DataLog was designed to satisfy customer requests to record fuel usage data for NOx emissions reporting and to simplify fuel inventory control. It also provides the captain with valuable real-time fuel flow data to pinpoint the engine speed to improve fuel economy up to 20% or more. And the individual fuel flow rates and temperatures keep track of the engine’s health and performance. Changes in these parameters under normal operating conditions, such as a reduction in the supply flow rate or a marked increase in the return flow temperature, are a clear indication that something's amiss and should be investigated. This feature alone could save thousands of dollars in downtime and repair costs.
Fuel flow parameters recorded and displayed include:
Net fuel flow rate
Net fuel usage total
Supply flow rate and temperature
Return flow rate and temperature
Vessel parameters recorded and displayed include:
Speed over ground
Course over ground
Fuel efficiency
GPS coordinates
The data recorded on the PC is automatically transferred to a custom-programmed FloScan flash drive as a CSV spreadsheet file. The USB flash drive is automatically synched with the latest "unrecorded" data each time the flash drive is inserted. This can be done daily, weekly, monthly, etc..., to retrieve the data or the file can be manually e-mailed as an attachment directly from the vessel's PC. Each commercial copy can monitor and record up to 16 engines simultaneously on a NMEA 2000 or CANbus backbone. Software also includes custom CSV spreadsheet report generation. Contact FloScan for pricing.
A four-week fuel conservation study using FloScan confirmed that at least a million gallons of fuel can be saved annually, about 90,000 gallons a month, on the state's most heavily traveled ferry route.
DataLog Flyer
