In recent years, ballast water has been blamed for a variety of marine pollution problems, particularly for transporting harmful aquatic organisms from one part of the world to another and damaging the ecosystem of the new areas. A relatively simple mechanism to control this problem is to exchange ballast water on the high seas between ports in order to remove invasive species before the ship reaches its destination. However, some issues regarding ballast exchange on the open sea need to be addressed before this operation is introduced. One of them is the sloshing of the sea water in the ballast tank. In this paper, ballast water exchange on the open sea by means of the Sequential exchange method is simulated. Irregular seaways are generated from the ISSC spectrum, and the sloshing response of the water in the ballast tanks of a large merchant ship is numerically computed by using a finite difference code developed by the authors. The results showed that there is little possibility that severe sloshing presents a serious problem in regard to the ballast tank’s strength, especially in the case of a bulk carrier whose tanks are generally short in length, with sloshing anticipated only at the low water level.
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ASME 2002 21st International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering
June 23–28, 2002
Oslo, Norway
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- Ocean, Offshore, and Arctic Engineering Division
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0-7918-3612-6
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Makoto Arai,
Makoto Arai
Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan
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Humberto S. Makiyama,
Humberto S. Makiyama
Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan
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Liang-Yee Cheng
Liang-Yee Cheng
University of Sa˜o Paulo, Sa˜o Paulo, SP, Brazil
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Makoto Arai
Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan
Humberto S. Makiyama
Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan
Liang-Yee Cheng
University of Sa˜o Paulo, Sa˜o Paulo, SP, Brazil
Paper No:
OMAE2002-28261, pp. 799-806; 8 pages
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February 24, 2009
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Arai, M, Makiyama, HS, & Cheng, L. "Numerical Simulation of Sloshing of Water in Ship Tanks During Sequential Ballast Water Exchange in Seaways." Proceedings of the ASME 2002 21st International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. 21st International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Volume 2. Oslo, Norway. June 23–28, 2002. pp. 799-806. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/OMAE2002-28261
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