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Navy Awards Electric

Boat $62-Million

Contract Increase

General Dynamics, Electric Boat

Division, Groton, Conn., is being awarded a $62,000,000 face-value- increase to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for de- sign agent services for the Trident

II (D5) capable Ohio Class subma- rine. The Naval Sea Systems Com- mand, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-80-C- 2075).

McAllister Adds New

Container Barge To

Feeder Service Fleet

Patrick Mullally, vice presi- dent of McAllister Feeder Service,

Inc., has announced the addition of a newly constructed container barge replacing the McAllister

Shuttle in the New York to Provi- dence and Boston feeder service.

The new barge, named the Mc-

Allister Dispatcher, was designed by Donald Hankin, executive vice president of McAllister Engineer- ing, and built by Misener Indus- tries, Inc. of Tampa, Fla., from keel up, exclusively to carry containers.

The McAllister Dispatcher has a total capacity of 320 TEUs and can transport 20-, 35- and 40-foot con- tainers at any location.

The introduction of the Mc-

Allister Dispatcher, operating along with the McAllister Transporter, raises the total weekly capacity of the feeder service from 512 to 704

TEUs, a 38 percent increase.

Centrico Forms New

Mineral Oil Group

Headed By Lohmeyer

Rising demand for Westfalia oil purifying centrifuges has spurred the formation of a "Mineral Oil

Group" at Centrico, Inc., it was re- cently announced. According to

Wend Wendenburg, executive vice-president of Centrico: "With oil prices high and slated to go higher, more and more users are controlling costs by burning heavy fuel oil. Westfalia oil purifying

Separators are an important part of this trend, and our new Group will help us serve the market more efficiently." Centrico, Inc.,

Northvale, N.J., is the North

American distributor of Westfalia

Separators and related systems.

Westfalia Oil-Purifying Separa- tors remove both water and solid particles from fuel and lubricating oil, allowing engines to burn heav- ier, less expensive grades of diesel fuel, as well as recycle lubricating oil. This results in savings in fuel and lube oil costs, reduced engine wear, reduced maintenance and less engine downtime.

Head of the new Group will be

Klaus Lohmeyer, manager of ma- rine and power systems for Cen- trico. Mr. Lohmeyer is a former seagoing chief engineer with ex- perience in a wide tonnage range of merchant vessels. Before com- ing to Centrico he was employed at Westfalia Separator AG for 15 years where he became a special- ist in oil purification systems. He will be responsible for all sales and engineering activities in four fields: (1) marine applications, in- cluding small boats, offshore drill- ing, fisheries, etc.; (2) land-based power plants; (3) gas turbine fuel purification and washing systems; and (4) lubricants, coolants and hydraulic fluids, etc., used in the metalworking industries.

Westfalia oil purifiers, expe- cially designed to handle "dirty" oil, are available in two types: Au- tomatic models (OSA) are self- cleaning types that can operate for long periods of time without re- quiring shutdown for cleaning or maintenance; capacities range up to 5,300 gph. "Take-down" models (OTA) have the reliability of the self-cleaning types but must be halted periodically for cleaning; they are available with capacities up to 4,700 gph.

According to Mr. Wendenburg, oil purification equipment was in- itially purchased as add-on equip- ment, but they are increasingly being specified by designers and engine manufacturers as original equipment. In this way, maximum functional and design efficiencies are realized.

For full information and litera- ture on Westfalia equipment,

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