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Barber Ship Management
Oslo, 15.05.01
To:
ICElube Scandinavia
My experience with ICE is only one
engine Kawasaki Man 52/55 12 cyl. I added ICE after a complete overhaul off
main engine in January 2001
Before we added ICE the engine was
running good, with only 4 hours off hire last year
So then, why spend all this money for
ICE.
I heard from sister Vessel Sea Pride
and had read a report from Navigare that this is a well known product that
will reduce friction in engine, and with less friction,
better performance, less fuel and oil consumption.
My experience after
only four month running is.
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Less oil consumption
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Less fuel consumption
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Sound off engine when
is running is different, the hard knocking is gone,
lot is due to reduced of friction in engine.
Lube oil purifier is running longer
intervals without cleaning, also oil auto filter is
back flushing only once an hour, before we had more than 100
times a day.
Pressure in crankcase is dropped due to
better sealing between cylinder liner and piston rings.
Overhauling of exhaust valves, inlet
valves, and fuel injectors; we have longer periods
without overhauling.
Exhaust
temperature went down from a average 450 to 380C this is
with seawater temp 20C and air temp. on 25C. in extreme hot
areas with sea water up to 32C temp raise up to
a average of 400C.
When we did the main engine overhaul
in Singapore September 1999 average in oil consumption until next overhaul
in January 2001 was 397 liter a day
My average lube oil consumption to day
4 months amounts is only 116 liter a day. If this continue I will save a lot
of money on lube oil budget.
Fuel Oil consumption has gone down
with 0,5 ton a day and we have better combustion, cleaner exhaust gases.
I can recommend ICE especially on
medium Speed engine.
Today I am not the only one in Barber
Ship Management using ICE. We will also do test on another systems,
especially on a big hydraulic systems and on auxiliary engines.
Best regards
Superintendent
Barber Ship
Management
M/V Takayama
02 march 2001
To:
BSM Oslo
Subject: Main Engine: Kawasaki/Man 52/55A 12.000 HP
Dear Sirs:
The gas leak from both turbo chargers exhaust pipe had been reduced
after further bolts retightening. In Lyttelton B-bank side
tightening was repeated after observing minute gas leaks which
again started to discolor already painted surface. Now there is
still very small gas leak coming out from exhaust pipe
protective shield at B-bank. It must be coming from other place
which we shall locate and again retightening next port.
Lube oil consumption is recorded and as you may see in attached monthly
record sheet the engine is presently consuming amazingly less
oil, We assumed the sealing
effect between piston rings and new honed liners may have
contributed much to prevent oil from reaching into the burning
chamber.
But as we wonder to look back on previous repairs, honing of liners has
become part of every major overhaul of this engine before, And
with those repairs there has been no history of remarkable
change of consumption.
In my opinion another contributory factor to bring less oil
consumption this time might be the result of the introduction of
ICE catalyst in the system oil.
As we noticed our system oil now is much cleaner as revealed by
less frequency of lube oil filter back flushing. Before we have
more than a hundred back flushing being automatically initiated
per day as registered in our meters. Now we got only 24 times.
This means system oil is clean due to good sealing effect of
piston rings and cylinder liner.
Please find also attached Main Engine Performance taken 01 March
2001.
Best Regards,
Master/Cheng
E-mail from Chiefs after ICE
Metal Treatment of their Engines onboard.
Subject: ICElube
Author: FEDERAL VIBEKE (WESNAV) Date: 14/09/99 18:59
Enclosed herewith 2 files; FE3AE001.MOT before ICE and
FE3AE002.MOT ICE after 25L added.
Measurements are taken on No.3 A/E After 2 results are compared,
FE3AE002.MOT file result found decreased Exh. temp.,
increase of power, Pmax, Pcomp, and Pi. L.O. consump. will
be low.
Therefore, we observed this ICE additive found to be very
effective.
Regards, Master / Cheng
Subject: ICE
Author: GC PARANA
Date: 27/09/99 15:43
The following are the result of Generator No.2 before and after
adding ICE.
KW = 500 BEFORE AFTER
Exh Tempr.deg C Fuel Rack posn. Exh Tempr degC Fuel Rack pos.
430
17
390
14
435
20
410
18
385
18
365
15
450
20
410
18
385
20
360
18
365
19
340
16
345
20
320
19
350
20
320
18
Avr.: 393,1
19,3
364,4
17
Improvement after ICE Treatment:
7,3%
12%
We will be observing the lube oil consumption. We will get the
result of this consumption at about seven days.
Rrgds
FROM: M.V.HEDDA SUBJECT: ICE DATE :
27-08-99
WE SEND YOU 3 FILES OF HLV DIAGRAMS, HA34 AE3.
MOT IS THE PERFORMANCE OF AE 3 AT LOAD 340KW
BEFORE FILLING ICE AND WITH SUMP OIL UNCHANGED,
HA35AE3.MOT IS THE PERFORMANCE OF AE3 AFTER CHANGING SUMP OIL AND FILLING ICE
AT SAME LOAD.
HA31AE1.MOT IS THE SECOND DIAGRAM FOR AE1 SINCE ICE HAS BEEN FILLED.
OUR SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT WITH AE1 WAS THE REDUCTION IN LUBE OIL
CONSUMPTION.
