Boiler rebuild - Hitachi HZAM-32A
ICE have carried out a full retubing of a Hitachi HZAM-32 A "D-type / Two drum" water tube boiler onboard a DWT 55.000 tanker vessel.
The boiler is of 32.000 kg/h steam capacity at 16 bar g
The vessel is equipped with only one boiler, which suffered from fire damage in the Atlantic ocean carrying a full cargo (68.000 m3) of fuel oil bound for Houston, USA.
Because of this, the vessel was without steam for heating and had to go for nearest port running the main engine on diesel oil. The vessels cargo pumps were steam driven and without steam for heating the cargo and for the pumps, the cargo could not be discharged before the boiler was repaired............ (Read all by clicking in News archive)
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