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TECHNICAL PRODUCTS

Bearing Condition Monitor

Open-up inspections can now be avoided if an AMOT XTS-W+ Bearing

Condition Monitor is installed. The XTS-

W+ is reportedly the first bearing wear monitor to gain approval from MAN

Diesel & Turbo and Germanischer Lloyd after completion of extensive trials on the

Hapag-Lloyd vessel Hanover Express.

The approval will allow ship owners to apply for Survey Arrangement Condition

Monitoring (SACM) if an XTS-W+ is in- stalled and there is a reassurance that the bearings are in good condition. Eliminat- ing unnecessary open-up inspections of the crank train bearings represents huge operating cost savings, since such in- spections are a major cause of premature bearing failure, resulting from mis-as- sembly, ingress of dirt or even physical damage. Because of this MAN Diesel &

Turbo does not recommend unnecessary opening up of the crank train bearings on its 2-stroke low speed engines.

Email: [email protected] 23-in. LED Display Tested to MIL Standards

Comark of- fers the

MDU23, a 23”

UXGA LED backlit dis- play, which can be set at up to 400

NITS at full brightness.

The MDU23 has been tested in accor- dance with IEC 60945, and is ECDIS and

ECDIS-N compliant. In addition, it is fully MIL Tested to MIL-STD 901D grade A, MIL-STD 167- class 1, type A;

MIL-STD-810F; and MILSTD-461E. www.comarkcorp.com

Salwico G2000

AmbientOil Mist Detector

The G2000

Ambient Oil

Mist Detector is developed for monitoring pump rooms, engine and motor rooms and attached onto boilers or diesel engines.

The G2000 is ideal for applications where an instantaneous and accurate re- sponse to oil mist, but also smoke or steam, is required in unattended machin- ery spaces.

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Sound Damping Sandwich

Steel

Antiphon AB introduced a new product for structure borne sound damping; an- tiphon MPM (metal-polymer-metal) foiled, a sheet metal laminate with a thin foil on one side. The core material is two zinc coated sheet steel laminated with an acoustic inner layer to obtain the best struc- ture borne sound damping. MPM foiled makes it possible to use laminated sand- wich systems in more visible environments and also to choose MPM foiled deliber- ately as a decoration material where sound damping is wished for. The thinnest sheets is 1,04 mm where the system consists of two sheet steel of thickness 0,5 mm lami- nated with a 0,04 mm acoustic inner layer.

For aluminum minimum thickness is 1.44 mm. Maximum thickness is 6.1 mm. www.antiphon.se

Bilge Water Solutions Kit

Built by authors of IMO MEPC.1 /Circular 677, the Bilge Water Solu- tions Kit uses patent pending technol- ogy to diagnose OWS problems & help find solutions. It was developed by mariners who authored the new IMO

MEPC.1 / Circular 677. The Kit is de- signed for the demands of shipboard use — and allows crews to identify causes of OWS & OCM malfunction while underway. Based on scientific re- search & field testing, the Kit makes all seven Circular 677 tests easy to use.

The tests include: Non-Emulsified Oil;

Emulsified Oil; Detergents & Alkaline

Solvents; Turbidity Causing Iron Parti- cles; Bacteria/Microbial Composition;

Color/Opacity; and Soot.

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Emerald Princess Cruise

Ship Coated by Hempel

Hempel US has completed a

Hempasil X3 application on the M/V

Emerald Princess that Dry Docked in the Grand Bahamas. This was consid- ered significant by the company as it is the first Hempel sale to Princess

Cruises Lines, a division of Carnival

Corp., the largest cruise ship company in the world. The Hempel team con- veyed the silicone´s fuel saving attrib- utes, resulting in its incorporation of

Hempasil X3. “SeaTrend” Fuel Moni- toring system from Force Technology was a key component of the offer and was included and sold as part of the

Hempasil X3 Program, allowing the client a correct monitoring of the fuel consumption and consequently the pre- cise outcome on fuel saving.

The three-year-old Emerald Princess is one of the largest vessels in the fleet at 113,561 gt. The complete system consisted in 15,200 liters. Even though it is a relatively new vessel, it was de- cided to remove all the original under- water hull coating system consisting of

AF and AC system. The full blast of both the vertical and flat bottom and full application of Hempasil X3, was accomplished in a 10-day period.

A unique aspect of the job was that the Hempasil X3 System was applied with a custom color, Princess Ocean

Green, which is a signature color of the fleet. 3340 Color

MultiFunction Display

Offshore Systems introduced the com- pact Offshore Systems 3340 Color Mul- tiFunction Display, a 95mm sq screen unit with a high resolution sunlight read- able bright full color display for show- ing data from all ships tanks, DC sources and AC sources. Connects to the

NMEA2000 network with a single cable, while function selection is fully flexible with user selectable screen lay- outs. The 3340 MultiFunction Display can accommodate up to 16 each of fuel tanks, fresh water tanks, grey water tanks, black water tanks and oil tanks.

Rolls-Royce MT30

Rolls-Royce achieved full power oper- ation of its first production MT30 pow- ered main turbine generator set delivered to the US Navy. The MT30, delivered to the US Navy for the DDG-1000, USS

Zumwalt program, achieved full power operation at 36 MW during testing at the

US Navy’s land based test site in

Philadelphia.