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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"International Maritime Organization"”.
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International maritime organization : rethinking marine environmental policy
… the IMO and, at worst, may prove disruptive to international shipping. The purpose of this thesis is to put concerns over the role of the IMO in international environmental regulations negotiations into a specific context and attempt to view the organization's treatment of the issues it is faced …
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Evaluation study for an ammonia-fed and solid-oxide fuel cell powered trailing suction hopper dredger for Van Oord Offshore Contractors
… the quest to meet the Paris agreement goals, the maritime industry is facing some serious challenges. To reduce the GHG emissions in the industry, many Zero-Emission technologies and clean fuels have been studied. United Nations’ International Maritime Organization has set the goal to reduce the …
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Determining Emission Factors from Marine Vessels Employing Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (DOAS) and Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy (TDLAS)
… and impact coastal region air quality. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) regulates SO2 emissions by requiring ships to use fuel with varying degrees of sulfur depending distance from land. Due to lack of techniques for measuring emissions, regulations are often violated, leading …
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Market-based approach for improving ship air emissions
… intended to design or optimize a system for the maritime community. The study considered the current input and discussions within the International Maritime Organization and its Marine Environment Protection Committee and identified three major thought patterns in proposed systems for the …
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Analyzing the feasibility of lithium-ion batteries to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in Maritime shipping
The International Maritime Organization aims to reduce CO2 emissions in the shipping industry by 50% by 2050. One of the methods for meeting this goal is to electrify ships with lithium-ion batteries. A 14-ship sample was analyzed to determine the feasibility of installing lithium-ion batteries …
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Understanding current environmental issues and their impact on ship design
… first a general study of current and future international, regional, and local marine emissions regulations was performed. The recent progress of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) was then closely followed. Emissions reduction technologies that could be used to meet the proposed …
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Análise da estabilidade intacta de navios de apoio offshore sob perspectiva da segunda geração de critérios de estabilidade da IMO
… first generation of stability criteria of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), which are mainly based on static considerations. However, a number of accidents related to intact stability have clearly demonstrated that stability criteria needed to be revised to address modes of failure …
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Feasibility Assessment for Amine-Based Shipboard Carbon Capture
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) set goals to reduce CO₂ emissions by 40% in 2030 with efforts toward 70% in 2050 when compared with CO₂ released per ton-mile in 2008. Maritime traffic relies on non-renewable energy-dense fossil fuels and alternative energy sources have yet to prove …
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Nuclear Microreactor-Powered Container Ships for Maritime Decarbonization
The maritime shipping industry, responsible for approximately 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions, faces growing pressure to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 under the International Maritime Organization (IMO) framework. Alternative fuels such as liquefied natural gas, ammonia, and methanol …
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A probabilistic evaluation of tank ship damage in grounding events
Recent international and domestic regulatory actions have resulted in significant changes to oil tanker designs and intensified attention on predicting tanker environmental performance following groundings or collisions. The current analytical method defined by the International Maritime …
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Testing the use of port biological baseline surveys to support relevant marine alien species management applications in Africa
… (BWM) processes have matured significantly at international levels over recent decades, with the support of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and its BWM Convention. The development of baseline species and environmental data for port areas is increasingly recognized as a …
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Landbaserad rening av barlastvatten, ett realistiskt alternativ för Göteborgs hamn? – Nuvarande situation och framtida förutsättningar
… marina ekosystem är så stort att FN-organet International Maritime Organization (IMO) år 2004 beslutade att anta en konvention med syfte att bekämpa ytterligare spridning. Då konventionen trätt i kraft kommer handelsfartyg att tvingas rena sitt barlastvatten med en av de metoder som godkänts …
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Impacts of reducing shipboard NOx̳ and SOx̳ emissions on vessel performance
The international maritime community has been experiencing tremendous pressures from environmental organizations to reduce the emissions footprint of their vessels. In the last decade, air emissions, including nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulfur oxides (SOx), volatile organic compounds, and particulate …
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Analytical and Numerical Methods Applied to Nonlinear Vessel Dynamics and Code Verification for Chaotic Systems
… the new generation of stability criteria in the International Maritime Organization (IMO). The advantage of this extended Melnikov's method is it overcomes the limitation of small damping that is intrinsic to the implementation of the standard Melnikov's method. The extended Melnikv's method is …
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Maritime surveillance with small satellites
Maritime surveillance is one of the interesting topics nowadays. Monitoring of the ocean and the exclusive economic zone are a prevalent task for many countries. One of the crucial tasks is to make surveillance of the ship traffic and their activities in the ocean. Maritime surveillance usually …
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Integrated Maritime Simulation Complex Management, Quality And Training Effectiveness From The Perspective Of Modeling And Simulation In The State Of Florida, USA (A Case Study)
Naturally, maritime training simulators at all events are valuable instructional and pedagogical tools. Through the history, the maritime simulation was utilized to train prospective maritime apprentices in whom it has filled the gap left by the acute shortage of opportunities for jobs onboard …
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Study on mixing, modelling and control of an SCR system
… engines. In order to comply with stringent International Maritime Organization (IMO) Tier III NOx emission regulations, a number of engine manufacturers have developed their own SCR systems with an option of installing SCR reactors before or after the turbines of engine turbochargers. This …
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Developing a Large-Scale Multi-Modal Modeling and Optimization Framework for Freight Transport Network Analysis
… efficiency in addition to speed demands. For maritime transport, the framework comprises hydrodynamic simulation with high fidelity and cybersecurity threat modeling, such as GPS spoofing, to analyze operational resilience. A test case of an S175 container vessel from Savannah, USA, to …
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Investigations on hydrodesulfurization reactions using slurry catalysts and supercritical water
… on open seas. Globalization and rising demand of international transportation of goods has led to a strong increase of heavy fuel oil consumption. Sulfur, present in vacuum residue to high extent, forms environmentally hazardous sulfur oxides (SO2 and SO3) when being burnt in the ships engines. In …
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Quantifying human performance during passenger ship evacuation
… numbering in the thousands. For this reason, the International Maritime Organization (IMO), which regulates the maritime industry, provides guidelines for evacuation analyses for passenger ships [1]. The scope of work presented in this dissertation fills gaps in our understanding of human …
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