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Hempel's Consolidates

U.S. Companies Into

Hempel Coatings (U.S.A.)

Poul Knudsen, president of

Hempel's Industrial Coatings and

Hempel's Marine Paints, Inc., has announced the consolidation of all

Hempel's Marine Paints, Inc., in

Wellington, N.J. Hempel's Indus- trial Coatings, Inc. and Hempel

Technology, Inc. in Houston, Tex- as.

The new consolidated company is named Hempel Coatings (U.S.A.)

Inc.

The consolidated companies will enhance the service capabilities of the Hempel Group in the U.S. and will be headquartered in Walling- ton, N.J. and Houston, Texas.

DoD Reports Launching Of

USSR's First Aircraft Carrier

According to a report by the U.S.

Department of Defense, the Soviet

Union recently launched its first true aircraft carrier at a shipyard in

Nikolayev on the Black Sea. Devel- opment of carriers capable of launching jet fighters is a major accomplishment for the Soviet

Navy, said Defense Secretary Cas- par Weinberger. It will provide a more aggressive force that could range far from home.

The 1,000-foot-long, 65,000-ton carrier has a long canted flight deck similar to American carriers. The

Russian ship is believed to be nu- clear-powered. Pentagon sources say that the new carrier will not be fully operational until the early 1990s. A second carrier of the same size, whose existence had not been previously announced, will be ready for launching in about three years.

Infrasonik Receives Order

For Soot-Removal Systems

From U.S. Shipping Line

Infrasonik AB of Finspong, Swe- den, a subsidiary of ASEA STAL, has received an order from a major

U.S. container shipping line, for 11 sets of Infrafone soot-removal equipment for installation in the exhaust gas economizers of the U.S. diesel vessels. The order was re- ceived through ASEA STAL Inc.,

Shawnee, Kan.

The order was placed after exten- sive trials of the equipment onboard the U.S. company's vessels for more than one year. During these trials, other audible sonic removal equip- ment was tested on ships in the same class.

In addition, the company recently received an order for 10 sets of

Infrafone soot-removal equipment from Matson Navigation Company,

U.S. The equipment will be in- stalled in the main steam boilers of

Matson's container vessels.

The Infrafone equipment, which is made by Infrasonik AB, removes soot from main boilers and exhaust gas economizers through the genera- tion of infrasound, airborne pres-

March, 1986 47 sure variations at the low frequency of 20 Hz. The system removes dry soot and dust from all parts of the boiler because of the omnidirection- al reflecting properties of low-fre- quency sound in an enclosed space.

Since the equipment need only be operated intermittently, for exam- ple, only for 20 seconds every five minutes, running costs are kept to a minimum. Moderate investment cost, ease and speed of installation combined with operating savings from boiler efficiency, ensure a short payback period—approxi- mately one year.

Infrafone equipment was launched into the marine market in early 1983 after successful tests in main boilers and waste-heat recov- ery boilers. Over 125 marine units have now been installed on vessels from France, Italy, Norway, Swe- den, Belgium, the U.K., the U.S.,

Japan, etc. Infrafone equipment has been in use in land-based boilers for over five years and more than 450 are in operation throughout the world.

For further information on the

Infrafone soot-removal system from

Infrasonik AB,

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