Alfa Laval – a provider of heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling – becomes a joint partner to Lingalaks, a Norwegian fish farming company, in an innovation project to develop pumping technology for more sustainable fish farming, enabling similar conditions as in deep fjords. The project aims at having the floating facility completed in 2023.
“Alfa Laval has teamed up with Lingalaks to develop a new innovative facility to be placed in the fjord of Hardanger in Norway. The Alfa Laval Framo pumping systems will bring up fresh low temperature water, with high oxygen levels, from 35 m depth and in addition create a perfect sea current for the fish to swim in. The pumping systems will provide conditions similar to the deep fjords giving optimal environment for the fish. Separation technologies will also be used to clean the water and concentrate the sludge for further use as fertilizer, enabling a sustainable solution,” the company said in a statement.
“With this collaboration we aim to increase both productivity and economic attractiveness of fish farming solutions while reducing the impact on the environment,” says Sameer Kalra, President of the Marine Division at Alfa Laval. “I am pleased that we are using our Framo technologies in the fishing industry, as we did some 70 years ago, now for the good of the environment.”
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