2014 Articles
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- GEA’s CatFineMaster Debuts at SMM page: 70
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Maritime Reporter
on October 2014A solution for separating dangerous catalyst fines (cat fines) from fuel with one touch of the button, the new product CatFineMaster from GEA Westfalia Separator Group was presented for the first time at the SMM 2014. The new CatFineMaster system consists of a separator as the core element and a fee
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- BMT Showcases Monitoring Portfolio page: 68
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Maritime Reporter
on October 2014BMT SMART Ltd. showcased its performance monitoring portfolio at this year’s SMM. The SMART suite of solutions works by continually collecting vessel performance data and presenting key information to the crew via the ship’s computer displays, and BMT SMART’s new web interface offers easy to use das
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on October 2014GAC EnvironHull’s eco-friendly brushless hull cleaning solution, HullWiper, took center stage at the GAC stand at SMM in Hamburg. According to the company the ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) system removes marine fouling from ship hulls up to five times faster than traditional methods employing dive
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on October 2014Calnetix Technologies highlighted a new system developed with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Marine Machinery and Engine company (MHI-MME) that captures heat from marine engine jacket water and converts it to electricity for shipboard consumption. The Hydrocurrent system produces up to 125 kW of power
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- Meet the Transas T-Bridge page: 68
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Maritime Reporter
on October 2014Transas Marine expanded its product portfolio with the launch of the T-Bridge, an integrated navigation system that meets professional bridge equipment with aviation, automation and tablet technology. The T-bridge is designed to bring together diverse systems into a single bridge environment, where
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- Alfa Laval Launches PureSOx 2.0 page: 67
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Maritime Reporter
on October 2014Alfa Laval’s PureSOx is an emissions scrubber, an alternative for complying with the sulfur limits imposed by MARPOL Annex VI and its guideline MEPC 184(59). With January 2015 and the enforcement of Emission Control Areas (ECAs) rapidly approaching, Alfa Laval has launched a new generation of the sc
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on October 2014W&O is one of the partners that supported Vigor in the $40m project to build and deliver the largest floating drydock in the U.S. – Vigor Industrial’s Vigorous – which was delivered recently to its new home in Portland on the Willamette River. W&O provided an actuated valve solution for the ballas
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on October 2014Teekay Couplings launched its new Teekay Plastlock Pipe Coupling at SMM in Hamburg, Germany. Designed to enable simple, rapid and permanent joining of plain-ended plastic pipes, the product is designed to greatly increase the ability of the marine industry to specify plastic pipes in builds and ther
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- Bestobell Extends Valve Range page: 65
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Maritime Reporter
on October 2014Bestobell Marine, part of the President Engineering Group Ltd. now offers both butt weld and flanged connections for all its Globe and Check valves. These valves range from small (DN15) to large (DN350). Valves with flanged connections are particularly in demand with the Japanese and Korean shipbui
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- Georg Fischer Piping DWV Fittings page: 65
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Maritime Reporter
on October 2014W&O announced new fittings for the Georg Fischer SeaCor marine thermoplastic piping system. The addition of Schedule 80 drain waste and vent (DWV) fittings will complete the current product offering for SeaCor Schedule 80 thermoplastic pipe. Customers will now have access to a complete thermoplastic
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on October 2014Van Heck started in 1964 as a one man operation to build and develop pumps and services to the dredging industry. Driven by innovation and its reputation, the company expanded into the offshore industry boom of the 1980s and its expertise grew as it helped tackle the challenges set by this specialis
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- Leistritz Debuts Three New Pumps page: 64
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Maritime Reporter
on October 2014The offshore oil and gas industry uses Floating Production, Storage and Off-loading (FPSO) vessels to process and store gas or oil until it can be unloaded onto tankers or forwarded through a pipeline. Leistritz Screw Pumps are responsible for boosting the produced water into a hydro cyclone where t
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- GreenSteam Optimizer on Display page: 63
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Maritime Reporter
on October 2014GreenSteam, a developer of marine fuel efficiency and optimization systems, showcased its fuel saving GreenSteam Optimizer, an onboard adaptive, data-driven decision support system. Consisting of two small radars installed in the bridge wings and a touch screen console which connects to wind and flo
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- Wärtsilä’s LNGPac: AIP from DNV GL page: 63
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Maritime Reporter
on October 2014The new Wärtsilä LNGPac, the upgraded version of the company’s LNG fuel handling system, was granted an AIP (Approval in Principle) Certificate from DNV GL. The AIP Certificate covers Wärtsilä’s improvements to the original LNGPac. The new solution has removed the heating media skid and its pumps,
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Maritime Reporter
on October 2014Schottel presented new solutions focusing on offshore applications and hybrid concepts. The new underwater mountable azimuth thruster SRP 9000 LSU (4,800 – 5,500 kW) takes into account the tough conditions offshore and helps reduce docking times. The SRP 9000 LSU is an utmost robust and reliable dri
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on October 2014Hatz Diesel presented the concept study of the new 4H50TIC as a marine version at SMM. The engine has been manufactured in series production since the beginning of 2014 and is designed primarily for use in construction machinery, as well as for stationary and mobile applications. The engine has be
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- SBG Miniature Inertial Sensors page: 59
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Marine Technology
on October 2014SBG Systems released the Ellipse Series, a new product range of miniature inertial systems replacing the IG-500 Series. For the same budget, customers benefit from higher accuracy, advanced filtering and features inspired from high end inertial navigation systems. This new series of miniature inert
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Marine Technology
on October 2014Chesapeake Technology Inc. (CTI), a producer of real-time sonar acquisition and GIS based processing software for seafloor mapping, announced two new capabilities that it claims will allow users to better organize sonar contacts and improve sonar mosaic accuracy. New Contact Rationalizing, available
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Marine Technology
on October 2014Hydro-Lek delivered two five-function manipulators to Italian ROV manufacturer, Ageotec, for the Italian Navy for submarine research and rescue. The manipulators are fitted onto a Pegaso ROV system which also includes a motorized winch, silenced diesel power generator as well as a USBL and sonar sys
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- Bowtech Lamp Range Extended page: 59
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Marine Technology
on October 2014Bowtech Products Ltd., a producer of subsea vision systems, announced the arrival of the LED-S-Series lamp, a smaller, 10,000 lumen version of its 20,000 lumen LED-V-Series underwater floodlight. The LED-S-Series lamp has been designed to offer a smaller, lighter and lower lumen output than its LED-