Tank cleaning efficiency not available from any comparable system

Milbros has always provided complete, reliable and up-to-date information to enable tanker fleet operators to make sure every vessel handles valuable, volatile and hazardous cargoes in the safest way possible.

Q88 is now really proud to say that we have made it even better! We’ve improved Milbros with the addition of UV Graphs which support on-vessel testing of wash water to identify the level of cleanliness of cargo tanks.

Advances in the development of UV Spectrophotometry equipment now make it practical and cost effective for testing to be carried out aboard each vessel. Wash water from the cleaning process is analyzed using ship-board UV Spectrophotometer equipment to plot the level of contamination in the tank’s wash water from the previous cargo on a graph.

This is compared against Milbros UV Graphs which benchmark contamination at the 100 parts per million (PPM) standard, allowing an accurate assessment of how clean the cargo tanks are. It’s a simple but effective principle, and it is a feature that is not available from any comparable system.

Chemical tanker cleaning transformed!

Over the next year it is likely that ship-board UV Graph testing is going to become the industry-standard for determining the cleanliness of chemical cargo tanks. Like many of the best ideas, UV Spectrophotometer wash water testing of chemical cargo tankers has enormous benefits which transform cleaning, translating into time and money saving efficiencies. These include:

• Significantly reduces tank cleaning time and the potential for over-cleaning using conventional cleaning recipes
• A significant reduction with the potential to eliminate the need for very high risk ‘Confined Space Entry’ of tanks by crew members or surveyors
• Lower fuel consumption, resulting in reduced bunker costs and CO2 emissions across entire fleets
• Optimized cleaning processes, reducing the consumption and cost of chemical cleaning agents
• Reduced need for retention of tank cleaning residues on board
• Ability to evaluate the cleanliness of the entire cargo containment system including pumps and pipelines that cannot be easily inspected
• Improved cargo quality through reduced contamination by previous cargoes
• Reductions in port time when wash water testing is accepted in place of visual and/or wallwash inspections by load port surveyors

To prevent erroneous tests that do not accurately reflect the residual contamination levels in a single wash water sample, Milbros UV Graphs let you compare up to seven samples with the 100ppm standard at once.

With over 70 UV Graphs for the most popular chemical cargoes that are compatible with UV Spectrophotometry water testing, a continual program of updates is expected to increase the number of 100ppm UV graphs to at least 200 within a year.

Safety, cargo handling, cleaning data and more at your fingertips

• From/To Tank Cleaning Recommendations
• Safety Data Sheets (SDS)
• Regulatory Data (IBC Code Product Names)
• GESAMP Profiles
• Prior Cargo Lists (FOSFA, NIOP, EU, CIQ and Kosher)
• Specifications and Cargo Handling
• Coating Resistancy (Stainless, Zinc, Epoxy)
• USCG Compatibility Groups & Exceptions
• Heating Requirements
• Inerting/N2 Requirements
• Safety/Emergency Information
• PPE Recommendations
• Chemicals’ Physical Properties