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  2. Van Buren Township, Michigan - Wikipedia

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    Website. Official website. Van Buren Township is a charter township in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. A western suburb of Detroit, Van Buren Township is located roughly 28 miles (45.1 km) southwest of downtown Detroit, and 17 miles (27.4 km) southeast of Ann Arbor. As of the 2020 census, the township had a population of 30,375. [3]

  3. Bunkering - Wikipedia

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    Bunkering is the supplying of fuel for use by ships (such fuel is referred to as bunker), [1] including the logistics of loading and distributing the fuel among available shipboard tanks. [2] A person dealing in trade of bunker (fuel) is called a bunker trader. The term bunkering originated in the days of steamships, when coal was stored in ...

  4. Marine fuel management - Wikipedia

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    Marine station in Bartolomeo hotel, Dnipro. Marine fuel management (MFM) is a multi-level approach to measuring, monitoring, and reporting fuel usage on a boat or ship, with the goals of reducing fuel usage, increasing operational efficiency, and improving fleet management. MFM has grown in importance due to the rising costs of marine fuel [1 ...

  5. Fuel polishing - Wikipedia

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    Fuel polishing. Fuel polishing is the technical cleaning process used to remove or filter microbial contamination from oil and hydrocarbon fuel in storage. It is essentially the removal of water, sediment and microbial contamination from such fuels as diesel, red diesel and biodiesel. This fuel contamination, also known as 'fuel bugs', or ...

  6. J. W. Westcott II - Wikipedia

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    May 2010: Cummins Marine QSB 5.9, 305 hp (227 kW) [citation needed] Speed. 15 knots. J. W. Westcott II is a boat known for its delivery of mail to ships while they are underway. It operates out of Detroit, Michigan, and is the only floating ZIP Code in the United States. [ 2 ]

  7. Belleville, Michigan - Wikipedia

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    Belleville, Michigan. Belleville is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. A western suburb of Detroit, Belleville is located roughly 29 miles (46.7 km) southwest of downtown Detroit, and 18 miles (29.0 km) southeast of Ann Arbor, and is completely surrounded by Van Buren Township. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population ...

  8. Oil tanker - Wikipedia

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    Also, when tanks are to be inspected or maintenance must be performed within a tank, it must be not only cleaned, but made gas-free. [103] On most crude-oil tankers, a special crude oil washing (COW) system is part of the cleaning process. [103] The COW system circulates part of the cargo through the fixed tank-cleaning system to remove wax and ...

  9. In-water surface cleaning - Wikipedia

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    In-water cleaning, also known as in-water surface cleaning, is a collection of methods for removing unwanted material in-situ from the underwater surface of a structure. This often refers to removing marine fouling growth from ship hulls, but also has applications on civil engineering structures, pipeline intakes and similar components which ...