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Big Ships Can Lose Big Money on Pumps

A  project by pump maufacturer Grundfos aboard a Lauritzen Bulkers cargo ship shows that large vessels could be losing money on wasted energy. The project, carried out on the 19,889-ton Durban Bulker, focused on efficiency in ship’s pumps. The Durban Bulker project focused on the energy used in cooling off the ship’s engines. The ship uses pumped seawater to cool its engines, but the previous system did not take into account the temperature of the water.