HBM solutions for the marine industry
For millennia, shipping is a major element of world trade. The need for greater efficiency, more stringent emissions Directive and the new marine power systems is a new challenge to the international shipping and shipbuilding.
Company HBM offers You optimal solutions that will help Your ships, ship engines and other components to meet the demands of the future already at the stages of design and production.
Main applications:
Solutions software from HBM nCode will help You to discover the main factors affecting the durability of structures. Tested for fatigue and durability software from HBM nCode will enable You to:
You want to put projectname analysis and load testing of large structures such as ships? Data acquisition system MGCplus in combination with the software catman®Enterprise is the optimal solution for measuring tasks with a large number of channels.
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From time to time ships is subject to enormous mechanical stress. Therefore, research and development work on ship models are carried out using special test equipment, providing a better understanding of physical processes and optimization of the design of the ships.
For leading research institutes is very important for the effective collection of measurement data. Therefore, MARINTEK, the Norwegian Institute of marine research, trust in the solution of these problems the data acquisition systems from HBM.
Equipment for tests and measurements from HBM allows the load testing and monitoring of the hulls of the vessel ‒ on Board test stand or model. Use the complete measuring chain from a single supplier: strain gages, sensors, data acquisition systems and professional software.
High-performance dynamometers are an integral part of test systems marine engines. Often they are still equipped with levers and force sensors, which leads to significant measurement errors.
Modern solution offered by HBM: installation of torque sensors force directly on the output shaft of the dynamometer, which is by far the most accurate method.
The latest international rules, such as MARPOL annex VI, require significant reductions in emissions.
The alternative is to use gas engines instead of traditional diesel. Fuel combustion in gas engines is very clear, and this exhaust gas purification is not required. However, this engine requires control using high-precision signal load.
The installation of torque sensors directly on Board of the ship, working on gas engines with a direct drive (or dual-fuel engines), allows to automatically optimize the performance of gas engine and also provide protection from detonation, outages and overloads. Moreover, the technology data of torque sensors is now supported by the international Maritime community.
A special version of high-performance torque sensor from HBM T10FH now available with certificate ATEX.
The torque sensor power T10FH with ATEX approval for monitoring of gas engines
Some standard test benches for marine engines continued to operate with levers and force transducers, which does not meet modern technical requirements in terms of measurement error.
Torque sensors T10FH and T40FM from HBM are perfectly suited for use in system testing marine engines. Through the use of these sensors, the measurement uncertainty can be less than 1%, which meets the requirements of the complete test system.
Torque sensors from HBM testing of marine engines: