Patents Assigned to WÄRTSILÄ
  • Patent number: 10378401
    Abstract: A method for dual water scrubbing and an in-line dual water scrubber for gas cleaning onboard a vessel are disclosed. The in-line dual water scrubber includes a vertical extended body, a gas inlet, and a gas outlet. The gas inlet is underlying in the lower section of the extended body and the gas outlet is overlying in the upper section of the extended body. A first underlying scrubbing section, and a second scrubbing section in an upper section of the extended body are provided. One or more liquid collectors are arranged above one or more first scrubbing liquid sprayers. The liquid collector is arranged for collecting one or more second scrubbing liquid and for flow through of a vertical upwards flowing gas-flow from the inlet to the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: WÄRTSILÄ MOSS AS
    Inventors: Jan Gunnar Gannefors, Per Clausen
  • Publication number: 20190170868
    Abstract: A RADAR control apparatus includes a range identifier configured to identify a scan range that is a radial distance from the range identifier, and a control unit configured to receive the scan range and cause a RADAR pulse generation unit to emit a RADAR pulse train that is a pattern of RADAR pulse waves including: a type of RADAR pulse wave; a number of each type of RADAR pulse wave; a RADAR pulse wave duration or RADAR pulse wave width; a RADAR pulse wave amplitude; a temporal spacing between each RADAR pulse wave; a sequential order for the type and the number of RADAR pulse waves; and/or at least one sector of space surrounding the RADAR pulse generation unit through which the RADAR pulse waves will propagate. The control unit is configured to continuously adapt the pattern of RADAR pulses in accordance with the received scan range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: Wärtsilä SAM Electronics GmbH
    Inventor: Kai HANISCH
  • Patent number: 10287996
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a gas valve unit having an enclosure provided with an inlet and an outlet, with an inner pipe arranged to extend from the inlet to the outlet via the enclosure forming a gas tight piping inside the enclosure, and an outer pipe arranged to open into the enclosure via an at least one opening. Walls of the inner pipe and the outer pipe form a space there between as a first volume, and the enclosure forms a space inside as a second volume, the first and second volumes being arrangeable in flow communication with each other via an opening in connection with the outer pipe. At least one blocking unit selectively blocks the at least one opening in connection with the outer pipe and the flow communication between the first volume and the second volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: WÄRTSILÄ FINLAND OY
    Inventors: Klaus Widjeskog, Marko Kuusisaari, Tomas Högnabba
  • Publication number: 20190101069
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a gas valve unit having an enclosure provided with an inlet and an outlet, with an inner pipe arranged to extend from the inlet to the outlet via the enclosure forming a gas tight piping inside the enclosure, and an outer pipe arranged to open into the enclosure via an at least one opening. Walls of the inner pipe and the outer pipe form a space there between as a first volume, and the enclosure forms a space inside as a second volume, the first and second volumes being arrangeable in flow communication with each other via an opening in connection with the outer pipe. At least one blocking unit selectively blocks the at least one opening in connection with the outer pipe and the flow communication between the first volume and the second volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Applicant: WÄRTSILÄ FINLAND OY
    Inventors: Klaus WIDJESKOG, Marko KUUSISAARI, Tomas HÖGNABBA
  • Publication number: 20190078735
    Abstract: An exemplary bilobe or multilobe tank for storing liquefied natural gas includes at least two tank sections, each tank section having a curved upper surface and curved bottom surface, the tank sections being joined to each other so that the tank has an undulating upper surface and an undulating lower surface. Each tank section is connected to an adjacent tank section with at least one connecting duct so that a horizontal flow path is formed between the lowermost points of the adjacent tank sections or between the uppermost points of the adjacent tank sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicant: WÄRTSILÄ FINLAND OY
    Inventors: Mathias JANSSON, Martin RÅHOLM, Marcin MALYS, Maciej ADAMOWICZ, Malgorzata KOCZUR-GRAZAWSKA, Grzegorz SLUSARSKI
  • Publication number: 20190078734
    Abstract: An exemplary tank arrangement for storing liquefied natural gas includes a multilobe tank having a gas-tight shell, wherein the arrangement includes a gas-tight and heat-insulated partition wall arranged within the shell for dividing the tank into a gas storage space, which is configured to hold liquefied natural gas, and a tank connection space, which is configured to enclose tank connections and valves associated with them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicant: WÄRTSILÄ FINLAND OY
    Inventor: Sören KARLSSON
  • Publication number: 20190078736
