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Investigation of petroleum hydrocarbon pollution along the coastline of South Attica, Greece, after the sinking of the Agia Zoni ΙΙ oil tanker
Oil spills at sea pose risks to the marine environment and to the economy of many nations. Marine ecosystems are very vulnerable and precious as...
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A stacking ensemble learning for ship fuel consumption prediction under cross-training
Accurate ship fuel consumption prediction is vital for the ship** industry. In this study, a stacking ensemble learning is developed to predict...
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Exploring Critical Success Factors for Safety Management of Tanker Vessels
Managing modern merchant vessels is quite challenging task for shipboard personnel, as well as for shore-based managers in ship** companies. The...
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Ballast Water Management System Installations in Hazardous Areas on the Deck of Oil Carriers, Chemical Carriers and Tank Barges
This chapter outlines the requirements for ballast water installations located within hazardous and non-hazardous compartments on ships. When ballast...
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MILP performance improvement strategies for short-term batch production scheduling: a chemical industry use case
This paper presents the development and mathematical implementation of a production scheduling model utilizing mixed-integer linear programming...
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A Practical Speed Loss Prediction Model at Arbitrary Wave Heading for Ship Voyage Optimization
This paper proposes a semi-empirical model to predict a ship’s speed loss at arbitrary wave heading. In the model, the formulas that estimate a...
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Energy Efficiency and Management Onboard Ships
Maritime transport, which makes up 90% of the world's transport, has improved its responsibilities in combating global climate change with its 2050...
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Triboelectric nanogenerator hybrid array driven by multiform natural energies and its applications in self-powered cathodic protection
In view of the increasing energy shortage and environmental pollution, the collection of friction charges to achieve the conversion of various...
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Explosion Hazard Analysis of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Transportation
This paper presents a quantitative risk analysis of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) transportation. An accident that happened on June 13, 2020, on the...
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Investigation of Seasonal Effects on Two-Stroke Marine Diesel Engine Performance Parameters and Emissions
In comparison to onshore facilities, ships, and their machinery are subjected to challenging external influences such as rolling, vibration, and...
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Major Hazards in the Marine and Offshore Industries
Historically, while “hazards of the sea” were well recognised, they tended to be taken for granted. The seamanship of the captain and crew were the...
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Personal Protective and Firefighting Equipment and Safety Arrangements
Suitable personal protective equipment is to be made available onboard for the protection of crew members who are engaged in the servicing,...
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Enhancing Practical Learning in Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Courses via Integration of Commercial Process Modelling Software
Integrating commercial software packages into undergraduate engineering courses is seen as a beneficial pedagogical approach for students in two...
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Control Problems
Several examples of engineering control problems are described for which control of stochastic systems has been developed. Examples treated include...
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Cargo Hold Structure Optimization of Small and Medium-Sized Duplex Stainless Steel Chemical Tankers
A mathematical model of optimization for cargo hold structure of small and medium-sized duplex stainless steel (DSS) chemical tankers based on the...
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Effect of Anti-fouling Coatings and Biofouling on Ship Hydrodynamic Performance
Bioaccumulation of the ship’s submerged region would increase the hydrodynamic volume and poses a major source of carbon emissions to the atmosphere....
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Decarbonization of Maritime Transportation: A Case Study for Turkish Ship Fleet
Climate change and global warming are among the most severe threats to the global ecosystem, caused by greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, all...
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LNG: From the Source to the End Customer
Natural gas is liquefied into LNG at the source using gas liquefaction plants and transported to the hub using LNG tankers. There it is transported...
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Vibration Characteristics of Separated Superstructure of a Ship
The IMO noise code revised in 2012 is applied to newly built ships whose tonnage are equal or larger than 1600GT’s. Particularly for vessels of...
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Waste vegetable oil collection: a comprehensive logistics system for sustainable and efficient resource recovery
The recovery of waste vegetable oil is a complex problem due to the variety of sources that generate it. The current collection systems do not manage...
