Danish pump producer Svanehøj has launched its newly developed environmentally pleasant Flow Control system, which automates the management of electrical cargo pumps on tankers.
The launch of the newly developed software-based control system follows a profitable test in collaboration with the Swedish transport company Furetank on the P&C tanker Fure Ven. The 18,000 DWT vessel was in-built 2019 as one of Furetank’s V-Series, a new generation of climate-smart P&C tankers.
Svanehøj’s system makes it quicker, simpler, and more environment friendly to operate electric cargo pumps. It ensures an optimum changeover between tanks and pumps in parallel, reducing the time wanted for cargo discharge by as a lot as 20% because the system will mechanically operate at the optimal obligation point. เกจวัดแรงดัน250bar permits the operator to take full control of the pumps, simplifying the whole cargo discharge operation with out installing any extra hardware.
Fure Ven is among the first vessels at Furetank to have electric cargo pumps put in. The company has recorded a 25% reduction in energy and gas consumption in relation to cargo discharge operations compared to vessels in the fleet that have hydraulic pumps.
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