Equipment – Page 33

  • Individual PureBallast 3 systems will handle ballast flows of 300, 500, 750, 1000 (pictured) or 1,500 m3/h, and the systems will have IMO revised G8 approval or U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) type approval.
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    Bringing UV to the high ballast dependent market

    2019-12-19T06:17:00Z

    Alfa Laval is targeting the high ballast dependent bulker market with its new PureBallast 3 bulker-fit launch.

  • IMES has extended the functionality of its engine analyser in its new EPM-XP plus product.
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    High Performance engine analyser for diesel engines

    2019-12-11T17:32:00Z

    IMES, the Germany-based cylinder pressure sensors and combustion monitoring systems specialist, has extended the functionality of its engine analyser, EPM-XP plus. The product has been operating on diesel engines since 2019.

  • MAN Energy Solutions is introducing a 350mm bore S35ME-9.7 variant, including an LGIP option, to supplant its existing S35ME-B engine type (pictured).
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    MAN UPGRADES 350MM BORE TWO-STROKE SERIES

    2019-12-11T17:23:00Z

    An upgraded design of small, two-stroke propulsion engine in the 350mm-bore category has been released by MAN Energy Solutions to supersede the S35ME-B type, writes David Tinsley.

  • The AQUA Blue Mini Photo: Alfa Laval
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    AQUA Blue Mini meets smaller needs

    2019-12-04T14:10:00Z

    Alfa Laval''s AQUA freshwater generation technology is now available to a wider range of vessels, thanks to a new mini model.

  • Damen InvaSave at the Port of Hamburg
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    Mobile BWTS deployed to Port of Hamburg

    2019-11-29T12:36:00Z

    A Hamburg-based waste oil and water service supplier is offering a mobile ballast water treatment system service to customers at the Port of Hamburg. The service, which features a Damen InvaSave 300 system, is equally suitable for inbound and outbound vessels. It is being offered to ship operators needing to ...

  • Anders Sørheim, Yara Marine Technologies
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    Scrubber corrosion: addressing the issues

    2019-11-27T21:37:00Z

    One of the issues that ship owners should bear in mind when selecting scrubber systems is the corrosion resistance of components, Yara Marine Technologies Technical Sales Manager Anders M. Sørheim discussed the issue with The Motorship.

  • Using emulsified fuel (such as the samples pictured) brought NOx emissions below Tier III limits, and also lowered soot and carbon monoxide emissions (courtesy of MAN ES)
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    MAN offers emulsification for ME-LGIM customers

    2019-11-13T18:51:00Z

    MAN Energy Solutions plans to offer an emulsified methanol solution to existing customers of its two-stroke ME-LGIM dual-fuel methanol engine.

  • Ficaria Seaways’ EGCS has achieved more than 50,000 running hours since 2009 Photo: CSA
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    CSA applauds DFDS for scrubber results

    2019-11-06T13:58:00Z

    The Clean Shipping Alliance (CSA) 2020 has congratulated Danish ferry operator DFDS for ten years of successful scrubber operation, with the exhaust gas cleaning system (EGCS) on board the RoRo ''Ficaria Seaways'' achieving more than 50,000 running hours since 2009.

  • Bawat managing director, Marcus Hummer Photo: Bawat
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    Pasteurising BWMS given IMO approval

    2019-11-04T11:33:00Z

    Danish ballast water treatment system manufacturer, Bawat, has been granted IMO Type Approval for its technology that uses only a ship’s own waste heat to kill off invasive species.

  • One of the objectives of the simultaneous reduction scrubber project is that the wash water treatment system should maintain nitrate levels below 60 mg/l during open loop operation.
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    Korean Register in joint scrubber research projects

    2019-10-29T18:40:00Z

    The Korean Register of Shipping (KR) is participating in a government-funded project to develop systems to reduce particulate matter (PM) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions from low, medium and high-speed engines.

  • Heerema Marine Contractors' SSCV, Sleipnir Photo: GE
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    GE Technology powers largest crane vessel

    2019-10-23T16:14:00Z

    In a world record lift, Heerema Marine Contractors’ semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) has recently completed its first project installing the topsides of the Leviathan development in the Mediterranean.

  • Ecotone's pioneering hyperspectral imaging camera has potential applications in underwater pipeline inspection and mineral mining, as well as more detailed mapping of the sea floor.
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    Mapping the future: advances in camera technology

    2019-10-23T16:11:00Z

    Technological progress in the digital imaging industry is creating opportunities in areas such as ship inspections, writes Samantha Fisk.

  • ABB's ACS880 drives are certified by leading classification societies including ABS, BV, DNV GL, Lloyd’s Register, ClassNK and RINA.
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    ABB trials inbuilt AHC solution for offshore vessel

    2019-10-23T07:41:00Z

    A pilot installation on board an offshore vessel has provided the first practical application for an in-built active heave compensation (AHC) winch application with ABB’s ACS880 variable speed drive in the offshore segment.

  • ESL’s new Haaga, which with its sister Viikki, will be trialling MacGregor’s Autonomous Discharging Crane system
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    Deck kit could soon be getting much smarter

    2019-10-10T11:26:00Z

    Different innovation pathways are meshing to give the humble crane not just one, but a number of new identities, writes Stevie Knight. So, the challenge now is to bring it all together – and put it on deck.

  • COSCO Shipbuilding received USCG type approval for its Blue Ocean Shield BWMS system (pictured) in September 2019.
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    COSCO BWMS system gains USCG type approval

    2019-10-02T11:23:00Z

    The US Coastguard awarded type approval to Beijing-based COSCO Shipbuilding Industry Co. for its Blue Ocean Shield (BOS) ballast water management system (BWMS) on 7 September.

  • La Méridionale’s ‘Piana’
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    BICAR scrubber certified by DNV GL

    2019-09-27T16:18:00Z

    Belgian chemicals company, Solvay, and Austrian engineering group, Andritz, have announced that the BICAR dry exhaust gas cleaning system, designed to comply with the new sulphur emission regulations, has successfully been certified by DNV GL.

  • The Chris-Marine LCC cylinder liner condition camera Photo: Chris-Marine
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    New camera checks cylinders and exhausts

    2019-09-25T13:56:00Z

    Chris-Marine has launched its cylinder liner condition camera for use in in situ photography of the cylinder liner walls and the exhaust valve in two-stroke engines.

  • Techcross has acquired LG Hitachi Water Solutions and HiEntech Photo: Techcross
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    Techcross environmental enterprise ambitions

    2019-09-25T12:08:00Z

    In a bid to expand its ballast water treatment systems to land-based operation, Korean-based Techcross has acquired former LG Electronics'' subsidiaries, LG Hitachi Water Solutions and HiEntech.

  • Babcock LGE's ecoETHN solution allows methane content up to 2.0 mol% in the liquid phase to be transported. (Credit: Babcock LGE)
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    Babcock receives LR AiP for ecoETHN solution

    2019-09-23T15:22:00Z

    Classification society Lloyd’s Register (LR) awarded Approval in Principle (AiP) to Babcock for its ecoETHN® solution at Gastech 2019 in Houston, Texas on Wednesday 18 September.

  • Odin Kwon, CTO of DSME (l), receives the AiP certificates from Johan Petter Tutturen, DNV GL – Maritime business director gas carriers Photo: DNV GL
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    DNV GL gives Daewoo AiP for ethylene tanks

    2019-09-23T12:54:00Z

    DNV GL has presented South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) with Approval in Principle (AiP) certificates for two new 98,000 cubic metre ethylene carrier cargo tank designs.