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Product & System Innovations

EMI: Automating Ballast Ops When Installing BWMS

Installing ballast water treatment ated valves, but no automation of the modifcations and additional valves to systems to comply with new regulations ballast system. EMI has been working isolate, bypass, and engage ballast water will require owners to automate ballast with parent company W&O to provide treatment systems. Many of the legacy operations on board their vessels or blue water barges with innovative solu- remote operated valve control systems barges. Retroftting ballast water treat- tions to add automation functionality to on board do not have the capability to ment systems generally requires modi- their feet. automate operations, and in many cases, fcations to the existing ballast systems. When ballast water treatment systems are not expandable to control the newly

Many older vessels have remote oper- are added to vessels, it requires piping added valves. Working closely with customers, EMI has designed solutions to replace legacy systems with custom new hardware and software that can automate a variety of modes of opera- tion. Using visually intuitive graph- ics and onscreen prompts, EMI can provide single touch control to initiate a predefned sequence of turning on/off pumps and opening or closing valves for modes such as Warm up, Ballasting,

De-ballasting, Can Flushing and Bypass operations. The sequences are custom tailored to the client’s needs, based on the piping confguration, ballast treat- ment type and customer procedures on board.

Manufacturers of ballast water treat- ment systems are often unwilling to relinquish control of the valves in their systems, and unable to take control of valves and pumps outside of their equip- ment scope of supply due to regulatory constraints, leaving a gap in controls between the legacy valve control system

Photo: EMI/W&O

Phoenix Lighting Floodlights Valmet Automation Schottel Propulsion MAN ES Propulsion Package

When USNS Comfort was de- Valmet will supply Valmet DNA Jan De Nul ordered a heavy MAN Energy Solutions won the ployed to New York to provide automation and information lift crane vessel capable of order to supply six MAN B&W

COVID-19 relief, the Navy re- systems for two 113 x 20.2 lifting 5,000mt from the CMHI 9S50ME-C9.6 Tier II-compliant quired an LED upgrade of hull m, 157-pax. luxury expedition Haimen China. It will sport main engines for three 238-m perimeter and waterline secu- vessels being built by Helsinki Schottel propulsion package, RoRo vessels for Finnlines rity lighting. The Navy looked Shipyard Oy for Russia’s largest including 4 rudderpropellers, PLC. MAN ES licensee Hyundai to Phoenix Lighting to deliver river cruise company Vodohod 2 retractable rudderpropellers Heavy Industries Co. will build

ModCom 2 LED foodlights, Ltd. and 2 transverse thrusters. the engines in Korea, 54 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • May 2020