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Three Pyro exhaust economizers.

Water power

From ballast water savings, Urke delves into his new “power-generation” system, saying without pause that 1,300 kW of waste energy can be converted into 150 kW of residual electric power using his system. “The ef? ciency isn’t good, but the (alternative) is to waste it.”

Meanwhile, the waste energy on a 240

Photo: handout m drill ship of six, 7.2 kW engines — like the one Ulmatec customer Maersk percent fuel savings a year.” a “typical offshore vessel” in a tropical “The system onboard is so easy to un- is building in the Far East — converts “This is a (self-censor) engine showing area, where it seems a 90 percent fuel derstand. It’s only heat exchangers. The into a lot of extra electric power. Some 26 percent energy utilization,” he says, savings is attained using Pyro energy crew onboard don’t have to deal with 72 million kroner a year in fuel and 30 adding, “Here’s the calculation for the management. Make that 26 percent in lamps and UV and heavy ? ltration and million kroner in saved NOx emissions, fuel.” He shows 6,283 kW going into “northern areas” and 30 percent in the start and stop of ballasting. Just heat up

Urke insists. The mobile driller needs it. an engine along with 656 l of fuel. The arctic when running a Pyro waste energy and cool down, that’s it.”

Onboard, they use “95o C water, cool- evidence is “damning”. “Sixty percent of management system with heating. A normal Pyro heat recovery system ing water and electric energy” and crews the energy is wasted,” Urke says. A 2.5 In the old days, the cooling system for four engines costs about 500,000 kro- need power in the range of 150 kW to kW engine run at about 50 percent load pumped water at a ? xed rate “all the time”. ner, “If you want a heating system and 600 kW. A kilowatt is 600 l in fuel use looks to cost about $2 million per year to Pyro software made in an Ulmatec factory you add high-temperature heat recovery (per year), he says. “That’s huge. It’s run “per engine”. along with heat-exchanger parts manages without exhaust gas (heating). The pay- amazing, and they say they’ll get ? ve Urke then turns to the fuel savings of water use according to ship needs back time is three to ? ve months.” www.marinelink.com 55

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