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The article discusses an urgent problem of designing systems for ship ballast water (BW) treatment ensuring high efficiency at low power consumption and small mass and size. Transportation of invasive organisms with ballast water presents a serious danger for the world ocean. According to the International Marine Organization (IMO), the BW global turnover reaches 12 billion tons annually. A number of species of aquatic organisms transferred daily with ballast water exceeds 7,000. Many of them not only survive in b...