A marine fuel management devices or system helps in monitoring and reporting the amount of fuel used by a ship. The system helps in reducing fuel usage and increasing efficiency of the ship. Fuel management system is extremely important on a ship, especially in the times of increasing marine fuel oil cost. With the increasing cost of marine fuel oils, ship owners around the world are looking for methods that allow them to use fuel oil wisely and efficiently. In order to save both fuel and energy of a ship, it is very important to first know how much fuel is being consumed. A Fuel Management System allows you to do exactly this. The system helps in monitoring, measuring, and displaying the amount of fuel oil used by a ship.
Fuel management system wasn’t used on board initially; however with the increasing costs of marine fuel it has become an imperative device on ship. The main goal of the system is to reduce the amount of fuel usage of the ship by improving the operational efficiency of the fuel oil system. On a ship devoid of fuel management system, measurement of fuel usage is done by dipping the sounding tape or stick into each of the fuel tanks or by reading the level gauges of all tanks. Using a manual method, the amount of fuel used during a particular voyage can be easily measured. Whereas a fuel management system not only provides the amount of fuel used but also gives additional data related to fuel usage. A Marine fuel management system provides various other parameters such as the amount of fuel used while traveling at sea or at port, amount of fuel used by a specific engine or generator, comparing fuel usage between voyages, and the amount of fuel used by a particular crew. Apart from this, the system provides a detailed analysis of all fuel oil using systems on board a ship and also allows the ship’s crew to track each and every drop of fuel oil, thus reducing fuel consumption and improving the over all efficiency.
Fuel Management Devices are compact devices dedicated fuel solution for single engine application, which provides instant fuel flow 2.5 to 130 liter/hour, 1.1 to 30 gallon/hour, trip and total fuel consumption, user re-settable, up to 999 units, alarms system on low fuel in tank.
