SLURRY CLASS, 30,000BBL Calibrated Capacity, Double Hull – Vapor Recovery
- Dimension: 297.5’x54’x12’ (11’0” at machinery deck)
- Two designs; Lead Rake & Trail Rake
- Vapor tight system with vent stacks, sight glasses, & closed gauging system
- Shore side high level spill alarm
- Visual high level dip sticks
- Ice Strengthen Bow Rake design
- Heavy and/or light product pumps, i.e; (1) IMO & (1) BJ12XT three stage pump
- Powered by two (2) 425 hp pump engines
- Electrical power supplied by an onboard John Deere 99 Kw genset
- Thermal heated by one (1) 8 million B.T.U. Volcanic heater , with a dual fault block out panel
- Cargo Tank Bottoms inclined to facilitate better cargo stripping
- Independent burp tank for thermal oil release
- Cargo Tank Bottoms inclined to facilitate better cargo stripping
- Double layer, serpentine, interwoven, thermal coils, (1 ½” & 21”), stainless steel thermal coils on deck and in the vapor space; heat can be disturbed to any one area of the cargo tanks, even when one set of coils fails or is inoperative
- Two, saddle bag fuel oil tanks, 14,000 gallons onboard
- Pigtail cord electrical back up system
- Redundant OMEGA Over Pressuring System to detect a pipeline or hose blockage thus preventing serious injury
Special Features:
- A hybrid barge capably of either loading clean service product and/or put into heavy oil service to meet market needs
- Increased BBL capacity in way of a increased cargo truck adds cubic capacity over the Heavy Oil Class barge by 7.5% in tank volume!