Archive for the ‘Marine’ Category

Efficient Consumption of Heavy Fuel Oil in Shipping Operations

Posted in Combustion, Marine, Measurement on Tuesday, June 21st, 2011. No comments yet
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The trend for process manufacturers to globalize production over the last few decades has created large distances between production and consumption, and increased the need for shipping to close these distances. The Lloyd’s Register blog shares in a post, Heavy fuel oil: the challenges: With the huge bulge in the orderbook still being delivered into [...]

Certified Mass-Based Marine Bunker Measurement

Posted in Custody Transfer, Marine, Measurement on Thursday, June 2nd, 2011. No comments yet
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I just saw in Neal Ingram’s Micro Motion Community blog the news about marine bunker measurement shared at last week’s 2011 Nor-Shipping Exhibition and Maritime Conference in Norway. This topic is something we highlighted a while back in a post, Accurate Measurement of Bunker Delivery Quantities. Bunker fuel or heavy fuel oil (HFO) is: …also [...]

Accurate Measurement of Bunker Delivery Quantities

Posted in Custody Transfer, Marine, Measurement on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009. No comments yet
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Emerson’s Steve Jones, part of the Micro Motion Coriolis flow and density measurement business, recently wrote an article on bunker metering for Bunkerspot magazine. Entitled, Critical Mass in the Bunker Industry, it describes the importance of accurate measurement of bunker fuel–also known as heavy fuel oil (HFO). For those not familiar with bunker fuel, I [...]

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