Marine Harvest, the world''s leading seafood company and largest producer of farmed salmon and processed seafood, has purchased two Aquaculture Net Cleaning Systems from Hughes Pumps.
The Systems, each comprising a diesel driven HPS2200 pump set and 9 disc net cleaning head, will be used in Marine Harvest’s Scottish salmon sea farms located on the west coast.
Marine Harvest chose the Hughes Pumps system because it “promises exceptional levels of reliability and maximum productivity with very low levels of maintenance.”
The Hughes Pumps netcleaner uses revolutionary (patent pending) technology that allows the net cleaning system’s cleaning discs to be held against the net using only a small amount of the high-pressure seawater pumped to the cleaning heads. The company says that traditional in-situ net cleaning systems are inherently inefficient, because the pumped high-pressure seawater is split between the net cleaning process and holding the cleaning discs in position, which can cut the high-pressure seawater available for net cleaning by around 50%.
There are two versions of the Hughes HPS2200 package available; a conventional stand alone pumpset fitted with an acoustic canopy that is generally used from a workboat deck, and a marine engine driven version designed to be installed below deck, that uses seawater to cool the engine, making for a very compact installation.
