Bilgenentöler 8 Papercraft Model by Kallboys
If you go for a walk in Mondorf am Rhein, you might be lucky enough to spot the Bilgenentöler 8 on your way to work. This conspicuous work boat specializes in collecting oil and greasy ship operating waste and sewage from inland vessels and disposing of it professionally. The area of operation of the boat based in Duisburg is the Middle Rhine, the Moselle, the Saar and the Main.
History:
A large number of oily or greasy wastes accumulate on a ship, which can pollute the waters. Engines, hydraulic systems, greased rotating parts such as the screw shaft - all these components can lose such substances. Together with condensation water, they flow into the lowest point of a ship, the bilge - and mix with dust, rust and other substances.
In the past, it was common to simply pump the bilge water out of the boat and into the water. As long as the vehicles were not motorized, this was not an environmentally harmful problem. From today's perspective, this is of course unacceptable, because the number of motorized vehicles increased steadily from the 1950s. Some of the bilge water was pumped out until the early 1960s. From 1958 there was a first boat (Bilgenentölungsboot Helene) from a private company, but it was only used in the Ruhrort area.
At that time, however, it was not yet able to cover the demand profitably. Not least because drinking water was also obtained from bank filtrate, in 1961 the water and shipping directorates demanded that the skippers account for the whereabouts of the bilge oil. This could be accomplished using ships from the Bilgenentölungsgesellschaft, which was also founded in 1961. Later, the federal states financed the disposal, supported by the federal government for many years.
The changed awareness of treating the environment with care also led to the 2009 Convention on the collection, delivery and acceptance of waste in Rhine and inland navigation (CDNI; La Convention relative à la collecte, au dépôt et à la réception de déchets en navigation rhénane et intérieure), which was joined by the six countries Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Luxembourg and Switzerland.
In Germany, the Bilgenentwasserungsverband (BEV) is the national institution responsible for putting the agreement into practice. For this purpose, the association uses contractors who ensure disposal, including the bilge oil removal company. This accepts the solid and liquid waste by floating with its fleet of boats.
Bilgenentöler 8
The Bilgenentöler 8 was built in 1975 at the Arminus shipyard in Bodenwerder with the construction number 10424 for the Bilgenentölungsgesellschaft mbH. The 39m long and 6.5m wide boat was initially powered by a KHD SBF 12M716 with 368 KW at 1500 rpm. In 2019 this was replaced by a Volvo Penta D13B-N MH with 368 kW at 1800 rpm, as the KHD engine had reached its maximum life cycle.
In addition to the ability to suck off the bilge water from the customers' bilges, the collected bilge water can already be separated from the used oil on board. Most of the waste oil obtained can be reprocessed and returned to the economic cycle. In addition to the bilge water, the "Bibo 8" also disposes of waste oil, oil-contaminated waste such as cleaning rags, used oil filters and empty oil containers.
There is a press for the containers, which can compress oil cans and cans in order to save space during the journey until the load is unloaded. The Bilgenentöler 8 is used as a so-called route boat and travels on the Rhine and tributaries.
This distinguishes it from the other special ships that are deployed at one location. The tankers of the bilge oil removal company collect several million liters of bilge and waste oil every year. Each of the currently seven so-called Bibos can filter the water-oil mixture of up to eight inland vessels and pump out the bilge and used oil residues every day. The permanent crew consists of four trained skippers who have also completed training in handling dangerous goods. The ship is operated in several shifts, each with two trained skippers.
Bilgenentöler 8 Papercraft Model
The Bilgenentöler 8 Papercraft Model includes 727 parts and is on a scale of 1:75.
If you want to build the model in a different scale, you can calculate the scaling of the printout with the following formula:
((scale of the papercraft x 100)/desired scale) = percentage of the printout
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Bilgenentöler 8 Papercraft Model
