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FOBAS ONBOARD
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PROVIDING ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING SOLUTIONS
Good fuel management
plays an essential part in
the safe, efficient and
environmentally sound
operation of ships. Poor-
quality fuel can cause
significant engine damage FOBAS Onboard will enable
fuel and lubricant quality to
and make it harder to be analysed onboard ship,
meet environmental allowing you to get results
in seconds.
standards.
What is FOBAS Onboard? the quality of fuel which is
FOBAS Onboard is an online loaded, stored and in use
Our innovative new
and interactive system, which onboard and helping to reduce
FOBAS Onboard service is will analyse the quality of your the risk of debunkering.
being developed to fuel and lubricants onboard
ship, reducing the need to send Analysis of potentially
enable fuel and lubricant
samples onshore. damaging materials and
quality to be analysed abrasives will help to ensure
onboard, allowing you to Results when you need them that the engine is not fed
The system will work by with low-quality fuel, helping
get results in seconds and interpreting and analysing it to run more efficiently, and
respond to problems as onboard fuel sampling data. reducing the risk of wear and
Operating in near real time, it tear and engine failure.
they happen.
will give you results when you
need them and the option to Meeting environmental
take immediate action when standards
problems occur. Good fuel management means
that care for the environment
Designed to give you optimum should not be compromised.
control, the system will allow With increasing demand from
analysis results to be emailed the International Maritime
from ship to shore, either Organization (IMO) and other
automatically or as required, so maritime authorities to reduce
that fleet, voyage and other pollution and fuel sulphur Design
reports can be compiled. content, FOBAS Onboard will
allow you to demonstrate your Build
The service also provides ship’s fuel quality immediately
24-hour consultancy support, and will assist in meeting
Operate
so that you can obtain advice standards.
and guidance from skilled
shore-based specialists, around Building on our expertise
the clock. FOBAS Onboard builds on
the expertise of our well-
Reducing risk established laboratory-based
The system will monitor from fuel oil bunker analysis and
the point of delivery, through advisory service (FOBAS), and
purification, to the point of effectively transfers many of
consumption, providing you its capabilities from the shore
with ongoing assurances about to the ship.
M A R I N E S E RV I C E S
Additional system benefits to any lubricated system
FOBAS Onboard will include onboard, such as deck
supplementary sample packs machinery, sterntubes and
and bottles for extended gearboxes. In the future, the
onshore analysis, and also offers service will also feature web
onboard analysis of lubricants. access to a global server,
SUMMARY OF BENEFITS
This will allow for more allowing results of fuel
frequent testing of main and analysis to be instantly
• Provides onboard and
auxiliary engine oils and is uploaded and reported to
online fuel and lubricant
flexible enough to be extended onshore management. analysis, for optimum
control.
LINKING WITH INDUSTRY • Helps to significantly
FOBAS Onboard is part of a joint System capability reduce risk of engine
damage and frequency of
development programme with Initially, LOAS will test and
debunkering.
Danish company NanoNord A/S calculate the following
and its groundbreaking fuel parameters: • Supports crews with 24-
testing system, Lab-on-a-Ship hour consultancy.
(LOAS). • viscosity
• Can improve environmental
• density performance.
LOAS is an onboard hardware
and software platform which • gas content • Optimises cyclinder lube oil
tests and samples fuel using a consumption, helping
• water
variety of techniques, including reduce harmful particulate
NanoNord’s Lab-on-a-Ship acoustic, distillation and x-ray • sulphur matter in exhaust emissions.
system will sample and test methods. This will provide data • vanadium • Confirms efficiency of
fuel continuously, to supply
for analysis through the FOBAS separator plant.
data for analysis through • silicon
Onboard service.
the FOBAS Onboard service. • Includes sample packs and
• aluminium
bottles.
The system tests fuel
• net specific energy
continuously, at multiple • Reduces workload and
points between bunkering and • CCAI. gives peace of mind.
consumption. It is designed to • Online system eliminates
be low-maintenance, and will In addition, it will provide:
sampling errors.
automatically alert the crew
when there is a fuel quality issue • lube oil monitoring
which needs attention. • engine energy monitoring.
F O R F U RT H E R
System approval Further system upgrades are
I N F O R M AT I O N
Sea trials of the LOAS system planned, to add new functions
please contact our
have been ongoing since and features. These will include Environmental Services
October 2006. The system is also indepth gas analysis, emissions department in London,
undergoing Lloyd’s Register type monitoring and intelligent
approval, as well as accreditation technology interfaces to T +44 (0)20 7423 2470
of the test equipment to the maximise fuel efficiency and F +44 (0)20 7423 1750
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