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$2M Grant for Floating Wind Tech and the new ballast water treatment system.

EMI and W&O work collaboratively with the client, and the BWT equipment manufacturer to determine what valves and piping are needed to install the BWT system, and to develop proto- cols to provide a ‘handshake’ between the ballast control valve automation system and ballast water treatment. This handshake ensures the two systems are communicating, and that the valves and pumps are correctly confgured prior to starting/stopping ballast treatment operations.

The system consists of a Touchscreen and Bal- last Control Panel. The touch screen provides the

Aker Solutions operator an interface using virtual pushbuttons and

The California Energy Commission awarded Aker Solutions gauge displays for real-time control and indication and Cognite a $2 million grant for a project called NextWind of device states throughout the barge. The Valve

Real-Time Condition Monitoring, which is focused on next-gen

Control Panel is the core of the system. Power solutions in wind through digitalization and aims to develop a is supplied to the panel from the vessel’s main holistic digital solution that will enable monitoring the condition 115VAC switchboard. of an offshore foating wind farm and its impact on the environ-

The panel includes a PLC with associated I/O ment via live data streaming. According to Aker Solutions, a digital module to receive input signals from the HMI in twin model of physical offshore wind assets will be developed to the control room. The PLC processes the input assess conditions and integrity management, real-time information signals, generates appropriate output signals, that will allow access and analysis of data. “We believe applying sends those signals to the valves, and communi- new digital technologies is key to accelerating the green transition cates valve status to the HMI over an Ethernet and increasing adoption of sustainable solutions in offshore wind network. EMI can provide systems with a variety by making them more cost-effective and effcient,” said Dr. John of communication protocols to match vessel and

Markus Lervik, CEO and co-founder of Cognite.

BWT equipment requirements, including Modbus,

In April 2018, the Redwood Coast Energy Authority selected a

PROFIBUS, PROFINET, AS-i, and DeviceNet. consortium which includes Aker Solutions, Principle Power and

The panel includes a 24VDC power supply, UPS,

EDPR Offshore to enter into a public-private partnership to pursue and battery to provide power to the system in case the development of the proposed Redwood Coast Offshore Wind of loss of main power.

Project. The 100-150 MW foating offshore wind farm is planned

A set of relays drive remote and local audible to be located more than 30 km off the coast and is expected online outputs in the case of a system fault.

in the mid 2020’s.

Framo Oil Skimmer MAN ES for Type 31 Novel Workboat Stabilizer Record-breaking LNG Bunker

Framo introduced a customiz- MAN ES won a contract to sup- DACOMA and Tuco Marine have Heerema’s Sleipnir received able oil skimmer based on its ply MAN Alpha VBS Mk 5 CP joined forces to test the Airkeel the largest LNG bunkering

TransRec platform. The new propeller systems for 5 frigates technology on Tuco’s ProZero ever completed. Titan LNG solution allows customers to to be constructed by Babcock workboat range. The Airkeel is performed the bunkering, us- specify a range of options to International Group. Each a novel stabilizer for work- and ing the Coral Fraseri, Anthony tailor their systems to ft their 138.7-m twin screw vessel, crewboats for the offshore Veder’s LNG carrier in the Port operational requirements. rated at more than 16,000 kW industries developed and built of Rotterdam. Almost 3,300 mt per shaftline. by DACOMA. of LNG was delivered.

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