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PMC Adds To Line of Alarm

And Monitoring Products

Prime Mover Controls (PMC) of

Vancouver, Canada, has added the 8110 Tank Level Monitor to its line of alarm and monitoring products.

This unit is specifically designed to

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Circle 280 on Reader Service Card 62 and fast scan for rapid level indica- tion. Corrections for the irregular- ly shaped tanks found in marine applications are performed using tank shape tables. These tables can be manually entered or created by using one of two automated cal- ibration methods.

MAN B&W Launches New Prep System

MAN B&W Diesel AS, Alpha Diesel has launched its new VBS- type CP propeller system optimizing the coverage of the range of VB and VBS pro- pellers with diameters up to 23 ft. (7 m) and outputs up to 15,000 kW. The VB series — with hub diamters from 480 to 640 mm — features the propeller blade pitch set- ting by a hydraulic servo motor integrated in the

Alpha reduction gearbox.

The VBS series — with hub diamters from 740 to 1,680 mm — features the propeller blade pitch setting by a hydraulic servo motor inte- grated in the propeller hub. With the introduction of VBS 1180, 1380 and 1560, improved propeller coverage is offered to match all cylinder numbers of L40/54, L48/60 and L58/64 four-stroke engines and the two-stroke engine range up to S60MC-C.

For more information on MAN B&W

Circle 20 on Reader Service Card Installation of a VBS propeller.

Dockwise Moves TLP

Ram Powell

Dockwise N.V., operator of a fleet of semi-submersible heavy-lift ves- sels, has been awarded its second contract from Shell for the sea transport of a 370-ft. (113-m) wide tension leg platform (TLP) from the Belleli construction yard in

Taranto, Italy, to the Aker Gulf

Marine yard in the Gulf of Mexico, where completion and outfitting of the TLP will take place. The load-out operation was carried out in four steps. The hull was first skidded from the construction quay onto two barges, moored stern to the quay. The barges were towed to Mar Grande bay, off Taranto, where the floating hull was discharged by means of the float-off method. Subsequently, the TLP was loaded by a float-on operation onto Mighty Servant 2.

The diagonal setting of the 14,500-ton Ram Powell TLP on the 131.2 ft. (40 m) wide Mighty Servant 2 reportedly increased the width of the transport to 370 ft. This resulted in a protrusion of 120 ft. (36.5 m) on each side of the heavy-lift vessel.

Dockwise N.V. operates a fleet of 15 semi-submersible heavy-lift vessels. Nine vessels focus on the oil, gas and petrochemical indus- try, and three on the fully erected container crane and dredging material markets. Three of the vessels are fully operational in spe- cialized fields, of which, two are in the subsea cable laying market and one is involved in luxury yacht transportation.

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