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MHI delivers double rainbow
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has completed delivery of two 11,410g car ferries from its Shimonoseki Shipyard to local ferry operator Kyuetsu Ferry in coownership with the Corporation for Advanced Transport and Technology. Named New Rainbow Love and New Rainbow Bell, these newbuildings entered service on July 9 and October 5 ...
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NQEA wins award for 84m hopper dredger
NQEA Australia has been bestowed with accolades for engineering excellence for its work in building an 84m trailing suction hopper dredger. The dredger has earned both NQEA and the Port of Brisbane Corporation, where it has been deployed since October 2000, the Institution of Engineers Australia ? Queensland Division 2001 ...
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Leslie reveals US joint venture for Flightship
Flightship Australia managing director John Leslie tells The Motor Ship the joint venture arrangement with a US shipbuilder is likely to be finalised after Germanischer Lloyd completes the classification process for FS8 in late November. He envisages the US yard will initially produce around 25 of the craft annually, before ...
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Wavemaster eyes Asia for new orders
West Coast based Wavemaster International is turning its focus back towards the Asian region to source new orders and fuel company growth. The yard, owned by Malaysia?s Penang Shipbuilding Company, reports its busiest year in some 15 years, after having endured a downturn in business since the Asian crisis hit ...
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MAN B&W?s TCA set for sales release in March
MAN B&W expects to complete tests of its new TCA turbocharger range by the year end in time for a full sales release in March 2002, according to a company spokesman. A prototype model has been undergoing analysis on a test bed engine since the summer, with it achieving "better ...
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ABB launches small turbocharger range
ABB Turbo Systems has launched a new range of small turbochargers for high flow rates and high pressure ratios. The TPS..-F33 range consists of four different turbocharger sizes and is capable of pressure ratios as high as four-point-seven to one (4.7:1). The range features an aluminium alloy compressor wheel with ...
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KBB to test fourth HPR
KBB is preparing to commence testing of the fourth and final model in its new range of HPR turbochargers. The fourth model ? the HPR5000 ? will be available for engine tests in the second quarter of next year, says the company. The first two models in the series have ...
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Toward 100,000 hour bearing life
ExxonMobil has taken two steps to better address the lubrication needs of turbochargers. It has reformulated its premium synthetic turbocharger lubricant, Mobil SHC 600 Series, and it is advocating the use of a separate lube system. A 1,000 hour TOST test of the new formulation SHC 600, generated 1/10 the ...
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Higher pressure from Napier
Napier Turbochargers is performing validation tests on two high-performance turbochargers capable of a boost pressure ratio of five and a half to one (5.5:1). The product, labelled the 8-series, has been developed for "a customer whose business is mainly marine," according to Napier. "There is a movement towards even higher ...
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Fierce but compatible
Fierce competition between MAN and ABB for their share of the large turbocharger market has not prevented a measure of compatibility, if unintentional, being demonstrated in their products. This is borne out by an example from the Tru-Marine service station in Singapore, of a fire damaged filter/silencer unit on a ...
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First big MET in ?good condition?
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries says the first application of the world?s largest commercially available turbocharger is performing to expectations. "The turbocharger was opened up for inspection after 2,500 hours of service and this confirmed good condition," says Keiichi Shiraishi, team manager of MHI?s turbocharger design department in Nagasaki, Japan. The turbocharger, ...
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Web-based turbo doctor
Turbo Service International has launched a web-based turbocharger repair service. The website, located at www.turbo chargerbreakdown.com, is designed for use by onboard satellite communications systems and consequently features no graphics or unnecessary data. Causes, remedies and solutions to problems are provided for 152 types of ABB, MAN B&W and Mitsubishi ...
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Castrol launches new oil to meet demand
Castrol Marine?s response to the higher demands being placed on turbocharger lubricating oil is the introduction of Aircol SR68. It is a synthetic oil formulated from a polyalphaolefin base. Castrol says it gives enhanced thermal and oxidation stability leading to extended oil life, reduced friction, lower bearing temperatures and extended ...
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Elliott becomes TSI
Elliott Turbomachinery has sold its turbocharger division to Cooper Cameron Corporation. Cooper Cameron has slotted the business into its Cooper Energy Services division alongside its existing turbocharger interests. The combined entity now operates as Turbine Specialties, Inc (TSI). Richard Yonker has carried over his former role as manager of operations ...
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Just hot air?
There can be no doubt that there have been considerable problems with turbochargers, particularly compressor wheels. Christian Lützen from AP M?ller and Curt Christensen from the FORCE Institute highlighted a number of these problems at this year?s CIMAC Congress in their paper Turbocharger Failures, a Law of Nature or Neglect. ...
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Odfjell engineers express confidence in ME engine
Norwegian shipowner Odfjell is optimistic that the world?s first electronically controlled two-stroke diesel engine, installed onboard its 37,545 dwt chemical tanker Bow Cecil, is potentially an attractive and practical proposition. The ship?s crew, and in particular the engineers, have so far expressed their complete confidence in the mechanical electric (ME) ...
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Crewcall keeps crewmembers in touch
Those who go to sea, whether for work or holiday, have always suffered from poor and slow communications facilities when trying to maintain contact with friends and relations ashore. This situation is about to undergo a dramatic change, says UK-based AND Group, with the introduction of ANDcrewcall, a state of ...
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Dalian trio ready to run
Faced with the need to modernise its roro fleet, Stena RoRo decided to base the design of its new vessels on the 1998-built Sea Centurion. This is the only completed example of the original 4-Runner type, delivered from the now defunct Italian shipyard Societa Esercizio Cantieri. The resulting design is ...
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Patchy workloads for repair businesses
East coast ship repairer Forgacs is close to confirming agency arrangements throughout Asia to position itself as a competitive alternative to yards in Singapore and Hong Kong. Forgacs joint managing director Peter Burgess said Asian based ship managers had shown a willingness to dock at an Australian facility and a ...
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Researchers in motion link with China
Western Australian based researchers are collaborating with the Marine Design & Research Institute of China (MARIC) to examine ship motion behaviour in volatile weather conditions. Curtin University?s Centre for Marine Science and Technology is employing computer modelling to develop more advanced theories to predict heave, pitch and roll motions in ...
