Dr. Jens Peter Hansen
Owner, ECA Engineering Aps.
Jens has more than 20 years of R&D and Project Management experience with emission reduction technologies – including SOx, NOx and Particular Matter (soot). He is among few independent experts in the world on Exhaust Gas Scrubbing technology for shipboard applications He led major projects at Alfa Laval, Haldor Topsøe, FLSmidth & Co. A/S.
- Initiated first R&D activities at Alfa Laval and Aalborg Industries A/S with exhaust gas scrubbers involving pilot scale tests in cooperation with MAN Diesel and which led to successful installation of world’s largest scrubber systems onboard a ship (20 MW MAN engine) in 2010.
- Jens founded ECA Engineering Aps in 2017 to help ship owners meet IMO 2020 by navigating between different scrubber options and also to manage complete scrubber projects involving manufactures, pipe suppliers, and yards. His knowledge entails an extensive network of sub-suppliers, institutions, engine builders, marine engineers and yards as well as new co-operations continuously formed as the scrubber market rapidly expands. His major clients include Torm A/S, Ultra Ship A/S.
- Full-scale installation onboard DFDS Ro-Ro vessel Ficaria Seaways which became the world’s largest and first hybrid scrubber system