Eight boilers on the USS JOHN F. KENNEDY provide the steam energy to propel and power the ship. The 15 FAC-2000 controllers in this photograph are part of a 75-controller system used to control the eight boilers. The controllers regulate combustion (fuel pressure and air flow), feedwater pressure, and boiler water level, to maintain each main propulsion boiler’s steam pressure and steam flow. FAC-2000 controllers also control deaerating feed tank levels.

This picture shows part of the Collection, Holding, and Transfer (CHT) Tank Level Indication (TLI) system featuring a radar tank level indicator (not shown in picture) from Ohmart Vega and a Fairmount Automation FAC-2000.  The FAC-2000 provides power for the TLI, local indication of tank level and alarm status, retransmission of the tank information to the ships oil lab, and automates a seawater flush sequence to clean the radar TLI head.

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