Cathelco has won a major order for its Quantum impressed current cathodic protection (ICCP) system, which it launched during 2014.
Cathelco has won a major order for its Quantum impressed current cathodic protection (ICCP) system, which it launched during 2014.
China’s New Times Shipbuilding Co will fit the system to a series of ten 33,000 dwt chemical tankers on order for Jo Tankers of Norway. An arrangement of hull-mounted anodes and reference electrodes will be connected to the thyristor control panel that plays a defining role in the system.
It stores information about the system’s performance, which can be downloaded to a USB stick and e-mailed to Cathelco for analysis, avoiding the need for completing and returning paper log sheets.
On the 33,000 dwt vessels one ICCP system, fitted aft, is sufficient, but at another Chinese yard, Jiangsu New Shipyard, a series of eight 82,000 dwt bulk carriers will each have two systems fitted. They will have two Quantum control panels, operating in a master-and-slave configuration, with the whole system controlled from the aft panel.
That yard is also building four 64,000 dwt bulk carriers for German owner Peter Döhle. These will also be fitted with Cathelco Quantum ICCP systems fore and aft.
This ability for the two systems to be linked together was claimed as a significant advance when the technology was announced last year. “It means that the forward ICCP system can be controlled from the aft panel and that information about the whole system can be viewed in one location. This is much more convenient for the engineer who does not have to walk from one end of the ship to the other,” said Cathelco’s general manager Peter Lindley, who headed the development project. MP
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