Eight weeks of uninterrupted LOTUS Beacon data on TORM Kirsten’s main engine showed progressive but controlled oil aging — viscosity ratio climbing from 1.00 to 1.65, moisture flagged from Week…
Water saturation hit 28% and moisture reached 1,811 ppm on day one of LOTUS Beacon monitoring aboard MV Shahrastani — a Petredec LPG carrier already fitted with ACONIS. The contamination…
LOTUS Beacon flagged water saturation at 3.5× the acceptable limit on a main engine crankcase — sustained over a week, not a spike. The Chief Engineer acted, purifiers were overhauled,…