Digital viscosity transmitter for engine company

Caterpillar Motoren has approved Solartron Mobrey's ViscoMaster in-line digital viscosity transmitter for heater control and performance monitoring of its heavy fuel oil engines.

Caterpillar Motoren has approved Solartron Mobrey's ViscoMaster in-line digital viscosity transmitter for heater control and performance monitoring of its heavy fuel oil engines.

Following extensive trials of the new transmitter, Caterpillar has placed an order for seven units.

ViscoMaster is the first in-line transmitter to offer real-time in-line measurement of dynamic viscosity, kinematic viscosity, density and API base density, in one simple, reliable device.

Caterpillar evaluated the instrument in exhaustive 16,000 hour trials, at Enerviz in Portugal before selecting the Solartron Mobrey technology as the instrument of choice for all its heavy fuel engines.

All aspects of ViscoMaster performance were evaluated in the trials, including reliability, accuracy, response time and ability to operate through emergency engine shutdowns.

ViscoMaster met all the performance criteria.

ViscoMaster will be used for direct control of the heaters in the Caterpillar CM32/CM43 engines, and for monitoring of ignition index, base density and temperature.

Data is communicated to the engine management computer via a ModBus link and used for Specific Energy calculations (BS MA 100: 1996) and performance review.

This data cannot be measured directly in real-time by any other instrument available.

The first seven ViscoMaster will be used on a Caterpillar CM32/CM43 engine for power station in Faroer, in the Faroe Islands, Turkey and Guatemala.

Further orders for engines for power and marine applications are expected to follow.

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