Mechanical Equipment
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- Rose Named Vice President Of Mechanical Equipment's Marine Products Group Maritime Reporter, Sep 1984 #47
Mechanical Equipment Company, Inc. (MECO) of New Orleans has appointed Charles D. Rose vice president of its newly formed Marine Products Group. The announcement was made by MECO president Wil Pergande.
Mr. Rose formerly held vice president positions with Aqua- Chem and Riley Beaird, and brings to MECO a wealth of marine experience in the design and manufacture of desalination plants and heat exchangers.
A 1956 graduate of the U.S.
Merchant Marine Academy, Mr.
Rose sailed aboard several merchant ships before spending four years in the Navy as an engineering duty officer. Following his Navy duty, he joined Davis Engineering as a marine heat exchanger specialist; that company was purchased by Cleaver Brooks in 1963.
Since then he has participated continuously in the advancement of the state of the art of marine desalination and heat transfer.
He is a life member of SNAME, and the author of Chapter 15 in the Society's Marine Engineering textbook, as well as various technical papers. He is also a member of ASNE and MTS, and holds several patents related to evaporation and heat transfer.
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- A.L. Burbank And Co. Named Worldwide Agents For Fuel Savers, Inc. Maritime Reporter, Aug 15, 1978 #13
., it was announced by Victor M. Richel, president. The Marine Thermo- Test Division performs diagnostic inspections of electrical and thermo- mechanical equipment aboard ships. "Our Division uses infrared imaging equipment as a preventive maintenance tool in the marine industry," said Mr. Richel. "We
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- Envirovac Receives Contract To Equip Twelve U.S.C.G. Cutters Maritime Reporter, Nov 1985 #24
equipped with the Envirovac vacuum toilet system. On the ships now containing Envirovac equipment, the toilet system will be upgraded; mechanical equipment will be refurbished, 30 toilets will be replaced and 10 toilets added, and the control system modified to include two new features. On those shi
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- Bryant Named Manager Of McGraw-Edison's New Marine Marketing Dept. Maritime Reporter, Jun 15, 1981 #17
, Fort Lauderdale, Charlotte, N.C., Philadelphia, Baltimore, Fairfield, N.J., and Boston. The service centers specialize in the repair of marine mechanical equipment such as pumps, compressors, turbines, heat exchangers, and valves, and electrical equipment such as motors, generators, and controllers
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- China Shipbuilding Delivers Self-Unloading Cement Carrier Maritime Reporter, Nov 15, 1980 #47
loading capacity of 600 tons per hour and unloading capacity of 400 tons per hour. The cargo-handling system comprises Nordstroms' well-proven mechanical equipment with chains and screw conveyors. The allweather operation is totally enclosed and dust-free between silo and ship. Similar Nordstroms systems ha
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- MECO Offers New Heat Recovery Evaporators —Literature Available Maritime Reporter, Oct 1980 #22
Mechanical Equipment Company, Inc. (MECO), New Orleans, is marketing three new waste heat recovery evaporators for the production of fresh water. Applications include offshore drilling rigs and production platforms, pipelaying barges, tankers, cargo vessels, tugboats, survey ships, etc. The units
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- MECO Has New Line Of Water Desalinators— Literature Available Maritime Reporter, Sep 1980 #73
Mechanical Equipment Company, Inc. (MECO), New Orleans, has developed a new line of packaged water desalination equipment, the Water-Wizard reverse osmosis water maker. Ten models are available ranging in capacities from 1,300 to 30,000 gallons of fresh water per day, with dry weights from 1
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- Hagglunds/ASEA Gets $5.5-Million Order From Baker Marine Maritime Reporter, Jul 1980 #30
motors. The division is a unit of ASEA Inc., wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of ASEA AB, Swedish-based worldwide manufacturer of electrical and mechanical equipment. The contract specifies the largest Hagglunds motor, 10 gallons displacement, with a double-acting band brake bracket for delivery during
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- Navy Awards EAC A Contract To Inspect Carrier Fleet Equipment Maritime Reporter, Nov 1981 #101
, Montclair, N.J., an infrared scanning inspection company, has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy to perform infrared electrical and mechanical equipment inspections on all of the aircraft carriers in the United States fleet. Steven L. Miller, director of marketing, reports that this is the
