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J. Ocean Eng. Technol. 2004;18(4):65-70.    

Optimized Ballast Water Exchange Management for Bulk Carriers
HONG CHUNG-YOU;PARK JE-WOONG;
Department of Advanced Marine Transportation Plan and Production Management, Chosun University;Department of Advanced Marine Transportation Plan and Production Management, Chosun University;
벌크 화물선용 자동 밸러스트수 교환계획 시스템 개발
홍충유;박제웅;
조선대학교 첨단해상운송시스템설계 및 생산관리학과;조선대학교 첨단해상운송시스템설계 및 생산관리학과;
© 2004 The Korean Society of Ocean Engineers     Open access / Under a Creative Commons License
Keywords: Ballast Water Management, IMO A.868(20), Sequential Exchange, Heuristic Algorithm, Optimization
핵심용어: 밸러스트수 관리, 국제해사기구 밸러스트수 관리규정, 순차적 교환, 휴리스틱 알고리즘, 최적화
Abstract
Many port states, such as New Zealand, U.S.A., Australia, and Canada, have strict regulations to prevent arriving ships from discharging polluted ballast water that contains harmful aquatic organisms and pathogens. They are notified that transfer of polluted ballast water can cause serious injury to public health and damage to property and environment. For this reason, ballast exchange in deep sea is perceived as the most effective method of emptying ballast water. The ballast management plan contains the effective exchange method, ballast system, and safety considerations. In this study, we pursued both nautical engineering analysis and optimization of the algorithm, in order to generate the sequence of stability and rapidity. A heuristic algorithm was chosen on the basis of optimality and applicability to a sequential exchange problem. We have built an optimized algorithm for the automatic exchange of ballast water, by redefining core elements of the A$ast$ algorithm, such as node, operator, and evaluation function. The final version of the optimized algorithm has been applied to existing bulk carrier, and the performance of the algorithm has been successfully verified.
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