Success in this critical analytical application is the combination of a field hardened XRF technology platform born from years of portable XRF product installations, combined with an advanced combination of diffractive optics technology and energy-dispersive XRF.

The result is a high performance on-board XRF analyzer designed for use in the most demanding marine environments. The SEA-Mate was built per specification by A.P. Moller Maersk for their international fleet of sea vessels.

The SEA-Mate analyzes lubricants and fuels for the presence of wear metals, sulfur content and elemental contaminants within minutes.

The SEA-Mate can analyze both lubricants and fuels, including the detection and measurement of cat fines in the fuel. It provides critical diagnostic information that allows a ship's crew to monitor an engines performance. This information helps prevent receipt of poor quality or off-spec fuel that can wear out the engine and even cause severe damage to critical components.

Results from the SEA-Mate are easily viewed for ship operators to make decisions in real time for regulatrory compliance and true predictive maintenance. Fluid specs can be checked with ASP and CBR/Neural Network technololgy. The Enterprise system connectivity used is typically for connection to quality, asset monitoring, purchasing and ERP/MRP systems.

The SEA-Mate is composed of four main water tight and corrosion resistant components: XRF Unit, Sample Chamber, Computer & Touch Screen

Elements Measured

SEA-MATE® Product Specifications

The SEA-Mate results from on-board measurements correlate very well with controlled laboratory ICP measurements.

The SEA-Mate^® On-Board XRF Fluids Workstation is specialized for marine fluids.

• Fuel analysis
• Sulfur in Fuel
• Cat-Fines (Al & Si)
• Fluid Specs
• Wear Metals
• Lubricant Blends

Oil, additive & fuel samples are typically analyzed on a daily basis to prevent engine or component failure by monitoring the trend in specific wear metals. By analyzing regular scrape down oil samples and looking for elevated concentrations of certain elements like iron, nickel, copper, chromium, lead and other elements, vessel operators try to determine abnormal wear and replace components before a catastrophic failure occurs. Sulfur content is monitored due to increasing regulations requiring that vesels burn lower-content sulfur in many locations worldwide.

The SEA-Mate analysis requires about 5 minutes, and may be used at time of fuel bunkering to check cantfines content and possibley avoid a costly and time-consuming debunkering. Also, the analysis may be used after processing marine fuel with existing on-board centrifuges to verify catfine contet is below recommended limits.