The development of bilge separation sensor system for improving accuracy

Demand of enhanced bilge separation sensor system has been recently increased due to the severe regulation reinforcement of MEPC (marine environment production committee). Up to date bilge separation sensor has to be extremely accurate and highly reliable. To design and build such a bilge separator, a precise oily water separation level sensor that distinguishes oil from water is critical. Three dimensional simulations have been carried out to figure out the characteristics of capacitive level sensors, which grounds the finding of the parameters required to design the sensors. The parasitic capacitance problem which is inherent to capacitive level sensors has been taken care of. This paper concludes with the future research direction that can be pursued with the newly defined parameters of the capacitive level sensors