Accurately measuring & monitoring fuel/bunker usage for a voyage, a certain timeperiod, or distance, is getting enhanced attention in many medias these days..
The Marine Environment Protection Committee, (MARPOL) agreed in summer 2009 to circulate the Guidelines for voluntary use of the Ship Energy Efficiency Operational Indicator (EEOI) as former set out in annex. These guidelines can be used to establish a consistent approach for the use of an EEOI, which will assist ship owners & operators in the evaluation of their fleet performance, regarding CO2 emmissions, NOX pollution and general reduction of greenhouse gasses. As the amount of CO2 emitted from a ship directly related to the consumption of bunker fuel oil, the " Energy Efficiency Operational Indicator" (EEOI), is defined as the ratio of mass of CO2 emitted per unit of transportation work.
MCS completed the delivery of such a system to Bukser & Bergnings vessel T/B Beta in the beginning of this year. The system measures the consumption of the 4 main and the two auxiliary engines and the boiler. By the use of high quality pulsmeters, and intelligent software, the MCS system generously meet new requirements drawn up by MARPOL. For the performance index, the system monitors all consumption VS. changes in ship speed, in real time. In addition the system provides accumulated data for total use in any periodes of time.
