The IMO and USCG standards regulate the ballast water management
BIO-SEA by BIO-UV, the sole and unique French ballast water treatment specialist worldwide approved for its expertise
The ballast water treatment system BIO-SEA combines mechanical filtration and high UV dose disinfection, without any chemical treament, made with high marine quality components.
BIO-SEA systems are IMO and USCG type approved.
BIO-SEA has equipped many vessels, with reliable, innovative, modular and cost efficient solutions. BIO-SEA is able to provide, thanks to its worldwide certified Partners, systems for new building projects and turnkey solutions for retrofits projects, from onboard study till onboard installation (at quay, dry-dock or on voyage).

The BIO-SEA range has numerous benefits: adaptable, compact and able to treat automatically all flow-rates from 10 to 2000 m3/h per ballast reactor.
BIO-SEA technology proceeds in 3 steps, specifically designed for the disinfection of organisms contained in ballast water:
- ballasting operation: filtration + UV disinfection
- de-ballasting operation: UV disinfection only
- cleaning operation
