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The shadow drawing examples below is from a 42000 DWT Chemical Tanker with horizontal

and vertical corrugations.

The tank cleaning machines in the below examples are with 12 mm nozzle.
Effective COW jet length tested by DNV & NK is 21 meter at 8 bar.
Capacity per nozzle is 17 m3/h at 8 bar.

2 x Multilevel. Jet hit angle 15 degrees


2 x Multilevel. Jet hit angle 0 degrees
1 x Multilevel and 1 x singlelevel. Jet hit angle 15 degrees
1 x Multilevel and 1 x singlelevel. Jet hit angle 0 degrees
1 x Singlelevel and 1 x singlelevel. Jet hit angle 15 degrees
1 x Singlelevel and 1 x singlelevel. Jet hit angle 0 degrees
1 x Multilevel. Small centre tank. Jet hit angle 15 degrees
1 x Multilevel. Small centre tank. Jet hit angle 0 degrees
1 x Multilevel and 1 x singlelevel. Jet hit angle 15 degrees and 14,7 meter jet length.

Effective COW jet length is tested by DNV & NK rules to 21 meter.


Effective jet length according to DNV ETC Notation is 70 % of the COW effective jet length.
70 % of 21 meter = 14,7 meter.
It will require 30 meter COW effective jet to get 21 meter DNV ETC jet length. It means a
capacity of approx. 50 m3/h per nozzle in stead of 17 m3/h at 8 bar.

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