NORMALLY WE HAVE TO FILL 20 LTRS./DAY BEFORE ICE WAS FED,
NOW FOR 2 DAYS SUMP OIL IS NOT REDUCING AND CONSUMPTION IS NIL.
REGARDS. MASTER/CH.ENGR.
Subject:
File 950-AUX.ENG./ICE
Author: GC PARANA (WESNAV) {s=GC Date: 06/10/99 20:09
Good news about lube oil consumption. After running for seven days, lube
oil consumption is 25 ltrs.
Before adding ICE, our consumption is 25 ltrs in 2 days.
We will be ordering more ICE for the other Aux. engines.
Rgds
Master/CH.Eng
Date: 31/08/99 Sender HEDDA (WESNAV)
ssHEEDDA:oUISWSESTNAV;o=REMOTE;p=MARINET400;
To: Wesnav Office Priority:
Subject: File 710 - ICE Ref no. 840/99 31/08
The ICE treated Engines ( AE1 & AE3 ) have found reduction in lube oil
consumption by 50% since the ICE has filled on 27-08-99, t
he total consumption for each Aux. Engine is 50 ltrs for 5 days (10 ltrs/day).
Before treated with ICE the lube oil consumption of each Aux. Engine is
20 ltrs/day.
Regards,
Master/Ch. Engr.
12/Ø3/2ØØ2 13:24 HAV SHIP MANAGEMENT
NORWAY - 32877644NEI324 OØ1 QMI Treatment
To : Hav Slip Management
From : my ATLANTICA HAV Baltic Sea, 3.12.2002
REPORT
ME Before treatment (max). C After treatment (max). C
Wind Force 4-5, Sea 3-4 Wind Force 6-7, Sea S
Direction against Direction against
30° from Starboard 10° from Starboard
Revolutions 724 M Revolutions 720 RPM
Before treatment After Treatment
Cyl 1 410
380
Cyl 2 410
410 !!!!!!
Cyl 3 400
380
Cyl 4 410
380
Cyl s 420
400
Cyl 6 410
380
Cyl 7 420
380
Cyl 8 420
400
Turbocharger Pressure (bar):
1.0
1.1
Temp in (C):
420
400
Temp out(C):
410
380
BRGDS
Master mv ATLANTICA HAV
V.Evsey
Engineer
Anatoliy OSIVIlNIN
From ; Sea Pride
To ; V. Ships Norway As
Attn :
Mr. Sverre Barmen (Superintendent)
Subject: ICE Oil Additive
Date : 23.12.2000
I
remembered that ICE metal treatment ( oil additive) and ICE air
cooler treatment had been introduced to this vessel during last
dry docking in April 1999, in China when I had just signed on
for my first contract to this vessel.
First of all we had sprayed ICE air cooler treatment to air side
tubes and fins of both main engine air coolers just before
refitting those to the engine after cleaning by dockyard hands
at their workshop.
Then such engine parts as pistons, piston rings, cylinder
liners, fuel pump plungers and guides etc. had been smeared with
ICE before reassembling during overhaul and moreover, ICE oil
additive had been filled into main engine system oil at
recommended ratio.
The result is amazing. The charge air pressure drop across both
air coolers could be maintained within limit at all time. There
was no turbocharger surging and engine performance had always
been satisfactory throughout my first contract, throughout the
time of previous C/E who had taken over me and throughout my
second contract too - at any engine r.p.m up to 137.7.
Lube oil consumption and fuel oil consumption had dropped substantially
due to anti-friction property of ICE and improved sealing
between pistons and piston rings, between piston rings and
cylinder liners and also between fuel pump plungers and guides
etc. due to ICE layer in-between.
When we had pulled out WE pistons for overhauling in October
2000, i.e., after running 10,657 hours - all pistons, piston
rings and cylinder liners, cyl, covers etc. found to be
surprisingly clean and shining with only very slight carbon
deposits and minimum wear down. In fact with this condition, I
was confident that we could have run this engine satisfactorily
for many more thousands of hours without overhauling yet.
For your information, according to reports and records, until
last docking this engine was forced to be run at lower r.p.m.
ranges i.e., most of the time soon after overhauling due to
turbochargers surging problem. Currently we are running WE at
128 - 134 rpm. satisfactorily without any problem.
We had also filled ICE into aux. engines oil sumps after last
docking. After that we had noticed that, fuel and L.O.
consumption of aux. engines had dropped abt. 22% according to
records.
During recent overhauls of No.2 and no.3 aux. engines ( no.2
after 13,192 and no.3 after 8,627 service hours after
last O/H ) for CMS, all pistons, piston rings, cyl. liners and
cyl. covers found to be very clean with minimum wear rate.
Condition of bearings, crank pins and journals also found
satisfactory.
Note: our aux. engines has no air coolers fitted so that there's
no need to apply ICE.
Due to above-mentioned distinctive advantages, I would like to
advise that ICE air cooler treatment should be applied to air
coolers of our fleet vessels' main engine and aux. engines after
every cleaning of air side- and ICE oil additive be filled into
system oils at manufacturer's recommended ratio and engine parts
should be smeared with ICE before reassembling during overhauls,
in order to improve the engine performance, prolong the service
life and reduce fuel and lube oil consumptions.
Best regards
Master + C/E
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