Annual General Assembly 2004 - Tasmania

Session 4B

A Study Of The Technical Treatment Within Environmental Appetency For The Ballast Water

Chung Do Nam
Korea Maritime University
1 Dongsam-Dong Youndo-Ku, Busan 606-791, South Korea
kmunam@hhu.ac.kr

ABSTRACT

In accordance with adoption of new Convention for the control of ship's ballast water at the diplomatic conference held in February 2004, every country has to regulate the ballast water and deposit matters.

When this Resolution comes into effect in 2009, all vessels engaged in international voyage must have a ballast water control program, ballast water records and equipment that is suitable to the standard of exchange and performance for the ballast water.

This study estimates objectively their performances, merits and demerits of the ballast water treatment technique and exchanging techniques for safe operation of ships. It is desirable to design an equipment to control the ballast water using the brush-type vacuum suction nonstop reverse cleaning system to overcome the clogging phenomenon and the direct disc filtering to maximize filtering area for the optimum process considering biological availabilities.

It will be expected to protect against marine pollution and to maintain clean sea if it is secured to develop new ballast water treatment techniques.

And it will also cope with the Resolution and each regulation of the developed countries from the ballast water.

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