Flowhire, has recently assisted the engineers on board one of the worlds largest residential ship to monitor their cooling water consumption and help streamline their heat transfer processes to maximise efficiency. Launched in 2002, the Ship is continuously maintained to the highest standards of performance, safety and style – representing the pinnacle of bespoke comfort, design and remarkable amenities.
The Problem
Whilst sailing the Far East, where sea temperatures were often in excess of 30 degrees C, engineers aboard the yacht found that the high sea temperatures were causing problems for cooling the ship’s engine water. They knew if they could determine the flow rates of the existing cooling water system they could look at increasing the size of the plate cooler/heat exchanger or, alternatively, reduce the flow rate of the engine water to enable them to get better heat transfer across the existing plate cooler/heat exchanger.
The Solution
Flowhire’s metering engineer boarded the ship at Bristol, equipped with Flexim’s F601 Ultrasonic Clamp-On flow meter to monitor, identify and report flow rates at a number of points along the pipework over a period of seven days. Various points along the pipework from all four engines were selected and flow tests which produced a 2-minute snapshot of data were carried out at different engine speeds. Once the tests had been carried out, data was downloaded and presented to the engineers before they determined the next location for testing.
Advantages of the F608 Ultrasonic Flow Meter
Battery Life – 14 Hours of Remote Measurement Time Safe, Accurate and Reliable Compact and Lightweight ATEX, IECEx and FM certification.
Results
The Flexim F601 datalogging function integrated with the Fluxus software allowed engineers to access their data when required. Once collated, the information gave them more visibility and clarification to their existing processes allowing them to make accurate improvements and modifications to their heat exchange system, while still maximising optimum engine efficiency of the ship.
