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Title:

Ballast Water Analysis And Heat Treatment Using Waste Heat Recovery Systems On Board Ships

Authors:

Yanran Cao, Vilmar AEsoy, Anne Stene

Published in:

 

(2014).ECMS 2014 Proceedings edited by: Flaminio Squazzoni, Fabio Baronio, Claudia Archetti, Marco Castellani  European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2014

 

ISBN: 978-0-9564944-8-1

 

28th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation,

Brescia, Italy, May 27th – 30th, 2014

Citation format:

Yanran Cao, Vilmar AEsoy, Anne Stene (2014). Ballast Water Analysis And Heat Treatment Using Waste Heat Recovery Systems On Board Ships, ECMS 2014 Proceedings edited by: Flaminio Squazzoni, Fabio Baronio, Claudia Archetti, Marco Castellani  European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2014-0115

DOI:

http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2014-0115

Abstract:

Ballast water contains a variety of organisms including bacteria, viruses and the adult and larval stages of the many marine and coastal plants and animals. As such, it poses serious ecological, economic and health problems and has serious negative effects on the global environment. This paper presents a new efficient ballast water analysis and heat treatment system using waste heat recovery system on ships. The project demonstrates laboratory methods to verify killing efficiency of microorganisms in sea water exposed to heat treatment over a short period of time. Heating times were varied in a range from 20 seconds to 3 minutes. The microorganisms were measured using a flow cytometry instrument and uorescence microscopy to detect living and dead organisms in untreated and treated water. Based on the biological analysis, a related heat treatment simulation was carried out to confirm the control method.

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