Case Marine Expands Facility

Case M&I is expanding its Seattle based facility to increase manufacturing capabilities and inventory.

Case M&I has received the US Commerce Associations 2009 Award for Best of Business in Seattle.

 

A Load Sharing Project Using Woodward Control Systems

CASE M&I has just delivered the first two ProTech TPS systems for installation. The systems are being delivered for beta testing and will be put into service in the coming weeks. The ProTech TPS is a safety PLC with integrated overspeed protection. The ProTech TPS utilizes triple modular redundant, (TMR) architecture providing 2-out-of-3 voting logic to safely and accurately determine unsafe operating conditions and ensure fail-safe turbine trip and alarm functionality. The ProTech TPS also offers Trip Valve Monitoring and Trip, Alarm, and Test Logs to further protect your turbines operation.

Case M&I has qualified for EnviroStars certification. A service of the Local Hazardous Waste Management Program in King County, EnviroStars recognizes businesses by awarding them a 2-to 5-Star rating.

 

Case M&I has received the US Commerce Associations 2009 Award for Best of Business in Seattle. The award was presented in recognition of Case Marine & Industrial’s work in Water Purification. The award goes out to companies that provide the best technology and customer support in an industry or community, and promote a positive image for small businesses through service to their customers and community.

 

Case M&I recently retrofitted a vessel operating a 500 ton/day evaporative water maker with a Case designed 500 ton RO. The Boiler/Atlas water maker configuration consumed between 1890 and 2050 gallons of fuel per day. (The variations were dependent on how well maintained and clean the tubes were.) The Case M&I RO system eliminates the need for the boiler and thus the fuel required to run the boiler.

 

At $3.25 per gallon multiplied by 1890 gallons per day, the fuel savings would be $6142.50 per day.

At the time of installation, fuel prices allowed for a payback on the vessel’s investment in less than one year.

With respect to power consumption, the Atlas evaporative system required 134 Kw to operate at full capacity. The Case M&I RO system will operate at 107 Kw of power consumption. The Case M&I design also incorporates the use of frequency drives which enables the unit to be adjusted for capacity. In other words, the power consumption is dialed up or down depending on demand for water.

Example – The evaporative water maker configuration required 111Kw combined to produce 400 Ton/day.

Atlas water maker and boiler required 65 Kw of electrical power to operate.

The offshore R.O. unit required 46 Kw of electrical power to operate.

The combined operation consumed is a total electrical power requirement of 111 Kw.

Through the use of frequency drives, the Case M&I system can be “turned down” and produce 400 tons of production with only 107 Kw. In addition, there is no expense of burning fuel to operate the boiler. Another advantage to using frequency drives within the Case M&I design, is not only having ability to produce the precise amount of water needed, at the precise time it is needed, the system can go from dead stop to full capacity in less than five minutes.

In addition to the fuel savings and more efficient power consumption, the Case M&I RO system’s foot print was less than half of the old system providing real estate on board ship that can now be utilized for other applications.

Case M&I recent developed an ECU and shutdown panel for 398 & 399 CAT diesel engines being utilized on the North Slope of Alaska. The system replaces the old mechanical shut down device and monitors engine coolant, oil pressure and a variety of other engine parameters for more efficient operating and reliability. Case M&I used Woodward’s new EasyGen control platform and annunciation panel in order to provide an easy to use, skid mount package.