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Todd-CEA Awarded Inert

Gas Generator Contract

Todd-CEA, Inc., a division of

Combustion Equipment Associ- ates Inc., New York, N.Y., has been awarded a contract by Avon- dale Shipyards, Inc., New Orleans,

La., a subsidiary of the Ogden

Corporation, for the design and construction of three 7000 scfm inert gas generators for LNG carriers now under construction for El Paso Natural Gas Co.

Under a joint venture arrange- ment, the generators will be de- signed by Deutsche Babcock &

Wilcox A.G., a German firm with extensive experience in the inert gas field, and will be constructed by Todd-CEA in the United

States.

Major generator components will include (1) a combustor which will burn No. 2 diesel fuel with less than 1 percent sulfur to generate inert gas consisting of 85 percent nitrogen and 15 per- cent carbon dioxide; (2) a scrub- ber which will remove sulfur di- oxide from the inert gas. Sulfur dioxide content will be less than 50 ppm. Sea water will be used as the scrubbing media; (3) a heat exchanger which will cool the inert gas from 90 to 45 F, and (4) a twin-tower desiccant drier which will dry the gas to — 50 F dewpoint. Gas will leave the drier at about 5.5 psig for distribution to cargo tanks, tank insulation spaces, and voids adjacent to the tanks. Oxygen content will be less than 1 percent.

Todd-CEA has more than 50 years of experience as a burner manufacturer while CEA, its parent company, has extensive experience in the production of scrubbers, heat exchangers, and industrial processing equipment.

Roger G. Kline Joins

David J. Seymour Assoc.

Firm Of Naval Architects

Roger G. Kline

Roger G. Kline has joined the firm of David J. Seymour & As- sociates, naval architects and ma- rine consultants, serving the ma- rine industry in a broad range of marine design and consulting, with particular emphasis on de- velopment of new marine sys- tems. Offices are located at Suite 330, World Trade Center, San

Francisco, Calif. 94111.

Mr. Kline received his B.S. de- gree in naval architecture from the University of Michigan in 1957, and a Master of Engineer- ing degree in naval architecture from the University of California,

Berkeley. His experience in the marine field includes five years as a naval architect in the U.S.

Maritime Administration, Office of Ship Construction, and 13 years with U.S. Steel Corpora- tion's Applied Research Labora- tory, where he developed design criteria, structural configurations and economic feasibility studies for applying higher strength steels in ship construction. He has done considerable research in structural dynamics for solution of ship vibration problems.

Mr. Kline is currently serving on The Society of Naval Archi- tects and Marine Engineers' Pan- els HS-1, Hull Loading; HS-4,

Design Procedure and Philosophy and on the Maritime Transporta- tion Research Board and National

Materials Advisory Board com- mittees. He has authored several technical papers including "Ap- plication of Higher Strength

Steels to Great Lakers Vessels,"

Marine Technology, July 1966; "The Dynamic Response of Ships'

Hulls as Influenced by Propor- tions, Arrangements, Loading and

Structural Stiffness," SNAME

Spring Meeting 1967; "Some As- pects of Ship Stiffness," Trans- actions SNAME, 1967; "Propeller-

Excited Ship Vibration," SNAME

Northern California Section,

March 1971, and "Tanker Struc- tural Analysis for Minor Colli- sions," to be presented at the

SNAME 1974 Annual Meeting.

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