Chemical tanker traffic constitutes a hazard for the environment; large chemical spills caused by, for example, ship–tanker collisions can have catastrophic effects in similar manner to oil spills. For this reason, it is important to have a generalized spill model for chemical tankers, so that the spill size for a given geographical area can be assessed. The spill volume can be used as an indicator of risk in the given area. Furthermore, such a model can be used to analyze the possible effects of potential risk-mitigating measures such as requiring wider double hulls for chemical tankers. In this article, a spill model is proposed, which for a given collision scenario can model the penetration, spill probability, and size caused by a ship striking a chemical tanker. This is done using finite element method, MATLAB, and statistical metamodels with ship particulars extracted mainly from automatic identification system data from the Gulf of Finland.
Collision consequence estimation model for chemical tankers
01.05.2013
9 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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