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MSC Awards Biospherics

Contract For 40 Oilarms — Option For 40 More

Biospherics Incorporated, Rock- ville, Md., known for its rugged sewage treatment plant instru- mentation, is going to sea with a versatile new oil discharge moni- tor, the Oilarm. Applying its know- how for making things work in harsh environments, the firm has turned out a tough, well-tested and economical device approved by the U.S. Coast Guard.

Biospherics was awarded a con- tract for the Oilarm by the U.S.

Navy's Military Sealift Command.

Under terms of the award, Bios- pherics will supply a minimum of 40 Oilarms with an option for an additional 40. Spare parts, options and other aspects of the award constitute a potential sales value of approximately $250,000. The

Biospherics bid was part of a larger one by the prime contractor, Sigma

Treatment Systems, Inc., Chester

Springs, producer of the oily water separator selected by the MSC to separate the oil prior to discharge of the bilgewater. "We are pleased at the dollar value of the sale," said Dr. Gilbert

V. Levin, Biospherics' president. "But we put even greater stock in the fact that the Biospherics in- strument was selected for the first fleet purchase of oil-in-water detectors."

Virtually all vessels in excess of 10,000 gross tons will have to in- stall oil-in-water separatory and detection equipment. Overboard discharges of more than 100 parts per million of oil at sea and 15 parts per million in coastal waters and harbors are prohibited by the recently ratified United Nations

Maritime Treaty.

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Aeroquip Offers Catalog

On Hydraulic Cylinders

Aeroquip Corporation's T-J Di- vision announces the availability of Series SH Hydraulic Cylinder

Catalog, No. 4055. This catalog contains information on Aeroquip's complete line of cushioned and non-cushioned, high-pressure hy- draulic cylinders. Cylinder sizing, selection data, and maintenance information are included in its 136 pages.

Aeroquip Series SH cylinders are NFPA interchangable, featur- ing hard chrome bodies and piston rods at no extra cost. The QC-100 quick-change rod bearing is a standard Aeroquip cylinder fea- ture, permitting easy replacement of rod seals without disassembling the complete cylinder.

Customers may choose from 22 mounting styles and a wide vari- ety of bore sizes, ranging from IV2 through 14 inches, with 3,000 psi nominal pressure rating.

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