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An Alfa Laval Aalborg OS-TCi boiler ? tted with a gas burner. from Alfa Laval, Touch Control is in use ? eet of 21 tankers operating worldwide, at the Alfa Laval Test & Training Center, with a particular concentration through- where it steers the Center’s own boilers out the Mediterranean region. In recent and aids the continuous development years, the company has been focused on and improvement of systems for new improving environmental standards, es- boiler types, the Touch Control rig being pecially with regard to minimizing CO2 used to show the many ways in which production and fuel waste and therefore boiler operation can be optimized. taking part in a pilot project to evaluate

The system is PLC-based, which gives the AFEM was a natural ? t for it.

it plug-and-play simplicity and high Valle di Navarra, a 40,000 DWT prod- durability in the engine room, and with uct carrier built in 2002, was selected as coverage for all major bus interfaces the test vessel. The ship sails primarily in it is easily connected to onboard com- the Mediterranean, with gasoil and gaso- munication systems. Similarly, it can line cargo. Compared to similar vessels be quickly retro? ted to an existing Alfa with Smit Combustion systems, the Valle

Laval Aalborg OL, OS-TCi or OC-TCi di Navarra discharges frequently – up to boiler, which has already been done on three times a week – which provided Alfa a number of tanker vessels. It also of- Laval with ample statistical information on fers the ? exibility of ? rmware upgrades, the AFEM’s performance and reliability.

which will let the system adapt to new Data collection was one reason that needs as they arise. Alfa Laval decided on a particularly long pilot program, but guaranteeing the car- go’s safety and reliable availability was

Smit Inert Gas Systems

The Alfa Laval Automatic Fuel Ef? - even more important: ciency Module (AFEM) is a new modi- “The AFEM modi? cation is part of the ? cation for reducing the fuel consump- inert gas generator’s combustion control tion of Alfa Laval Smit Combustion inert circuitry,” said Mart Blankert, Manager gas systems by ensuring the inert gas Customer Support, Inert Gas Systems at that keeps cargo safe during of? oading Alfa Laval. “A failed module could pre- is only generated in the exact amounts vent cargo from being discharged, mean- required. In a two-year pilot project, the ing expensive delays in port. Working

AFEM allowed Italian shipping company with potentially volatile cargo, we took

Navigazione Montanari S.p.A. to achieve our time with the pilot to ensure that ev- average fuel savings of 30 per cent. erything functioned as intended.”

Based in Fano on the Adriatic Sea, Nav- Alfa Laval’s engineers provided re- igazione Montanari owns and manages a sponsive assistance and support to en-

U- and I-designed PureSOx units used for desulfurization process development work at the Alfa Laval Test & Training Center in Aalborg, Denmark. 70 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • MAY 2017

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