship’s smokestack. Exhaust from the ship’s diesel engines is then captured and scrubbed of harmful air pollutants before being released back into the atmosphere.
In tests conducted last summer at the port, the Advanced Maritime Emissions Control System (AMECS), reportedly captured about 95% of nitrous oxide, sulphur oxide and particulate matter – the major pollutants in ship emissions.
The port is equipping its shipping terminals with shore power AMECS could be used at berths that are not fitted with cold-ironing capability.
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