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Ellicott Machine Corporation

Announces Personnel Changes

Richard E. Bowe, chairman of the board and president of Ellicott Machine Corporation, and Charles D. Little, president of Ellicott

Machine Corporation International, have an- nounced the following three promotions and one hiring at Ellicott's Dredge Division.

Peter A. Bowe to vice president and general manager. Mr. Bowe joined the company in 1982 as secretary-treasurer. He will continue as treasurer of the parent company. Prior to Elli- cott Mr. Bowe worked for the Morgan Guaran- ty Trust Co. of New York as a loan officer in the

Energy Group. He has a B.A. degree from Yale

University and a MBA from Harvard.

P.A. Bowe D.J. Piper

Douglas J. Piper to vice president. In his new position Mr. Piper will oversee the compa- ny's engineering, estimating, and field service activities. Mr. Piper joined Ellicott in 1978 as a project sales engineer, rising to special equip- ment manager in 1982 and contracts manager in 1983. Prior to Ellicott he spent 11 years with

Great Lakes International. He has a B.S. degree in Engineering from the University of Michi- gan.

A.W. McDowell R.R. Rose

Alexander W.K. McDowell to vice presi- dent-sales and new product development. Mr.

McDowell first started with Ellicott in 1966.

He served as field test engineer and project sales engineer before being elected general sales man- ager in 1982. Mr. McDowell is credited as a principal developer of Ellicott's Bucketwheel

Excavator which has become a standard in the dredge mining industry. Mr. McDowell at- tended the U.S. Naval Academy and graduated from Allegheny College with a B.A. in economics and business management. He also attended

George Washington University Graduate School of Engineering.

Ronald R. Rose has joined Ellicott as chief engineer. Mr. Rose has for years been a success- ful independent hydraulic dredge design consul- tant. Prior to that he served in engineering capacities at Mobile Pulley and Kennecott. Mr.

Rose has an engineering degree from Penn

State.

Mr. Bowe and Mr. Little explained that the changes were necessary to guide the Dredge

Division's current growth in existing markets and expansion in new markets such as hopper dredge design, deep-digging bucketwheels, and the application of sophisticated technology to dredge operations.

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ADDSCO Awarded Contract

To Overhaul S/S United States

Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co. (ADDSCO), Mobile, Ala., has concluded a $192- million contract with United States Cruises,

Inc., Seattle, Wash., to modernize the passenger ship United States. The contract, which would mean as many as 1,000 shipyard jobs over a two- year period, is conditioned on the Maritime

Administration approving an application to guarantee 75 percent of the financing of the project under Title XI of the Merchant Marine

Act of 1936.

Newport News Awarded $6-Million Contract Increase

For USS Eisenhower Overhaul

Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock

Company, Newport News, Va., is being awarded a $6,000,000 face value increase by the Naval

Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to prepare for the overhaul, alteration and repair of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN- 69).

The work will be performed on the nuclear- powered aircraft carrier in Newport News, and is expected to be completed in January 1987.

The contract funds would have expired at the end of fiscal year 1985. There were no negotia- tions because of the face value increase. The contract number for the project is N00024-84-

C-2079.

Vapor Corporation Announces

New Sphere Matrix Technology —Literature Available

W.B. Lampert, general product manager,

Heat Exchange Products Division, Vapor Cor- poration, recently announced the introduction of Vapor Sphere Matrix® Technology that is said to improve performance of liquid-to-liquid, shell-and-tube heat exchangers.

The Sphere Matrix heat exchanger is similar to a conventional shell-and-tube exchanger in overall design. However, unlike the conventional exchanger, a series of fluted spheres are uni- formly spaced on a connecting rod and inserted into each tube of a Sphere Matrix heat exchang- er. These inserts serve to interrupt the growth, thereby minimizing the thickness, of the ther- mal boundary layer that develops on the tube side of the heat transfer surface. They also pro- mote better mixing between the boundary layer and the bulk flow in the tube.

On the shellside ft is customary to use solid spheres uniformly spaced on connecting rods that are nestled around the tubes, with point contact between the spheres and the tube. These sphere rods act similarly to minimize the shell-

MM side thermal boundary and to promote better mixing between the boundary layer and the bulk fluid flow. As with the tube inserts, the geometry of the shellside sphere rods can be optimized.

Vapor Corporation will offer limited produc- tion of the new heat exchanger in 1985. Vapor also supplies oil, gas and electric fired steam generators for industrial and marine applica- tions in the U.S. and worldwide.

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