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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 38LANDER LAB #10 Photo courtesy West Mountain Radio Photo courtesy of Clarios/AutoBatteries.com Figure 6 The West Mountain Radio Computerized Battery Analyzer (CBA V) attaches to a Figure 5 laptop by a USB-B cable, and to a battery by Powerpole® Connectors. Exploded view of an AGM lead-acid battery.
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 35Figure 1 A self-righting vehicle design with buoyancy high and weight low, WHOI’s SeaBED AUV captures the attention of a pair of curious Antarctic penguins as it is deployed from the British research vessel James Clark Ross. Vehicle designers allowed for temperature reduction of battery capacity. Recharge
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 33regulated industry in the world.” How- ever, commercial success depends on many factors, not least a predictable OPEX. Over the past four years, SMD has worked with Oil States Industries to calculate cost per tonne ? gures for prospective customers. Patania II uses jet water pumps to Oil States’
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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: 30FEATURE SEABED MINING bilical. It has passive heave compensation which nulli? es the necott. “The focus since then has been on scaling while en- wave, current and vessel motions that in? uence loads in the suring the lightest environmental impact,” says The Metals power umbilical. The LARS can
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 29n January, Norway said “yes” to sea- bed mining, adding its weight to the momentum that is likely to override the calls for a moratorium by over 20 countries and companies such as I Google, BMW, Volvo and Samsung. Those against mining aim to protect the unique and largely unknown ecology of the sea?
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 16TECH FEATURE IMR Image courtesy FORCE Technology OPTIMIZING CATHODIC PROTECTION SURVEY USING NON-CONTACT SENSORS By Svenn Magen Wigen, FORCE Technology he principle behind sacri? cial anodes, which are water structures, reducing the need for frequent repairs and used to safeguard underwater pipelines
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 39to a “Wall Espen Andersen, a pilot boat driver CClimbing Robot” from Sumitomo Heavy LEGO Pilot Boat for DanPilot, the independent public Main Particulars Industries, Ltd., Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd., and Bricks: 2500 pcs. enterprise owned by the Danish state, MOL Ship Management Co., Ltd. Scale:
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 41Vessels Gripper ing European CTV operator Northern Offshore Services (N-O-S) and U.S.-based investment ? rm OIC. The vessel, based on N-O-S’ 30-meter G-class design, fea- tures Volvo Penta’s IPS propulsion system and is said to be “hybrid-ready”, meaning it was built with space reserved for all the
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 34and the bend rate’s between partners is key to the success of any project, but 13 inches, you’ve got a really, really tight spot and dif? culty in particular something like the eWolf that is this technical getting the cable in.” and ? rst-of-its-kind.” “On the eWolf, there’s high voltage everywhere,”
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 33power feed- A relative lack of space became a challenge when try- ing into the DC grid, and then also all the power that’s ing to install the cables in particular, Rice said. “Those big swung to all the consumers,” Strupp said. power cables can only bend so much because of how thick The use of electrical
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 39needed to fuel ships at scale would have to be built out, with at MAN Energy Solutions. “This is groundbreaking for both likely local concerns particularly with ports in close proximity our company and the maritime industry as a whole. That said, to dense populations. we know we still have a lot
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 14environment.” Gianelloni was also quick to point out the organization’s On top of that, MITAGS has an international assess- simulation department in particular. “It’s our jewel, in my ment program, the Navigation Skills Assessment Program opinion,” she said. “We do exercises that we just don’t see (NSAP)
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 19the back that we call wave channels. They do a number of of operation, you’re in trouble. We’ve seen some big storms somewhat nuanced and complex hydrodynamic things, but this past year, we have some great videos on YouTube from basically they cause the machine to move a lot more in waves. cameras on
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 33WASALINE EQUIPMENT LIST AURORA BOTNIA MAIN PARTICULARS Main engines: 4 × Wärtsilä 8V31DF (4 × 4,400 kW) Ship Type: RoPax Ferry Fuel type: LNG, biogas, battery (Leclanche) Shipbuilder: Rauma Marine Constructions Total installed power: 17,6MW Material: Steel Bow thrusters: Wärtsilä FPP
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 28with great bunkering technology in place plus it doesn’t come with the storage issues security of supply … it’s crazy.” inherent with hydrogen, particularly in large quantities. but [for example] not many people company’s vessels – regardless of sec- “So we started designing our cargo know the cost
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November 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 22performance. est wild-caught ? sheries in the world. The ES80 sounder system This includes: the SN90 multibeam sonar, which pinpoints in particular excels in this respect, with a broad frequency spec- schools of, and individual, ? sh; the ES80 sounder system, ca- trum (from 38 to 200 kHz) allowing
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November 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 11curacy is king for drawing conclusions this can be challeng- to ensure that the right techniques are chosen, and the right ing. Machine learning in particular requires a large amount conclusions drawn. It’s very easy to get into a “Wild West” of “training” data or observations which we often don’t of
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November 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 4needed to power the future of subsea technology. [email protected] Read our interview with Massa starting on page 30. The other story I found of particular interest was my interview with Henry Ruhl and Corporate Staff Amy West of Synchro. Synchro is a program designed to help take subsea technology
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December 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 33dredge is a cargo vessel and it works on a cyclical basis multiple times per day. So the more sand we can carry, the better GALVESTON ISLAND MAIN PARTICULARS Name Galveston Island Type Trailing Suction Hopper Dredge Capacity 6,500-cu.-yd. Shipowner Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD) Shipbuilder Conrad
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December 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 29The Wabtec 16V250MDC, EPA Tier 4, IMO Tier III marine diesel engines NSMV Main Particulars Length 525 ft. (160.05m) Breadth 88.5 ft. (27m) Depth 55.1 ft. (16.8m) Draft, design 21.4 ft. (6.5m) Range 10,000+ miles @ 18 knots Propulsion Diesel Electric Engines 4 x Wabtec Total installed power 16
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December 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 27to identify the design features that will work for a given vessel. Some noise control technolo- gies are only effective if the vessel suffers from a particular symptom. For example, applying a technology that would reduce propeller hub cavitation to a vessel that does not have hub cavitation would not
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December 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 23€241 million (about $255 million) to R&D expenditure, or 4.1% of its net sales, up from €165 million (about $175 million) and 3.2% in 2018. In particular, the company has been working to maximize the ef? - ciency of its portfolio of gas, diesel and dual-fuel engines, while also de- veloping its next
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November 2023 - Marine News page: 57€241 million (about $255 million) to R&D expenditure, or 4.1% of its net sales, up from €165 million (about $175 million) and 3.2% in 2018. In particular, the company has been working to maxi- mize the ef? ciency of its portfolio of gas, diesel and dual- fuel engines, while also developing its next