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- Riverway Completes Second Drydock For Its Own Repair Division Maritime Reporter, Jul 15, 1981 #27
walls. The hull is 7 feet deep and has four watertight compartments. The wing walls are 18 feet high. Lifting capacity is 1,000 tons. Mechanical equipment includes four Byron Jackson 12-inch deepwell pumps with 10-hp electric motors, and four Beebe 5-ton hand winches. The dock is lowered by
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- Meco's " T a r g a " Technology Boosts Water Maker Efficiency Maritime Reporter, Sep 1985 #45
, equipped with a patented feedwater treatment system called Targa that is said to cut operating costs by up to 30 percent, has been introduced by Mechanical Equipment Company, Inc. (MECO) of New Orleans. The new Targa technology involves mixing a portion of the vent gases with boiling salt water that has
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- MTR100: Tritech International Marine Technology, Aug 2016 #52
suite of imaging and now profiling sonars. From the company’s imaging ranges (mechanical and multibeam), to bathymetric sensors, to hydraulic and mechanical equipment, Tritech is able to support many subsea applications from the traditional ROV/ AUV markets to aquaculture and cave diving. Tritech offers
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 45ronments. The new agreement will address speci? c techni- cal gaps in the UUV defense and offshore energy markets especially for long duration, multi-payload mission opera- tions where communications are often denied or restricted. As part of the new alliance, Metron’s Resilient Mission Autonomy portfolio
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 42NEW TECH OCEANOLOGY INTERNATIONAL 2024 Image courtesy Greg Trauthwein Image courtesy BIRNS MacArtney launches the new ultra-compact ø12.7 mm SubConn Nano connector. Innovative connectivity built on 45 years of ? eld-proven and market-trusted design. Image courtesy MacArtney Birns celebrated its 70th
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 32FEATURE SEABED MINING by a sea? oor plume from its pilot collection system test. pact, nodule collection system that utilizes mechanical and The Metals Company recently signed a binding MoU with hydraulic technology. Paci? c Metals Corporation of Japan for a feasibility study on The company’s SMD
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 25Auerbach explained that ideally, “one ? ed layers of geothermal activity,” noted changes over an area of 8,000 km2. They would have both instruments: seismom- Skett, “and the change in salinity and dis- found up to seven km3 of displaced ma- eters to detect and locate subsurface ac- solved particles for
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 47MARKETPLACE Products & Services www.MaritimeEquipment.com Powering the fleet for 60 years! HYDRAULIC NOISE, SHOCK AND VIBRATION SUPPRESSOR Noise, Shock, VibraO on & PulsaO on in Quiet, Smooth Flow Out Oil Bladder Nitrogen (blue) Manufactured by MER
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 43“The industry is an ecosystem which includes owners, managers, mariners, shipyards, equipment makers, designers, research institutes and class societies: all of them are crucial,” – Eero Lehtovaara, Head of Regulatory & Public Affairs, ABB Marine & Ports All images courtesy ABB Marine and Ports provi
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 42OPINION: The Final Word Seeing the Ship as a System Shipping must engage with the decarbonization realities that lie ahead by changing the way it crafts maritime legislation to re? ect its place in the interconnected, interdependent world economy, said Eero Lehtovaara, ABB Marine & Ports. ABB Marine &
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 35SIMULATION e have a close relationship with tech- Realism is prized beyond immersive, photo-realistic visu- nology, evidenced by, for example, als, and providers are introducing increasingly accurate func- the phones we are estimated to un- tionality. FORCE Technology’s upcoming DEN-Mark2 math- lock around
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 33CRANES & OFFSHORE WIND HLP is developing a crane that will enable tower HLP is developing a crane that will enable pieces to be stacked components such as towers to be stacked in multiple layers on vertically in marshalling areas. installation vessels. HLP is developing a ring crane capable of 6
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 25RADM PHILIP SOBECK, MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND Photo by Brian Suriani USN Military Sealift Command From a global supply chain perspective, What makes MSC so vital to the we’ve learned a lot about dealing with Navy’s ? eet and our military disruptions. COVID delivered a big forces around the world? wake-up
