Surveyor's day Gard/Norwegian Hull Club

2017

Surveyor's
MAN Dieselday Gard/Norwegian
& TurboHull Club
Bergen
October 2017
Peter M. Christensen
Superintendent Engineer
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Cat-fines: New and used

New catalytic particles Used catalytic fines: Catfines

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Cat-fines: New and used - zoom

New catalytic particles Used catalytic fines: Catfines

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Cat-fines - Used

Used catalytic
fines: Catfines

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Cat-fines in the 50µm automatic filter

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Cat-fines: Small but tough

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Cat-fines: Pressed into a piston ring running surface

L/74251-5.0/0402 (2160/KEA)

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Cat-fines: Pressed into a liner running surface

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Cat-fines: Pressed into a piston ring running surface

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Cat-fines: Pressed into a piston ring running surface

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Embedded cat-fines

Replica technique:
The density of cat-fines was found
extremely high, with up to 3,000 / cm2.
Acceptable level is below 200 / cm2 !
The sizes vary from 5µm to 15 µm with a
smaller number of ”big” cat-fines in a
range of 20 – 25 µm.
This is a result of in-efficiently
working centrifuges.

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Piston ring wear

Cat fines in fuel:

Severe wear of liners

Severe wear of rings

Wear out of CL-grooves

Scuffing

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Overflow pipe

REMARK:
Overflow pipe should
always have suction from
the bottom

When sailing outside ECA areas cat fines will settle in the service tank.
To prevent wear the service tank volume must be cleaned before use
from the tank.
To clean the tank in service, a surplus of apx. 10 % should be allowed to
recurculate back to the settling tank, at all times
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LSHFO and HFO

A fuel system on a new vessel

prepared for operation in
todays ECA areas should have

• Two Seatling tanks (LSHFO &

HFO)
• Two Service tank
• Possibility of splitting the
system to insure cleaning of
the fuel in the ECA fuel service
tank.

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Reduction from 80-60 ppm

The new ISO 8217:2010 fuel spec.

HFO Cat fines. have

been reduced from
80 ppm to 60 ppm

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SL2005-452

SL05-452

Separator effectiveness ~ 80 %

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A fuel problem is a likely root cause

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Separating temperature

98°C
95°C
Separator Temperature !

Make sure the set-point is set

to 98°C
The temperature have a huge
impact on the effectiveness of
the separator

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703 hours of operation and high cat-fines concentration

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Replica service – onboard

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Replica service – The guide and the paperwork

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Replica service – Copenhagen PrimeServ

 Normal amount of cat-fines is estimated to

100 – 200 / cm². Here it was found from
1500 – 2500 /cm².

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Removal of cat-fines from the engine suffering

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Removal of cat-fines from the liner - Wavecutting

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Online scrape down analysis

Iron content in scrape down measured with

online equipment type Kittiwake.

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Online scrape down analysis

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Liner wear is accelerated

Liner 0.8
wear rate in mm / 1000 hrs

0.7
2
 # 1.
3
0.6  # 5 New.
5
 267 hrs.
6
0.5
8
9
0.4
10
11
0.3 12
5 new
0.2 Ref. Low
Ref.high

0.1 1

0
0 5000 10000 15000 20000 25000 30000 35000 40000

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Fuel change over from HFO to HFOLS

 Change over point

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Surveyor's day Gard/Norwegian Hull Club

2017

Thank you very much for your attention

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