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INVITATION – Next generation Blending-on-Board @ Danish Maritime Fair 2016

October 5, 2016

Come visit Maersk Fluid Technology at the Copenhagen-based maritime fair

Danish Maritime Fair is approaching and Maersk Fluid Technology will for the first time have a booth exhibiting the latest generation of Blending-on-Board lubrication optimization systems, as well as offer hands-on sessions with our state-of-the-art scrapedown XRF analyzer and a preview of our new online lube-oil consumption monitoring system.

When: October 25-27
Who to meet: The Maersk Fluid Technology technical & commercial team
Free Tickets: Click here

When visiting us, take the chance to:

Learn about innovative 2-stroke engine lubrication solutions
Perform an accurate scrape-down analysis – Bring your own scrape-down sample or borrow one of ours
Try our “augmented reality” blender investigator
Stay for a while – there’s Danish beer on tap !

We are looking forward to seeing you at the Danish Maritime Fair in Copenhagen!

Tanker Shipping & Trade: Blending-on-Board is ok for newer engines from MAN Diesel & Turbo

August 9, 2016

In their June/July 2016 issue, Tanker Shipping & Trade brought a story regarding MAN’s confirmation of “Blending-on-Board” being OK for for MAN Mark 8 and Mark 9 engines, based on MAN statement given at Chevron Marine Lubricant’s seminar September 2015.

Read the full story at Tankershipping.com or download it here.

See our next-generation Blending-on-Board at SMM 2016

July 26, 2016

Maersk Fluid Technology will be present at SMM, on stand number A5.210, with actual examples of the company’s Blending-on-Board (BoB) system and the associated XRF scrapedown oil analyser.

With current industry concerns about cold corrosion, and the need to adjust fuel sulphur levels to meet emissions limits, the importance of using cylinder oil of the correct alkalinity level has never been greater. Experience in some of the world’s largest fleets has proved that BOB is a simple, low-cost, flexible, reliable and environmentally-friendly method of achieving this.

Run at minimum recommended cylinder lubrication regardless of fuel sulphur content.

Sune Lilbaek, Head of Sales at Maersk Fluid Technology, explains:

“The BOB system added to the existing lubrication system and after installation it will no longer be necessary to adjust cylinder oil feed rates is needed regardless of the sulphur content in the fuel oil. When switching from traditional lubrication oil to our future-proof blending system, experience with the current 200 installations has proved that it will be possible to achieve lubrication at or close to the lowest allowed consumption of lubricant as specified by the engine manufacturer. This results in the cylinder lubricant from the BOB system always matching the sulphur content in the fuel. It is no longer necessary to increase lubricant supply to counter corrosive wear or fouling – instead the concentration of BN and other additives are adjusted on-the-fly, creating a fit-for-purpose cylinder oil at same or better quality than a standard fixed-BN cylinder oil. Being able to match lubricant with the fuel in use translates to proven reductions of up to 50% in consumption. Once the system has been set up, on-board engineers will merely need to enter the sulphur content of the fuel in use and the system will automatically blend a cylinder oil matching the fuel sulphur – the process can be fully automated and does not require interaction from the operator. “

Best of all – BOB is easily retrofitted to existing vessels

Utilising the in-use system oil for blending is a clear-cut win for the engine

As the oil used for blending down the concentrate is taken from the in-use system oil, system oil is frequently replenished with new stock. This prevents the oil quality deterioration that otherwise takes place for any system oil. As a result, anti-wear and detergency properties are as for a new oil and on top of this, the system oil viscosity is maintained and waste system oil disposal and oil cleaning energy consumption is reduced by up to 80%.

Experience has shown that by maintaining the original viscosity of the system oil, friction losses are reduced and fuel consumption has proven to be cut by up to 1.5%. Cleaner system oil has, in addition, a positive impact on wear of components and maintenance of separators and filters. Taking into account the reduced fuel and lubricating oil consumption and lower waste oil disposal costs, payback times of less than two years can be expected.

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Maersk Tankers orders 12 Blending-On-Board systems for medium-size MAN Diesel & Wärtsilä 2-stroke engines

July 7, 2016

In the second half of 2015, Maersk Fluid Technology introduced a new version of its cylinder oil ‘Blending-On-Board’ (BOB) system, targeting medium-sized 2-stroke propulsion engines with a cylinder bore between 420 and 680 mm.

Now the first volume order has been placed for retrofit of the SEA-Mate^® B1000 system onto 12 tankers delivered to Maersk Tankers between 2005 and 2008 – ten vessels equipped with Wärtsilä (WinGD) RTA and RT-Flex engines with a bore between 580 and 620 mm and two vessels with medium-bore engines designed by MAN Diesel & Turbo.”

