Baileys Performance Solutions - Diesel Energy Conversion Technology for the Offshore Drilling Industry

Offshore drilling operations are regulated to the umpteenth degree to comply with environmental directives and mandates, which have no room for inefficient or compromised on-site power sources resulting in poor fuel consumption, poor engine performance, low power and dense smoke concentration.

Baileys Performance Solutions (BPS) can solve these problems by refurbishing the critical diesel fuel injection systems designed and calibrated for engines powering your drill platforms, deepwater drill ships, supply vessels and other engine powered auxiliary equipment.

Refurbished diesel fuel systems for improved engine performance

Engine revolutions per minute (rpm) are stable in drill rigs while engines in drill ships and supply vessels demand a wider range of engine rpm during operation. However, there is a further denominator involved: the operating condition of the fuel injection and air charging systems which influence the overall fuel economy, smoke and engine performance.

There is great importance in maintaining optimum fuel / air compression ratios in marine diesel engines. With diesel fuel prices reaching breaking point, engine manufacturers the world over are contracting specialist manufacturers of fuel injection systems to provide specific efficiency and performance criteria commensurate with the overall task of the engine destined to equip a specific ship and its duties. Service work on these engines will too often be at the cost of fundamental efficiency and performance.

Risks of using mis-calibrated fuel injection systems in diesel engines

Designed as high-precision engineering instruments in micron technology, deviations from purposeful 'factory new' tolerances within the injection system create havoc in efficiency and performance. And that is without the immediate effect on the air charger units which operate to their best under correct exhaust gas pressures and temperatures.

Higher-than-permissible temperatures reduce the oxygen molecule content in the forced air pumped back into the combustion chamber and the inefficiency cycle is repeated in billion increments without becoming tangible to the maintenance crews.

Increased fuel consumption, increased smoke build-up and ever-so-minute loss of power are the first indications that a full refurbishment process will be due soon. The experts start to manipulate the engine block characteristics to make up for the combustion deficiencies and soon enough everything is out of shape.

Refurbished fuel injection and air charging systems

BPS, an authorised importer, distributor and refurbishment partner to OEMs such as DUAP, BOSCH, ZEXEL, KRAL, Diesel KIKI and Lucas Bryce / DELPHI / Woodward, benefits from a comprehensive supply network of genuine, factory new components and parts, which are the quintessence for a ground-up refurbishment together with original engine handbook data stipulating the original performance and validation process vital for the ultimate test protocol certifying and guaranteeing our work to 'as factory-new refurbishment'.

Each cylinder is fed with identical supply of fuel, with the identical fuel spray pattern and the identical fuel pressure, allowing the turbo charger to do its work by feeding into the compression chamber the right amount of air with the right pressure and right dissipation for optimum fuel / air combustion work resulting in optimum engine performance.

Diesel fuel volumeter installations

BPS provides its discerning clients with diesel fuel volumeter installations by KRAL, engineered to meet stringent MARPOL directives and SECA marine fuel standards (DMA / DMB / DMZ) metering modern fuel composites, featuring adjusted sulfure and viscosity qualities. Specific fuel consumption (SFC) under different engine loads are electronically measured via processor technology feeding off the engine speed and torque on the drive shaft itself. Visualised fuel consumption, generated power and SCF are all displayed on one single screen.