Cavitation Works!
Anglo-Eastern Leads in Digital Transformation with Wärtsilä Fleet
Operations Solution Anglo-Eastern has partnered with the technology group Wärtsilä to digitalise its fleet operations. The technology solution, which will be rolled out to the Hong Kong-based ship manager’s global fleet of more than 600 vessels, supports full voyage planning and execution as well as engine performance and fuel efficiency monitoring.
Cavitation cleaning of subsea installations has been proven in independent testing to work much faster than conventional HP jetting techniques. Using units of the same power input, the CaviBlaster has been shown to clean a test piece in a quarter of the time taken by a conventional HP jetter. To match an HP jetter performance, a CaviBlaster will use a much less powerful power unit, with consequent reduction in footprint.
Diesel and Electrical powered CaviBlaster units are available for both ROV and Diver operations for offshore work. Small, portable machines are available for dock – side operation, with a particularly compact gasoline powered model finding favour in dockyard and marina applications (see photo).
Charles Cleghorn Ltd has supplied electric, diesel and hydraulic powered CaviBlaster units for many applications, including the rapidly developing marine windfarm service sector, and also works in conjunction with subsea tooling specialist J2 Subsea in Aberdeen.
The Wärtsilä Fleet Operations Solution (FOS) integrates individual processes that are otherwise separate from each other to optimise the planning, weather routing, fuel consumption, and speed of a vessel. It also facilitates ship-to-shore reporting and fleet performance management to reduce fuel consumption, taking into consideration charter party compliance, speed management, as well as the hull, propeller and engine condition.
Key benefits of deploying the Wärtsilä FOS include a unique platform that integrates with a ship’s planning station and electronic chart display and information system (ECDIS), immense cloud computing power, machine learning, data analytics, and onboard/onshore mobile applications.
Purpose-Built Vessel Will Increase Response Times over Gill Issues
Fish farmer Scottish Sea Farms (SSF) said it was to take delivery of a purpose-built workboat to increase response times to gill health issues.
Costing £1.9m, the Fair Isle – named after the island between Shetland and Orkney – will service the firm’s more northerly sites, delivering preventative veterinary treatment.
Gill health is thought to be one of the biggest challenges facing salmon producers globally, and as such is recognised by Scotland’s 10-year Farmed Fish Health Framework as a priority area for action.
SSF Head of Fish Welfare Ralph Bickerdike said: “Recent years have seen significant investment in the surveillance of fish health and the farming environment, with water quality monitored on a daily basis and gill health routinely assessed by our farmers to detect any challenges and highlight where pre-emptive action is needed.
“Having a second dedicated workboat takes this ‘prevention over cure’ approach a key step further, enabling us to administer the best veterinary care at the earliest opportunity.”
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www.dockyard-mag.com December 2019
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