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 16MARKETS SOVs – Analyzing Current, Future Demand Drivers By Philip Lewis, Director of Research, Intelatus © Björn Wylezich/AdobeStock t a high-level, there are three solutions to transferring Lower day rate CTVs are often used for daily transfer of technicians from shore bases to offshore wind farms
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 15hydro-acoustic design of a propulsor that delays cavitation meets its underwater noise limits. This will require specialized inception and cavitating area. The third approach should be test sites or specialized mobile underwater testing equipment. isolation mounting of a vibro-active equipment and
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 14Book Review Approach to Meeting Underwater Radiated Noise Limits Def ned By Raymond Fischer uantitative underwater radiated noise limits will construction inspections, 5) possible training with respect to be developed shortly by IMO, and/or countries salient design/construction essentials, 6) compliance
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 13from gasoline to methanol, but compared to just buying an EV After some pondering, I think I can reduce it to this logi- today that is a pointless exercise. It would actually make more cal sequence: sense to buy a plug-in hybrid that is con? gured for methanol It is the carbon. We want zero carbon as
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 12Back to the Drawing Board When Efficiency Does Not Help Sustainability By Rik van Hemmen y brother and I had a discussion about methanol This study concluded that the Toyota Prius Prime is the green- where we concluded that methanol is a prom- est car you can buy in the United States. ising sustainable
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 8Training Tips for Ships © By tuastockphoto/AdobeStock Tip #58 Enhancing Behavior-Based Safety By Murray Goldberg, CEO, Marine Learning Systems ave you ever heard the term “Behaviour-Based environment where each individual feels personally respon- Safety”? Although the term itself is relatively sible for
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 7REGISTER NOW Seawork celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2024! The 25th edition of Europe’s largest commercial marine and workboat exhibition, is a proven platform to build business networks. Seawork delivers an international audience of visitors supported by our trusted partners. Seawork is the
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 42, 2024. Doug Meegan as interim opera- tions manager for the facility. Odyssey Names Ziomek COO AME Hires Savage Odyssey Logistics appointed Mi- Advanced Mechanical Enterpris- chael Ziomek as chief operating of- es (AME) has appointed Paul Sav- ? cer effective December 11, 2023. age as its new operations manager
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 39There are ? ve major paint catego- lenges in shipyards is managing small building is a multifaceted endeavor ries in new construction shipbuilding: parts, which are prone to surface rust that demands integrative systems before installation. Optimizing the planning, as well as adoption of new 1.
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 38set of intricate challenges. Tankers, for example, emphasize the through- put of steel and panel processing, while destroyers focus on electrical and mechanical systems, including combat sys- tems. These differences highlight the importance of a nu- anced understanding of each vessel type, enabling a more
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 33Feature Electric Tugs ing tug design. ABB was brought on as systems integrator, and Coden, Ala. shipbuilder Master Boat Builders began building the vessel later that year. The result of these efforts is the 82-foot-long tug eWolf, built to ABS class and is compliant with U.S. Coast Guard Subchapter M
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 21Feature Navigation “Wind Turbines: The Bigger, the Better” – USDOE Of? ce of Energy Ef? ciency & Renewable Energy, August 24, 2023 ast December the Bureau of Ocean Energy Man- Agencies write: we want to advance wind energy, but ocean agement (BOEM) published a proposed sale no- areas can only yield so
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 19• Investment in Infrastructure and Onshoring Man- sharing best practices. Additionally, given the global nature ufacturing: The administration is committing over $20 of maritime operations, international cooperation is essen- billion towards U.S. port infrastructure over the next tial for establishing