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Coast Guard And Navy

To Hold Joint

Fire Research Program

The U.S. Coast Guard recently announced that it will begin joint shipboard fire protection research, development and testing with the

U.S. Navy at the Coast Guard Fire and Safety Test Detachment at Mo- bile, Ala., early this year.

The two services will share oper- ating costs and equipment and the

Navy will provide its own staff. The

Navy will tow a decommissioned dock landing ship, the former USS

Shadwell, to the Mobile facility, where full-scale fire testing is con- ducted. It will be used as a military fire test ship and be positioned on

Little Sand Island in Mobile Bay next to two former merchant ships—a tanker and a cargo ship— used by the Coast Guard in their research.

The addition of a Navy ship will reduce costs by eliminating the need to modify the merchant ships for military tests. When engaging in fire protection research for military ships, it becomes necessary to modi- fy the commercial ships to resemble the configuration of the military vessels. The testing program will be used to improve fire protection on

Coast Guard cutters as well as Navy ships. for melting any metal (aluminum, bronze, copper, stainless and zinc) and spraying it in a molten state onto any other material, creating a permanent bond.

This system is used to control cor- rosion, to build up worn parts and to create thermal and electrical bar- riers. It protects iron and steel from corrosion and may last in excess of 15 years. Metal thermal spray coat- ings are excellent corrosion under- coatings for organic materials such as paint and plastic finishes.

The Navy has been testing metal thermal spray for over 20 years and is now using this technique for cor- rosion control and metal parts buildup on their vessels. Ceramic coatings and electrical emission con- trol are additional advantages of this system.

PBI reports it is the only shipyard in the Central United States certi- fied to perform metal thermal spray in accordance with Mil Standard

DOD-2138-SH. Using the latest state-of-the-art equipment, PBI can conduct metal thermal spraying op- erations at their new facility or at a specified job site.

For further information on Peter- son Builders' new facility and metal thermal spraying,

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Free Report Details

Gas-Fired Boiler

Fuel Savings

Modifying gas-fired drum boilers to improve turndown and cyclic shutdown capability for reduced fuel costs is the topic of a Bailey

Control technical paper titled "Trinidad Unit 6—A Case History of a Control System Retrofit."

Included are illustrations showing performance curves, cost differen- tials and control strategies imple- mented on a tangentially gas-fired boiler owned by Texas Power &

Light.

Bailey Controls, Wickliffe, Ohio, is a division of Babcock & Wilcox, and a leading worldwide supplier of instrumentation, controls, and com- puter systems for power generation, process automation and energy management in the petrochemical, electric utility and process indus- tries. Babcock & Wilcox is a major operating unit of McDermott Incor- porated, a subsidiary of McDermott

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Peterson Builders Receives

Navy Certification Of

Metal Spray Facility

Peterson Builders, Inc., (PBI),

Sturgeon Bay, Wise., has announced the certification of their metal ther- mal spray facility and metal thermal spray operators by the Naval Sea

Systems Command, Washington,

D.C.

Metal thermal spray is a system