Marine Maintenance Technology International - April 2016

MARINE MAINTENANCE WORLD EXPO 2016 (^) ⠿
MARINE MAINTENANCE TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL | APRIL 2016 ⠿ 49
Speaker
spotlight
Dr Marco Cristoforo Camporeale,
general manager, Health
Management Solutions, Rolls-
Royce Marine
Tuesday, June 21, 10:00am
Tell me what you will be discussing
at this year’s Marine Maintenance
World Expo Conference.
My presentation is titled ‘From
aerospace to marine health
management: trusted to deliver
excellence’. I will explain how
Rolls-Royce can support its marine
customers by transferring the risk
through long-term service
agreements (like power by the
hour) underpinned by condition-
based maintenance similar to what
aerospace customers receive.
Rolls-Royce is piloting this
technology with its program ‘Wire
the Fleet’.
How does the marine sector differ
from the aerospace sector in terms
of its condition-based monitoring
and health management needs?
The marine sector is unique in the
extreme variety of critical shipboard
systems to be monitored at the
same time, for the relatively small
number of running hours.
For example, an anchor handling
winch, compared with a diesel
engine, is not used for the entire
mission and therefore only a limited
amount of data can be collected to
mature predictive diagnostic
algorithms.
Can you give a clear example of
how your technology has helped
improve vessel operation and
maintenance?
During monitoring of engine units
on board an anchor handling
vessel, Rolls-Royce teams
recognized a data pattern that
indicated changes in the way the
engine was operating and a
step-change in performance. We
connected to the ship remotely and
downloaded detailed data from the
monitoring system. It revealed
during maintenance the fuel
injectors were replaced the day the
reduced performance began.
We contacted the ship’s crew, told
them the issue, and gave guidance
on how to use the equipment. A
skilled service engineer was sent to
the vessel and he identified that the
injectors had been incorrectly
calibrated – affecting the engine’s
performance and operating
condition. After precisely re-
calibrating the injectors, the
engine’s balance was restored.
Without a Rolls-Royce equipment
health management system, this
problem would not have been
identified until a fault occurred. The
mistake would have caused higher
fuel consumption, stressing and
eventually damaging the asset. Our
technical experts and engineers
supplemented the crew’s skills. \
New solvent-free coating solution
Chemco International // Stand: M6030
Chemco International has developed
an environmentally friendly, solvent-
free, wet- and rust-tolerant coating
system comprising two unique
products, the Epo-chem RS 500P
primer and Epo-chem RA 500M
top coat.
The company specializes in the
design and manufacture of the most
advanced polymers for leading-edge
anti-corrosion coatings that are
utilized around the world.
Epo-chem RS 500P and Epo-chem
RA 500M are designed to be used
together, to make a single coating
system that can be used for almost all
vessel areas, including: all tank
external arrangements, pipework
(internal/external), decks,
superstructures, void spaces,
cofferdams and engine rooms.
Chemco says the Epo-chem coating
system can be used for any surface
preparation method and that
substantial time and cost savings can
be achieved when water-jetting is
employed. The system also exhibits
adhesion to rusty or poorly prepared
surfaces, wet or dry. Chemco
highlights that the wet- and rust-
tolerant characteristics of the system
allow the coating process to begin
immediately after surface preparation
with no dehumidification.