    Abstract: An exemplary tank arrangement for storing liquefied natural gas includes a multilobe tank having at least three tank sections arranged in a row in a lateral direction, wherein each tank section is supported against a support surface with a first support allowing movement of the tank relative to the support surface in the longitudinal direction and with a second support, at least one of the second supports preventing movement of the tank relative to the support surface in the longitudinal direction. One tank section has a third support, which allows movement of the tank relative to the support surface in the longitudinal direction and prevents movement in the lateral direction. The first and second supports allow shrinkage and expansion of the tank in the lateral direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicant: WÄRTSILÄ FINLAND OY
    Inventors: Marcin MALYS, Maciej ADAMOWICZ, Malgorzata KOCZUR-GRAZAWSKA, Grzegorz SLUSARSKI
  • Publication number: 20190072016
    Abstract: When an internal combustion engine is driven at a low rate below a certain threshold value, exemplary embodiments as disclosed herein allow and restrict a reductant flow to an injector in repeating allowing cycles and restricting cycles. During the allowing cycles the controller is set to keep the reductant flow as close as possible a determined low point setpoint value. During the restricted cycles the reductant flow is prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: WÄRTSILÄ FINLAND OY
    Inventors: Timo Alho, Markus Lövholm, Andreas Holmqvist
  • Publication number: 20190017431
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a turbocharged internal combustion engine which will flush dirt periodically from the heat exchange surfaces of the LT-charge air cooler by using water condensed on the heat exchange surfaces for the flushing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Applicant: WÄRTSILÄ FINLAND OY
    Inventors: Vesa HILAKARI, Juha KUJALA, Ville-Veikko MÄKINEN, Kari NIEMINEN
  • Patent number: 10174662
    Abstract: An arrangement for treating exhaust gases of an internal combustion piston engine in a marine vessel, includes an exhaust gas channel coupled at its first end to the engine and having its second end opening to the environment, and a scrubber unit arranged between the first end and the second end of the exhaust gas channel. The arrangement has an exhaust gas channel cleaning system arranged to apply cleaning liquid on inner surface of the exhaust gas channel to a portion of the exhaust gas channel between the scrubber unit and the second end of the exhaust gas channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: WÄRTSILÄ FINLAND OY
    Inventors: Petteri Nurmi, Sami Parkkinen, Martti Raevaara, Jyrki Ristimäki, Valtteri Vainio
  • Publication number: 20180327052
    Abstract: An exemplary method is disclosed for estimating operational efficiency of a marine vessel with a propeller mounted to a rotatable shaft for converting rotative shaft power transferred from the shaft to the propeller into thrust to propel the marine vessel across water, the method including obtaining a respective time series of values for operating parameters of the marine vessel; constructing a multi-dimensional power matrix for a first time period based on operating parameter values within a respective sub-series thereof that represents a first time period; computing, for one or more propulsion parameters, fouling values based on information stored in the power matrix and information stored in a base matrix, of a reference fouling level; and creating indications concerning operating status of the marine vessel in dependence of the fouling values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2015
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: WÄRTSILÄ FINLAND OY
    Inventors: Ronald VAN MIERT, Frank VELTHUIS, John KOP, Kenny JOOSEN
  • Publication number: 20180328254
    Abstract: The heat insulation structure for a component of an exhaust system of a piston engine is arrangeable around the component such that an air space is formed between the component and the heat insulation structure, and includes an outer shell layer a middle shell layer that is arranged inside the outer shell layer, and a first inner shell layer that is arranged inside the middle shell layer. A first air gap is arranged between the outer shell layer and the middle shell layer, a first insulation layer is arranged between the middle shell layer and the first inner shell layer, and the outer shell layer is provided with venting apertures for natural ventilation of the first air gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: Wärtsilä Finland Oy
    Inventors: Pasi Lehtonen, Christer Nygård, Robert Lundström, Heikki Suurholma, Juha Hakala, Juha Niemi, Arto Aho, Georg Eriksson, Osmo Suomivirta
  • Publication number: 20180320654
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of preparing a lip-type shaft seal for, a method of installing a lip-type shaft seal on a shaft of an underwater application, and a lip-type shaft seal therefor. Exemplary embodiments, can be especially advantageous as they can provide a lip-type shaft seal with a point of noncontinuity having such form-locking elements that the actual installation of the seal around the shaft under water may be performed by using the form-locking elements without the use of a habitat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Applicant: WÄRTSILÄ FINLAND OY
    Inventors: Henric ANNELUND, Henrik LUNDGREN
  • Publication number: 20180304969
