Danish pump producer Svanehøj has launched its newly developed environmentally friendly Flow Control system, which automates the management of electric cargo pumps on tankers.
ไดอะแฟรม ซีล of the newly developed software-based control system follows a successful test in collaboration with the Swedish shipping firm Furetank on the P&C tanker Fure Ven. The 18,000 DWT vessel was inbuilt 2019 as certainly one of Furetank’s V-Series, a new era of climate-smart P&C tankers.
Svanehøj’s system makes it quicker, simpler, and extra environment friendly to function electrical cargo pumps. It ensures an optimal changeover between tanks and pumps in parallel, reducing the time needed for cargo discharge by as much as 20% as a outcome of the system will mechanically operate at the optimal obligation level. It allows the operator to take full management of the pumps, simplifying the complete cargo discharge operation without putting in any extra hardware.
Fure Ven is among the first vessels at Furetank to have electric cargo pumps installed. The firm has recorded a 25% discount in power and fuel consumption in relation to cargo discharge operations in comparability with vessels in the fleet that have hydraulic pumps.
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