Features & Benefit

Easy Installation, Permanent 5% Fuel Efficiency

What is PBCF?

Features & Benefit～What are the reasons behind the success of the PBCF?～

• MERIT 01

  Fuel oil saving up to 5%

  • PBCF can show a life-time effect regardless of vessel types and vessel size.

• MERIT 02

  Over 37 years of experience,
  PBCF have been installed on more than 4,178 vessels.

  • With the experience accumulated from the sales for more than 4,178 vessels, we provide reliable and durable product for our customers all over the world.

• MERIT 03

  merit 3 Simple construction and easy installation.
  Suitable for new-building and existing vessels.

  • No moving parts, no modification of the hull and no welding work is required.
  • It can be installed on either fixed pitch or controllable pitch propellers.
  • Optimized design and custom-made for each propeller.

• MERIT 04

  Once installed, no maintenance necessary
  and the effect lasts for the lifetime

  • There is no need to pay the additional maintenance cost.

• MERIT 05

  Payback period is short.

  • Less investment and high return.

• MERIT 06

  Classification Approval is not necessary.

  • The major classification societies placed PBCF outside their classification rules.
  • There is no need for vessels to be inspected upon docking.

Easy to replace a conventional cap with PBCF

Replace a conventional cap with PBCF

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  As same as the installation of a normal propeller cap, PBCF is installed by the fastening bolts. It normally takes half a day even for large ships.

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  PBCF installation does not require any change in shafting arrangement since the mass of PBCF is negligibly small for the shafting system.

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  A torque wrench and fastening bolts will be included as accessories of PBCF. We will provide the proper fastening torque in the PBCF drawing.