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Ballast water management, axiomatic design, harmful aquatic organisms and pathogens, intuitionistic fuzzy set theory, sufield model, human factors analysis and classification system, performance enhancement.
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Design And Evaluation Of Ballast Water Management Systems Using Modified And Hybridised Axiomatic Design Principles, Lawrence Kuroshi
Design And Evaluation Of Ballast Water Management Systems Using Modified And Hybridised Axiomatic Design Principles, Lawrence Kuroshi
World Maritime University Ph.D. Dissertations
There are two major motivations to this research. The first is based on the concerns raised at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) MEPC 67 and 68 meetings regarding the capacity of some type-approved Ballast Water Management (BWM) Systems to meet the performance standard (D-2) of the BWM Convention at-all-times and in all conditions. The second is based on the reluctance expressed by some ship- owners to install the system onboard their ships as a Lloyd's list survey suggested.
In this work, an attempt was made to address these issues and concerns using a set of criteria stipulated in Regulation D-5.2 …