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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 37miscible barrier ? uid heavier than seawater (sg=1.026) and lighter than the battery electrolyte (sg=1.265). The original cell vent cap was screwed into the top of the riser pipe to vent the gases associated with charging. Wires were soldered to the lead (Pb) posts. The lead-acid battery was additionall
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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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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 38Tech Files Latest Products, Systems and Ship Designs Zero-Emission Mooring Service of a Tanker Consulmar achieved a milestone by executing what it calls ing boat Castalia, which operates on full electric propulsion. the world's ? rst zero-emissions mooring service for a tanker. Equipped with two 150 kW
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 18MARKETS & gas activity returns, we anticipate that supply of the vessels The Question of Emissions to offshore wind projects will reduce, driving demand for ad- Given that SOVs and CSOVs operate in a segment target- ditional CSOVs. ing reduced emissions, and many operate in the North Eu- Outside of China
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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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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 52TECH FEATURE BATTERY SAFETY Images courtesy Engineered Fluids Inc. This experiment has since been replicated with other batteries and cell con? gurations, and demonstrates the inherent ? re safety of SLIC Technology. jacent cells were not affected, and continued to operate nor- Failures) of electronic
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 50TECH FEATURE BATTERY SAFETY BATTERY THERMAL MANAGEMENT IN SUBMARINE APPLICATIONS Dr. David Sundin, Chief Scientist, Engineered Fluids, Inc. evelopments in battery technology have yielded into the hull of the vessel, or heat can be transferred directly compact energy storage systems that output higher
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 49“As a WHOI scientist myself 20 years ago, I was ‘customer number one’ and applied early versions of the NBOSI sensor technology to my ? eets of Webb Research, now Teledyne Slocum, gliders, L3Harris (OceanServer) Iver2 vehicles, and Liquid Robotics Wave Gliders.” Dave Frantantoni, CEO calibration.
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 48TECH FEATURE NBOSI SMALL CTD MAKER PACKS A POWERFUL PUNCH NBOSI Neil Brown Ocean Sensors Inc. (NBOSI) has a long history supplying research-quality Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) sensors in a compact, cost-effective and easy-to- integrate package for a range of subsea vehicles, including the
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 40In the Shipyard Latest Deliveries, Contracts and Designs Vard Inks $450M to Build Cable Layers ARD won a $252m contract for the design and con- struction of a third cable laying vessel for Italy’s Prysmian Group: Monna Lisa is still under construc- V tion; Leonardo da Vinci was delivered in 2021. The new
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 32CRUISE FEATURE uilt by Rauma Marine Constructions, in Rauma, control system and bow thruster motors. Finland, and launched in 2021, the 150-meter-long In addition to the engines, Wärtsilä also supplied its LNG- Aurora Botnia boasts a long list of onboard equip- Pac technology for LNG storage, supply
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 19COATINGS Figure 1. The M/V Mark W. Barker is speci? cally designed to navigate the occasionally narrow rivers and con? ned ports scattered across the Great Lakes region. All images courtesy of The Interlake Steamship Company Figure 2. Distinguished by its Figure 3. The Interlake Steamship square-shaped
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November 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 62MARKET IN FOCUS: OFFSHORE WIND CTV Technical Trends lutions for active vessels, but the Volvo Penta quad IPS system Still a Bright Future has gained much favor, featuring in over 50% of new builds. Offshore wind projects, whether in the U.S. or globally, are The SOV segment is de? ned by those vessels
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September 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 63Sub bs se ea a a a a7 7 7 7 7 tem comprising sealed hollow tubes. When heat is applied to one end of the heat pipe, the highly volatile liquid in the wick evaporates and the gas ? lls the heat pipe hollow center. This diffuses throughout its length where the external portion of the heat sink pipe or
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September 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 44MTR 100 Source: Verlume Verlume’s in-? eld resident AUV charging and communication station has been deployed as part of the Renewables for Subsea Power project in Scotland. Sensor and instrument supplier RBR aims for low power there is no energy source available for charging, applications consumption
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September 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 42MTR Subsea Bat eries 100 Source: Electrochem Source: RBR Global Electrochem Solutions produces lithium-oxyhalide batteries, a type of lithium primary battery that use a lithium metal anode and a liquid cathode that doubles as the electrolyte. RBR has deployed its RBRfermata battery canister and its
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October 2023 - Marine News page: 24Feature Alternative Fuels However, the AMR notes there are no commitments now Fire Protection Association dealing with safeguards for the from any vessel owners or gas companies for H2 offtake. “generation, installation, storage, piping, use, and han- In summarizing work so far, the AMR states that
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August 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 44CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE Did you know? Northern Lights, while the ? rst project of the kind in Norway, is not the ? rst offshore carbon storage project in the country. Namely, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, since 1996, CO2 has been removed from the Sleipner Vest gas in the North Sea
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August 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 38INTERVIEW: DON MACPHERSON "You have companies that are already well entrenched in a culture of sustainability, with an interest in creating quiet s s s s ships. And so now you're e e e e e e going to ask them to g get even quieter, which h i is [unfair &] much more d d d d dif? cult. It's really
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August 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 32LPG RETROFITS tial for being a solution to handle the volatile organic com- PERFORMANCE pound (VOC) issue in shuttle tankers and other crude oil car- The investment cost for the retro? ts was around $8–9 mil- riers. This is because the engine features innovative options lion per ship, and 2022 was the ?
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August 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 31LPG RETROFITS BW LPG has demonstrated the value of dual-fuel LPG operations beyond the company’s initial aim of meeting IMO 2020 Sulphur Cap regulations. By Wendy Laursen n October 2020, the LPG carrier BW Gemini became at MAN PrimeServ, said that by leveraging LPG as a marine the ? rst very
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July 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 11Proven Performance derlying considerations raised - it is important, however, to accurately acknowledge the history of these events. ...one million MTS is a professional society that convenes experts from nautical hours government, academia, and industry on topics of interest to the community and
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May 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 29southern African marine researchers. units for use by those in academia, gov- data analysis tools and contributes to the Cullen utilizes both acoustic and satel- ernment, non-pro? ts and industry. development of global data standards, lite telemetry to increase understanding of The organization is also