    Abstract: An exemplary method for a marine vessel having a propeller mounted to a rotatable shaft for converting rotative shaft power transferred from the shaft to the propeller into thrust to propel the marine vessel across water, includes obtaining measurement values that are descriptive of the shaft power, the thrust and speed through water of the marine vessel; separately estimating at least one of first excess shaft power caused by fouling of the propeller and second excess shaft power caused by fouling of the hull of the marine vessel; and issuing an indication of propeller cleaning in dependence of the first excess shaft power and hull cleaning in dependence of the second excess shaft power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2015
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: WÄRTSILÄ FINLAND OY
    Inventor: Ronald Van Miert
  • Patent number: 10088108
    Abstract: A method for filling a fuel tank with liquefied gas includes liquefied gas being brought into the tank so that gas in introduced to a lower section of the tank below the surface of the liquefied gas in the tank, and during a first phase of the filling procedure while gas is introduced to a lower section of the tank the pressure of the tank is maintained below a predetermined set pressure by spraying of liquefied gas into a gas space in the upper section of the tank above the surface of the liquefied gas in the tank. At a predetermined state of the filling procedure a second phase of the procedure is initiated during which the spraying liquefied gas into a gas space in the upper section of the tank is decreased and the second phase is practiced until a predetermined filling stage of the tank is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: WÄRTSILÄ FINLAND OY
    Inventors: Mathias Jansson, Soren Karlsson
  • Patent number: 10087825
    Abstract: A digital waste gate arrangement in an internal combustion piston engine has at least one turbocharger with a compressor part and a turbine part. A flow control unit has more than two individually controllable on-off valve units, and a pneumatic actuator system is arranged to control each on-off valve individually. At least one control gas inlet port is in connection with the pneumatic actuator system, which control gas inlet port is arranged in connection with a downstream side of a compressor part of the turbocharger via a control gas passage. The control gas for operating the flow control unit is arranged available for the pneumatic actuator sys-tem through the control gas passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: WÄRTSILÄ FINLAND OY
    Inventor: Janne Maenpaa
  • Publication number: 20180266628
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fuel tank arrangement of a marine vessel including a fuel tank for Liquefied Natural Gas, the fuel tank having a shell, a heat insulation in connection therewith, connections for a pipeline for bunkering LNG to the fuel tank, a pipeline for taking boil-off gas from the fuel tank and a pipeline for taking LNG from the fuel tank, and a deep well pump for pumping LNG from the tank to the pipeline, wherein at least one recess is extending inwardly from the shell and being arranged on top of the fuel tank, the deep well pump being installed in the at least one recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: WÄRTSILÄ FINLAND OY
    Inventors: Sören KARLSSON, Frank HARTEVELD, Frans LAUNONEN, Piero ZOGLIA
  • Patent number: 10072599
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine uses gaseous main fuel and liquid pilot fuel and has a plurality of cylinders and an engine controller capable of adjusting a burning state of each cylinder through fuel regulation, including fuel cut off, upon occurrence of abnormal combustion. A method of operating the internal combustion engine includes, upon occurrence of abnormal combustion in a cylinder in a gaseous mode, cutting off the main fuel into only the cylinder and the fuel injection is kept partially active with a pilot fuel injected by a pilot nozzle of the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: WÄRTSILÄ FINLAND OY
    Inventors: Christer Hattar, Fredrik Östman, Patrik Fors, Ulf Åstrand
  • Patent number: 10048166
    Abstract: Disclosed is a monitoring apparatus for monitoring a state of wear of a component of a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine wherein an oil collection device is provided for the collection of lubrication oil from the cylinder so that a predetermined measured quantity of lubrication oil is suppliable from the cylinder to a measurement device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Wärtsilä Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Francesco Micali, Matthias Stark, Markus Weber
  • Patent number: 10018275
    Abstract: A sealing arrangement is used when mounting a thruster in a well box attached to a hull of a marine vessel. The well box has an axis, a bottom flange, a top flange, an annular wall therebetween and hoisting pipes fastened parallel with the axis to the bottom flange radially outside the annular wall. Both the well box and a mounting flange have at least one surface acting as a sealing surface between the well box and the thruster. At least one of the surfaces has a groove for a seal for preventing water from entering the well box. The well box has a rotationally symmetric wall with an internal guide surface and the mounting flange of the thruster has an axially extending rotationally symmetric part provided with an outer surface having means for sealing the mounting flange in relation to the well box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: WÄRTSILÄ NETHERLANDS B.V.
    Inventors: Albert Drost, Jeroen Van Loon, Davor Bilic, Jan Kees De Bruin