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Shipboard waste management Possible improvements. Tripartite meeting 15/16 September 2006; Seoul dragos.rauta@intertanko.com. Shipboard waste management. ER Bilge & Sludge Treatment Systems Sewage & Galley effluent Treatment Systems Air Emissions Treatment Systems Garbage.
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Shipboard waste management Possible improvements Tripartite meeting 15/16 September 2006; Seoul dragos.rauta@intertanko.com
Shipboard waste management • ER Bilge & Sludge Treatment Systems • Sewage & Galley effluent Treatment Systems • Air Emissions Treatment Systems • Garbage
INTEGRATED BILGE TREATMENT SYSTEM (IBTS) MSC 55/6/1 – correlation between regulations in MARPOL Annexes I & VI BUT . . . . . . STILL NEED FOR DESIGN & ARRAGEMENT CLARIFICATIONS
ER Bilge & Sludge TreatmentAreas for improvement • Bilge water treatment/OWS systems • Sludge treatment systems • Bilge Water/Sludge treatment systems interface
Bilge water treatment/OWS • OWS capacity on current designs • Aframax - only 2 cub.m/h • Handymax tanker - only 1 cub.m/h • OWS minimum design criteria • Aframax – min. 5 cub.m/h • Suezmax/VLCC – min. 10 cub.m/h • Recommendation:address the issue of Oily Water Separator capacity
Bilge water treatment/OWS • Oily bilge water collecting tank • Recommendation: • Mandate for 2 bilge water collecting tanks, in line with MEPC.1/Circ.511 • Increase the volume of bildge water collecting tanks (as per MEPC 55/6/1) • Oily bilge water in the bilge wells is transferred to the bilge primary tank (of cascade type, with heating possibilities till 90ºC for pre-separation of oil). The high oil contained water is transferred to sludge tanks and the low oil contained water is transferred to the oily bilge water collecting tank.
Sludge treatment • Sludge treatment systems should have 2 sludge tanks operating either in parallel or in series. • These tanks should have enough heating capacity to raise the temperature up to 85º C to assist the separation of the water and also boil off some of the water through the venting arrangements. • Separate sludge tanks are arranged for fuel/diesel oil purifiers and lube oil purifiers • Sludge tank design to facilitate cleaning
Sludge tank for separators design • Tank volume: 2 days storage at a • discharge interval of 2 hours • Manhole for inspection and cleaning • Fitted with a sounding pipe. • Tank floor with a slope of minimum 15°. • The sludge outlet pump connection • positioned in the lowest part of the tank. • High level alarm switch, connected to the sludge pump • Heating coil to keep the sludge warm and fluidwhile • being pumped out • Tank ventilation must follow the classification rules for • evacuation of gases • There should be a ventilation pipe to fresh air • The ventilation pipe should be straight. Any bends must • be gradual • The ventilation pipe kept above the tank top • A sludge tank with partition walls must have ventilation • pipes in all compartments
Boiler soot washings • Recommendation: for new buildings, a separate collecting tank for boiler soot washings treatment
Incinerators • for new buildings: - anticipated sludge production on board will be 0.8% to 1% HFO daily consumption, plus 0.5% MDO daily consumption, plus 15 l every 1000 kw M/E power from drains - sizing of the incinerator based on maximum operation period of 12 hours/day of which only 10 hours will be used for liquid sludge and solid waste and the rest of the period to be used for heating-up/cooling-down, cleaning andmaintenance
CONCLUSIONS • There is room for improvements • IMO revise its regulations • The industry could jointly consider aspects related to design solutions • Are these a theme for the Tripartite? COMMENTS & DISCUSSIONS WELCOMED
IMO Developments • Nov. 1978 – Res. A.393(X) – Recommendation on international performance and test specifications for OWS equipment and OCM • October 1992 – Res. MEPC.107(49) • September 1997 – Res. MEPC.76 (40) on incinerators • October 2004 – Res. MEPC.117(52) • April 2006 – MEPC.1/Circ.511 amended (IBTS) • October 2006 – Danish proposal for further changes