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Level Sensors and Leak Detectors
News Release from: PSM Instrumentation | Subject: Tank-gauging systems
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 27 April 2001
HMS Nottingham gets fuel oil tank
monitoring
HMS Nottingham, a Type 42 Royal Navy frigate back in service following a one-year refit at Devonport, has the first complete installation of PSM's shipboard monitoring system.
HMS Nottingham, a Type 42 Royal Navy frigate back in service following a one-year refit at Devonport, has the first complete installation of PSM's shipboard monitoring system Furthermore, PSM Instrumentation has also received orders from the Royal Navy for five more of these tank-gauging systems on Type 42s
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 27 Apr 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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For trim stability the ships' fuel tanks are maintained full, achieved by replacing fuel with seawater as it is used.
Several tanks are linked and a seawater header tank exerts a pressure on the whole "chain" ensuring that oil, followed by seawater, is pushed from one tank to the next.
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A PSM sensor is installed in the base of each tank, and the shallow depth and small specific gravity differential demanded an instrument with high sensitivity.
Moreover the arduous installed conditions and shock immunity called for an extremely rugged device.
Access to tanks is not possible in service so reliability, long-term stability and routine maintenance intervals of four years minimum were design briefs.
The transmitter output is fed into a PSM acquisition and display system which processes the information, based on tank tables and the grade of oil in use, to provide a volume display at repeater indicators all over the ship, each connected to a two-wire RS485 data highway.
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