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niques in shipyards; and analyzing manpower estimating and control procedures. Contract amount: $340,000. • Shipbuilding Flexible Manu- facturing Program, sponsored by

Todd Pacific Shipyards Corp. Pro- jects include reviewing flexible automation technology applica- tions for shipyards and developing a device to mark plates cut by com- puter numerically controlled burn- ing machines. Contract amount: $340,000. • Surface Preparation and Coat- ings Program, sponsored by Avon- dale Shipyards, Inc. Projects in- clude defining and standardizing requirements, testing and proce- dures for the certification of weld procedures through shop primers; determining the effect of contami- nants on coating performance; studying the cost effectiveness of flame-sprayed coatings for ship- board corrosion control; and estab- lishing the feasibility of the auto- mated painting of pipe pieces, wire ways, hangers and other small parts. Contract amount: $499,000. • Shipbuilding Standards Pro- gram, sponsored by Bath Iron

Works. Projects include develop- ing comprehensive drafts of cable- way standards for surface ships and standard practice for the se-

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Oil Content Monitor

Offered By Salwico —Literature Available

The Salwico Controil is an infra- red type oil content monitor for oil in ballast water from tankers that is notable for its ease of use and sim- plicity of installation, yet with so- phisticated functional ability. The portable hand-held control terminal can be deployed wherever conven- ient.

A product of Salen & Wincandler

AB of Sweden, the Controil is fully approved under IMO Resolution

A. 393 (X) and also satisfies the design criteria of IMO Resolution

A.496 (XII). It is available for both retrofitting and newbuildings. Only three small penetrations are re- quired between safe and hazardous areas—two for the 8-mm sampling pipes and one for the sample feed pump drive.

Water drawn by the sample feed pump from the overboard discharge line is screened for solids before a small portion of the flow is intermit- tently drawn off by a secondary sampling pump in the analyzing unit, situated on the gas-free side of the bulkhead. PPM signals are passed through a two-wire commu- nication loop to the computing unit, which also comprises a display and an alphanumeric printer. The hand- held control terminal, also used for operator input, can be plugged in virtually anywhere on the communi- cation loop.

The flow meter (required only for "new ships" as defined by IMO) is an ultrasonic flow meter or a differ- ential pressure-sensing flow meter.

The two models complement each other, and selection of the flow me- ter is dependent upon price, loca- tion of installation, type of cargo, system design, and accuracy re- quired.

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