Mooring Load Monitoring

Strainstall's MoorAlert mooring load monitoring systems provide an accurate indication of mooring loads in multi-line mooring spreads. A vessel's mooring lines are measured by straingauged load measuring pins, installed in the quick release mooring hooks, to provide constant real-time monitoring. This enables each mooring line to be pre-tensioned according to each vessel's individual mooring scheme. The load pins detect any deviation from these defined values and indicate any alarm conditions. The signals from the load pins, together with any other sensors on the hooks, are conditioned by the network interface mounted in a suitable enclosure on the rear of the hook . This then allows the digital sensors from all the hook sensors, along with all other system sensors, to be transmitted over a simple two wire loop back to the control room.

Mooring load monitoring systems provide:

* Mooring set-up data
* Mooring tensions
* Alarm data

The instrumented hooks and electronics for the mooring load monitoring systems can be supplied in hazardous area certified form for use on oil and gas jetties, and have been supplied to many port and harbour installations world-wide.