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HERmetiC

Portable cargo control equipment £

ULLAGE LEVEL i OIL LEVELS PRESELECTED FOR TEMPERATURE READINGS

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INTERFACE LEVEL • Oil/Water interface detection • Cargo Temperature detection • Tank ullage gauging • Dry tank dipping • Inert gas sampling • Inert gas pressure detection • Multi level cargo sampling

HERMETIC UTRL A handy por- table battery powered intrin- sicallysafe Ullage. Tempera- ture and oil/water interface detector. Thethree functions combined into a single unit.

The UTI can be used with either the 1" or 4" Hermetic deck valves by a quick dis- connect coupling at lower end.

Buzzer built into reel face for following functions: —Probe in gas/air silent — Probe in oil products continuous tone — Probe in water intermittent tone

Push button for temperature indication in degrees Celsius and tenths of adegree(range- 9,9°C to 99,0°C) on digital instrument. Extension pipe is available for raising instru- ment to zerio ullage level.

Supplied with custom made carrying case. tanksystem a.s

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Computerized

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Review

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Reducing Fuel

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Call For Papers Issued

By SNAME New England

For Computer Symposium

The New England Section of The

Society of Naval Architects and Ma- rine Engineers has issued a call for papers for "Marine Computers '86—A Symposium on Computer

Applications in the Marine Indus- try," to be held April 16-17, 1986, in

Boston, Mass. The goal of the sym- posium is to provide a forum for the presentation of current and future applications of computer hardware and software in the marine indus- try.

Authors are invited to submit ab- stracts and tentative outlines of their potential contributions. Dead- lines are as follows: Abstract and

Tentative Outline (6 copies), April 1, 1985; Tentative Acceptance No- tice, May 15, 1985; Manuscript (5 copies), August 1, 1985; and Final

Acceptance Notice, December 1, 1985.

The following areas of the marine industry and computer technology are of interest; related topics will also be considered.

Design and Engineering; Offshore

Structures; Advanced Marine Vehi- cles; Planning, Fabrication & Con- struction; Cargo Handling, Route

Planning, Monitoring; Computer

Aided Design/Engineering/Manu- facturing; Information Systems and

Data Base Management; Robotics,

Vision Systems; Numerical Control; and Expert Systems, Artificial In- telligence.

Complete information may be had by writing Michael Trianta- fyllou, Technical Chairman, Ma- rine Computers '86, Massachusetts

Institute of Technology, Room 5- 323, Cambridge, Mass. 02139.

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