State air quality regulators have given their approval to emissions-control technology that has been developed at Port of Long Beach to help shippers comply with increasingly strict emissions standards for California’s seaports.
The technology is known as Advanced Maritime Emission Control System, or AMECS. The Carson-based Advanced Cleanup Technologies Inc. developed the technology with some $2 million in financial support from the Port of Long Beach. The company designed AMECS to capture ships’ exhaust and remove such pollutants as nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides and particulate matter.
AMECS is the second emissions-control technology California regulators have approved as an alternative to shore power. In June, the agency approved conceptually similar technology from the San Pedro-based firm of Clean Air Engineering-Maritime or CAE-M as it is also known.