Dredge Yard on fuel saving solutions

Dredge Yard participated in the Western Dredging Association (WEDA) and Texas University’s Dredging Summit and Expo 2014 that took place at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto, Canada.

Article from World Dredging Magazine

 The participants of the event were mostly leading organizations in dredging and port industry, maritime professionals and experts on environmental issues that exchanged the knowledge in fields related to dredging, marine engineering and environment.

Dredge Yard’s representatives were Basel Yousef, the CEO and Iulia Berchiu, the Marketing Manager of the company. 

“Expanding the dredging world” was the theme for the event in which Basel Yousef has covered the “Fuel Saving Solutions” topic that is one of the most debated subject among all the industries.

“We highlight the problems and solutions about a major component that has been used for the dredgers for the past 30 years without making any change for improving its effiency and safety in operations.”, said Iulia Berchiu.

Dredge Yard presented two solutions for solving major problems, one of them being the inflexibility of the dredge ball joint and the other one being the blockage of the flow.

To solve the inflexibility of the ball joint that occurs due to the rustweld that follows after rusty surfaces, Dredge Yard presented a new design called bearing ball joint. This dredge component is featured with additional bearing liners allowing the ball joint to move easier and to have less friction against tilting moments.

For the blockage of the flow that is created by the ball joint when it is tilted up to its maximum bend angle, Dredge Yard presented a new design having a concave ball liner that allows the mixture to flow easier and have no blockage. Blockage of the mixture results in local increase of flow speed that has a positive effect in pressure drop.

Dredge Yard: Dredge Yard expansion

Dredge Yard: Dredge Yard expansion: Dredge Yard has recently invested in additional new machines in its workshop in Turkey including CNC vertical lathes and a CNC Pattern M...

Dredge Yard expansion

Dredge Yard has recently invested in additional new machines in its workshop in Turkey including CNC vertical lathes and a CNC Pattern Maker in order to increase its capacity in the machining and assembly shop to bring these functions up to the capacity of the casting and fettling shops.

Dredge Yard Makina in Turkey

 

Dredge Yard's subsidiary in Izmit, Turkey is focusing on production of components and equipment needed for the dredging and mining industries. Some of the main components supplied from Dredge Yard at Makina are dredge pumps, dredge ball joints, turning glands, swivel bends, dredge valves, tumbler blocks and cutter heads.

Dredge Yard is also co-operating with many new partners in the region for the casting and machining in order to cope with the demand for the company’s products.

Dredge Ball Joint in Dredge Yard Makina

The company is able to supply components in multiple materials that can be used in dredge pumps, ball joints, bends and many others. Components are cast with Dredge Yard’s partners and fettling is done in the facility in Izmit.
Once the machining is done, all products are thoroughly tested, inspected and assembled at Dredge Yard work shop and made ready for transport.

The recent capacity increase will allow Dredge Yard to make its own casting patterns and machine more parts up to 2.5 meters in-house and shorten the delivery time and save transport costs.