Comments on: Arctic Shuttle Tanker http://tugster.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/arctic-shuttle-tanker/ scenes from the sixth boro and gallivants beyond Sat, 25 May 2013 13:29:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: walt http://tugster.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/arctic-shuttle-tanker/#comment-20477 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:13:14 +0000 http://tugster.wordpress.com/?p=27819#comment-20477 Thanks for sharing, my bad i always thought -40 Fahrenheit was equal to -40 Celsius, and -40 Centigrade. However, according to my records:
-140C is equal to -220F. At Atmospheric Pressure, Nitrogen boils at: -196C, -321F, and 77K. The Atmospheric Pressure up on the plateau must be a little higher than normal

]]> By: lazerone http://tugster.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/arctic-shuttle-tanker/#comment-20471 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:44:55 +0000 http://tugster.wordpress.com/?p=27819#comment-20471 … this is the power of the oil!
actually there are 5 tankers and several other supporting Icebreakers to “manage” the ice around the terminals.

]]> By: bowsprite http://tugster.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/arctic-shuttle-tanker/#comment-20469 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 04:26:57 +0000 http://tugster.wordpress.com/?p=27819#comment-20469 I love your drawings! So perfect!!!

]]> By: Joe http://tugster.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/arctic-shuttle-tanker/#comment-20466 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:30:23 +0000 http://tugster.wordpress.com/?p=27819#comment-20466 Hey Walt-
That’s -140 and it’s C rate. It’s so cold there in winter up on the plateau that exposed nitrogen, normally used in tires in that climate, liquifies and wrecks the tires, that’s why everything is on crawlers. The Antarctic is 10x as bad as the Arctic, that’s why it’s never been populated until modern times.

]]> By: tugster http://tugster.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/arctic-shuttle-tanker/#comment-20463 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:44:19 +0000 http://tugster.wordpress.com/?p=27819#comment-20463 lazerone– thanks so much for this. it makes a lot of things clear.

]]> By: lazerone http://tugster.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/arctic-shuttle-tanker/#comment-20462 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:12:11 +0000 http://tugster.wordpress.com/?p=27819#comment-20462 to see the loading concept it is useful this other drawing showing a similar tanker “docked” to FOIROT terminal

http://lazerone.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/arctic-tanker-timofey-guzhenko-at-varandey-foirot4.png?w=1400&h=

]]> By: lazerone http://tugster.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/arctic-shuttle-tanker/#comment-20461 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:09:51 +0000 http://tugster.wordpress.com/?p=27819#comment-20461 here is the link to the gallery of “working vessels”

http://lazerone.wordpress.com/about/ship-profiles/cargo-other-working-vessels/

among the drawings you’ll find

http://lazerone.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/arctic-tanker-mikhail-ulyanov1.png?w=1400&h=

and her sister unit using stern against ice

http://lazerone.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/arctic-tanker-kirill-lavrov1.png?w=1400&h=

]]> By: tugster http://tugster.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/arctic-shuttle-tanker/#comment-20459 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:48:11 +0000 http://tugster.wordpress.com/?p=27819#comment-20459 lazerone . . . please send the profile along. if you wish, send it to the email on the upper left. then i’ll post it. ok?

]]> By: lazerone http://tugster.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/arctic-shuttle-tanker/#comment-20457 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:43:03 +0000 http://tugster.wordpress.com/?p=27819#comment-20457 I made the full profile of this huge ship and the “loading” station. It would help to understand her.
If you like I add the link to the drawings

]]> By: walt http://tugster.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/arctic-shuttle-tanker/#comment-20451 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:53:51 +0000 http://tugster.wordpress.com/?p=27819#comment-20451 -40 is that Centigrade or Fahrenheit it doesn’t really matter -40 is where the Celsius and Fahrenheit Temperature scales intersect so It’s same temperature, and very cold too. Flying to Ecuador on a B-767 the outside ambient temperature was -40 at almost 40,000 feet, but the cabin temp 68f, and 20C…

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