The ordered BOB systems are simple to retrofit onboard existing vessels and will be installed during 2016 without the need to interrupt vessels schedule. With the systems installed the vessels will be able to blend from 30-140 BN cylinder oil, utilizing the in-use system oil as a base-oil. The system is fully approved for the MAN Diesel & Turbo and Wärtsilä (WinGD) engines in question.

Tommy Thomassen, CTO Maersk Tankers commented “With the flexibility of the B1000 Blending-On-Board (BOB) system from Maersk Fluid Technology, we get the ability to match our cylinder oil lubrication to the fuel sulphur. The BOB system is expected to facilitate up to 40% reduction of current lube-oil consumption, cleaner main engine system oil and fuel savings of at least 0.5% for both MAN Diesel & Turbo and Wärtsilä (WinGD) 2-stroke engines. Investing in BOB allows Maersk Tankers to stay flexible and ready for future lubrication challenges”

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ShipInsight: Talking Tech – discussing Blending-on-Board

June 30, 2016

In the latest quarterly edition of ShipInsight Maersk Fluid Technology’s Blending-on-Board was in focus. Our Mr. Sune Lilbaek, Head of Sales, answered various technical and commercial questions related to Blending-on-Board, covering topics as “Why BOB”, “Engine Designer Cooperation”, “System performance”, “What’s next” and more. This Q&A will provide a bit of insight on frequently asked questions from both journalists and customers Read the magazine online. The Talking Tech feature can be found on electronic page 106 to 108.

Marine Propulsion & Auxiliary equipment feature: Blending-on-Board for electronically controlledl 2-stroke engines

May 30, 2016

Marine Propulsion & Auxiliary Engine equipment ran a follow-up feature to their Dec-Jan feature and the European Marine Engineering Conference in April. The article notes that MAN Diesel & Turbo has confirmed that Blending-on-Board lubrication is suitable for its current range of electronically controlled ME engines, if viscosity is right. The feature also stress that the oil used for blending is the in-use system oil and not sludge oil as originally mentioned as an option by the Marine Propulsion magazine.

Read the feature online here or download a PDF of the feature.

Maersk Group & Qatargas signs Technical Cooperation agreement mentioning Blending-On-Board

March 1, 2016

In the technical collaboration agreement between Qatargas and Maersk Group signed in first quarter of 2016, our Blending-on-Board is highlighted as a technology that QatarGas finds to be very exciting and one of the future collaboration areas for reduction of vessel running cost.

On February 23rd, Maersk Group CEO Niels S. Andersen and QatarGasCEO Mr. Khalid Ben Khalifa Al-Thani, signed a Letter of Intent for Technical Collaboration between Qatargas and Maersk. The agreement aims at exploring opportunities related to use of LNG for marine propulsion.

In this connection, Qatargas mentions Maersk Fluid Technology’s Blending-on-Board in connection with innovative technologies of interest as follows:

Maersk Line currently operates more than one in six of the world’s container vessels. Subject to the required infrastructure being made available and the development of cost-efficient LNG propelled vessels, early predictions suggest a larger scale use of this propulsion technology by ship owners in the future. Among their many innovations, Maersk has developed an on-board lubrication oil system to recycle used lubricants resulting in savings while maintaining safe, reliable and optimized engine conditions.

Maersk Fluid Technology have met up with Qatargas several times to discuss implementation of the BOB technology on their fleet, noting that the flexibility of the “fit-for-purpose” lubrication made possible with blending-on-board makes it perfect for blending of cylinder oils matching fuels with very dfferent sulphur content properties. This is not only useful for future dual-fuel engine vessels but also for vessels with conventional 2-stroke diesel engines bunkering fuel with different sulphur content.

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Presenting Blending-on-Board at European Marine Engineering Conference 2016

February 5, 2016

Visitors to the 2016 European Marine Engineering Conference in Amsterdam this year will be able to hear a keynote speech from Maersk Fluid Technology managing director Jens Byrgesen, who will talk about his company’s success with Blending-On-Board lubrication technology.

Maersk’ SEA-Mate Blending-On-Board concept is based on proprietary technology designed to enable the operator to custom blend a fit-for-purpose cylinder lubricant from recycled two-stroke system oil and a cylinder oil concentrate with a base-number up above 300 BN.

The SEA-Mate concept is designed to address the needs of today’s operational challenges, such as slow-steaming, changes between different fuel types with different sulphur content, crankcase cleanliness issues and system oil performance concerns.

As a topic, Blending-On-Board divides opinion within the industry, with many of the leading lube manufacturers advising caution, but with a number of shipowners apparently seeing benefits from employing the technology. Indeed, independent consulting company BWSC has documented that the system facilitates a fuel consumption reduction up to 1.5% and owners find it is possible to reduce lube oil consumption by up to 50%.

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The first Blending-On-Board systems were commissioned back in 2008 and today there are more than 200 systems in active operation.

