The multipurpose vessel ENDAM combines oil spill restoration actions with upkeep dredging duties
Built for the Korean Marine Environment Management Corporation (KOEM), the multipurpose vessel Endam combines emergency oil spill restoration actions with upkeep dredging duties and contains a turnkey dredge bundle equipped by Damen.
Designed by KmsEmec, the vessel contains a 4,100 cubic meter hopper maintain and was constructed by HJ Shipbuilding & Construction at its Busan shipyard. The mission tools bundle offered by the Damen Technical Cooperation (DTC) staff included a 15 meter inflexible oil sweep arm with a devoted pump and dealing with crane for the emergency oil spill restoration performance, and the entire turnkey dredging system, which was designed particularly for the vessel.
TURNKEY DREDGE PACKAGE
The turnkey dredge bundle consisted of each loading and discharging tools, a hydraulic system, dredging management system and varied drives. A 900 mm trailing suction pipe, designed to dredge at a most depth of 30 meters, is hoisted by three devoted gantries and their hydraulically operated winches. All the trailing suction pipe parts are positioned starboard aft.
A Damen dredge pump, sort BP9075HD, accomplished the dredge pipe preparations. The extremely environment friendly slurry pump is designed for each suction dredging, in addition to discharging over the bow utilizing the bow coupling unit or rainbow nozzle. This hopper discharging tools, together with 12 backside dump valves which Damen designed, was all a part of the dredge bundle. Addtionally, dredge valves in varied strain levels had been delivered for the suction and discharge piping. Dedicated dredging instrumentation accomplished the dredge bundle and is essential to monitoring and visualizing the dredging course of and optimizing dredging operations.
Thanks to the DTC staff’s intensive expertise in part integration at non-Damen yards, the big system components had been delivered from the Netherlands and built-in effortlessly. As effectively because the mission tools, the supply scope included a hydraulic system. This was a logical selection because the dredging tools is its essential consumer. Additionally, a 3,500-kW electrical dredge pump drive and a 1,000-kW electrical jet water pump drive had been shipped to Korea. The supply was accomplished with a full set of spares and Damen additionally carried out the commissioning and coaching on board.
The vessel’s identify, Endam, means “the fence that protects you” within the Korean Jeju dialect. A festive handover ceremony happened in the summertime and Endam has now efficiently began working alongside the Korean coast.
