Success for oil spill detection radar
The Oil Spill Detection Radar has enabled Consilium to offer an integrated oil spill response and management bridge system.
Sweden’s Consilium Marine & Safety AB has established its Oil Spill Detection Radar firmly on the market following successful testing by the Norwegian Coastal Administration and the Norwegian Clean Seas Association For Operative Companies (NOFO).
Since the successful tests last year, the Consilium Oil Spill Detection Radar is celebrating increased demand.
Among those newly equipped are the Finnish Icebreaker Kontio, commissioned as a stand-by vessel for the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA), and other customers in Norway, Italy and China. The most recent order has come in for an oil spill response vessel (OSRV) enlisted for cleaning operations in the port of Rotterdam.
In addition to these new contracts, the Consilium Oil Spill Detection radar received the 2010 Vespucci Award for the Innovation Category. The Vespucci Award is sponsored by the Tuscany Region Government and the Italian Industries Association (Confindustria).
The company is well aware that it is sales success that matters. “Of course it is nice to get awards but, at the end of the day, it is the recognition from the customers that shows if a product becomes successful or not”, said Carl Adam Rosenblad, MD of Consilium Marine & Safety AB.
The key feature of the Oil Spill Detection Radar is its ability to integrate a complete oil spill detection function into Consilium’s standard type approved IMO/Solas navigational radar. Furthermore, the new advanced radar processing unit is supported by a special Consilium radar sensor and by its capability to increase the rotation speed of the antenna to up to 44 rpm.
As a result, ships in regular operations can use the primary radar set as a traditional instrument for navigation and the secondary radar display, interfaced to the primary radar, switched to the advanced function of oil spill detection. Using both radar display functions simultaneously, it acts as an efficient early warning anti-pollution unit.
For dedicated OSRVs, the radar means that the stress on the officer is reduced by the fact that he can operate on the same user friendly graphical man-machine interface.
Thanks to advanced real-time signal processing, the Consilium Oil Spill Detection Radar is able to highlight the dampening of the reflected microwave radiation on the radar display and to overlay the same on the Consilium ECDIS. This offers an integrated oil spill response and management bridge system.
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