As an example: Blending-On-Board was installed on Emma Maersk in 2012. Back then, Maersk Line estimated cost savings from reduced lubricant and fuel consumption for Emma Maersk in excess of US$100,000 per year and the total operating savings from the Blending-On-Board technology installed on Maersk Line ships to be in excess of US$17 million per year.
Delegates will have the chance to quiz Mr Byrgesen on the virtues of this technology.

The Marine Lubes session of the European Marine Engineering Conference begins at 15:20 on 13 April at the Mövenpick Hotel, Amsterdam.

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Maersk Post #3 – Innovation for Growth, Big lesson from a small blender.

10. September 2015

Small and otherwise unimpressive to look at, BoB comes with a skill most commercial vessels, regardless of size, are willing to pay for these days, namely, operational performance at a lower cost.
This is also why more than 169 Maersk Line vessels will have BoB on board by the end of 2015, and why a number of other external shipping lines have placed orders.

Blending-on-Board was installed on Emma Maersk in 2012. Since then, Maersk Line estimates cost savings from reduced lubricant and fuel consumption for Emma Maersk in excess of USD 100,000 per year. The total operating savings from the BoBs installed on 169 Maersk Line ships is expected to be in excess of USD 17 million per year, with each vessel saving different amounts depending on the size of the ship, engine type, operating parameters and other factors.

It started purely from a desire to reduce the cost of lubricant for the Maersk fleet. But, what we have today as a result is a whole lot more, including greater knowledge of our engines, vessel maintenance and fuel efficiency”.

So says Niels Henrik Lindegaard, Chairman of Maersk Fluid Technology and Head of Maersk Oil Trading.

BOB Cooperation Agreement with Wartsila

14. Jul 2011

Wartsila Switzerland Ltd and Maersk Fluid Technology, Inc has entered into a Business Cooperation Agreement, in order to develop and sell efficient lubrication management systems on Wartsila diesel engines. Blending on Board and SEA-Mate XRF oil Analyzer, is a crucial part of this cooperation.

Managing Director of Maersk Fluid Technology, Jens Byrgesen, express great excitement of this cooperation and “are confident the joint cooperation will take Blending on Board to the next level and ensure additional BOB installations in the future”.

Strategic Partnership with MAN Diesel PrimeServ

29. Jan 2009

MAN Diesel PrimeServ and Maersk Fluid Technology Agree on Strategic Partnership

23 January 2009. MAN Diesel PrimeServ and Maersk Fluid Technology have agreed to form a strategic partnership, where MAN Diesel PrimeServ will represent Maersk Fluid Technology’s SEA-Mate^® line of products to operators of MAN Diesel equipment in both the marine and stationary power markets and on a global scale.

The philosophy behind the SEA-Mate^® product line is to provide innovative and technologically-advanced products, services and solutions with respect to fuels or lubricants used in marine or stationary power equipment, allowing operators the utmost flexibility, advanced performance and significantly-reduced operating costs. Initially, the focus will be on two-stroke engines and both the optimisation of system and cylinder-lubricant usage as well as improved engine performance. In addition, tools are provided to allow for near real-time oil analysis as an enabler for predictive maintenance of any rotating machinery aboard vessels, capable of communication to home-base as well as utilising neural networking for vessel-by-vessel, fleet-by-fleet, equipment-by-equipment optimisation.

The initial systems provided, namely the SEA-Mate^® Analyzer and SEA-Mate^® Blending on Board (sold collectively, or the analyser separately) developed by Maersk Fluid Technology will enable operators to analyse lubricants and fuels in near real-time for fluid and engine performance and thus allow for the fine-tuning of engine operation. At the same time, the blending of used system oil with a suited and MAN Diesel-approved additive package to provide a flexible composition cylinder oil meeting actual fuel sulphur level requirements, allows for not only significantly reduced cost, optimised cylinder-oil feed rate and supply security, but also reduces environmental impact. In addition, various other fluid solutions and services are under development and expected to be introduced to the market in 2009.

Operators will benefit from the proven and well-known MAN B&W two-stroke engines that are strong prime movers in the marine and power plant markets, the well-respected products and services provided by MAN Diesel PrimeServ and the broad fluid technology and operational experience of Maersk Fluid Technology, who provides outstanding, unique and patented technical solutions with proven benefits.

Otto Winkel, Senior Vice President MAN Diesel PrimeServ, states: “This is a great opportunity for the engine operators who ultimately will be able to blend cylinder oil onboard to a suitable base number and thereby cater for the actual engine condition.”

“The marine and power-generation industries have been faced with increasing challenges regarding lubricants and fuels over the past years. We have found an ideal partner in MAN Diesel PrimeServ to combine PrimeServ’s global reach and expertise with our proprietary solutions, offer those on a global scale, and also explore other areas of interest to our clients,” adds Klaus-Werner Damm, President and CEO of Maersk Fluid Technology, Inc.

“Our cooperation will benefit the entire industry as well as secure prospects for future substantial growth.”

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