Engine Room Research Articles

Application of Safety Procedure As Efforts To Prevent Work Accidents In MT. Serang Jaya Engine Room

Safety Procedure is a formal written safety procedure and contains procedures, identification and obligations to carry it out while working. Not optimal due to lack of understanding of Safety Procedures that pose a risk of work accidents. This study aims to determine the causes and impacts of the non-optimal implementation of Safety Procedures and efforts so that the Safety Procedure can run optimally so as to prevent work accidents in the engine room. The research method used in this study is a qualitative method with a descriptive pattern. Research data sources are obtained from primary and secondary data. Data collection techniques through observation, literature study, interviews and documentation during the time researchers carried out marine practices on the MT ship. Serang Jaya. The data analysis techniques used are by collecting data, reducing data, presenting data and drawing conclusions or verifying data which is also supported by fishbone analysis. Testing the validity of data using the tringulation method. The results stated that the factors of not optimal Safety Procedure due to lack of crew understanding of Safety Procedure, and crew concern for safety as well as lack of supervision and coordination between crew and management are the reasons why Safety Procedure cannot run optimally. The impact of not optimal Safety Procedure is the high risk of work accidents, hampering ship operations, harming the ship or the parties concerned. Efforts that can be made to optimize this are by carrying out Safety meeting activities, Toolbox Meeting, Drill, installing Safety Signs. And always provide counseling related to Safety Procedure in the engine room.

Global Pipe Optimization for Ship Engine Room

Global Pipe Optimization for Ship Engine Room

Coupling CFD and VR for advanced firefighting training in a virtual ship engine room

Firefighting training using virtual reality (VR) technology has still not been used extensively in the maritime industry. One of the reasons lies in the inability of VR to accurately replicate the true dynamics of a fire. However, this shortfall can be effectively addressed by integrating computational fluid dynamics-based (CFD) models of fire spread into VR training simulations, thereby significantly enhancing the realism and educational value of these scenarios. In this study, a scenario of a fire spread inside the ship engine room has been developed. First, as a CFD analysis, whose results were then transferred to the VR environment. That approach has been tested with users who have noted that CFD-based fire gives a more realistic appearance than the generic modelled solely using the game engine.

Exploring the Perceived Ease of Use of an Immersive VR Engine Room Simulator among Maritime Students: A Segmentation Approach

Exploring the Perceived Ease of Use of an Immersive VR Engine Room Simulator among Maritime Students: A Segmentation Approach

Creep assessment of thermoplastic materials for non-structural components in marine engines

The substitution of metals with fiber-reinforced polymers represents a well-established practice in the automotive and aerospace industries, driven by advantages such as cost reduction, weight savings, and environmental benefits. In the marine engineering sector, there is a growing interest in this metal replacement trend, particularly for non-structural components of marine engines that can be produced by adopting proper fiber-reinforced thermoplastic polymers. However, evaluating the suitability of such materials for marine applications necessitates a thorough understanding of their creep behavior, given the demanding operational environments and strict safety standards. The material selection process must intricately consider the material's susceptibility to creep through tailored material design methodologies. Moreover, redesign activities should aim to leverage the material's creep-resistant properties while ensuring adequate strength and simplifying installation procedures. Unfortunately, unlike the automotive industry, testing innovative plastic components in real environments on working engines is quite impossible. Neither engine manufacturers nor owners would allow jeopardizing their machinery by installing technologies not yet certified in a delicate environment such as a ship's engine room. In this context, finite element simulations offer a valuable tool to assess the material's creep performance and validate the proposed design when experimental measurements cannot be performed, hence predicting the component behavior over its intended lifetime. This study aims to exploit finite element analysis to evaluate the creep behavior and suitability for marine engine applications of a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic material, focusing on a camshaft cover of a four-stroke marine engine currently manufactured from aluminum alloy. Through numerical simulations, a commercial 30 % wt GFs/PA6,6 thermoplastic composite emerges as a promising candidate, demonstrating adequate creep resistance while significantly reducing weight, processing costs, and energy consumption. The results obtained from the present study lay the foundations for the adoption of such material-based technology also in the marine engine sector despite the difficulties coming from the peculiarities of this industry.

Analysis of the Effect of Sound Dampening on Ship Engines Based on Tofu Dregs Composite Material (Glycine Max (L) Merill)

Noise in the engine room of a ship is a significant problem that can affect the health and comfort of crew members. This study aimed to evaluate the potential of tofu dregs as a sound insulation material in the form of a composite of carbon black and talak duco. The research method included making composite specimens with variations in composition, followed by testing the sound absorption coefficient using the impedance tube method. The results showed that the specimen with 30% tofu dregs, 45% carbon black, and 25% talak duco produced the highest sound absorption coefficient of 0.24. These findings show that tofu dregs have potential as an environmentally friendly and economical sound insulation material and can be used to reduce noise in ship engine rooms. This study contributes to the development of natural fiber-based insulation materials in the maritime industry.

Study of the Effect Launching System using Airbags on the Hull Structures of Pinisi Ship

Using airbags for ship launching is a technological innovation with promising implications for the shipbuilding industry. Considering the inefficiency and time consumption of the traditional Pinisi ship launching method, an airbags system is considered an alternative technology. This research involves a simulation of applying airbag technology for ship launch on the Pinisi Ship to assess stress concentration and magnitude. The Pinisi ship, airbags, and skates are designed in three dimensions on a real-size scale for analysis and then analysed using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) in ANSYS software. During the launch, the keel of the ship and airbags were subjected to a compressive force with a 3-millisecond analysis time. The stress and stress concentration levels in the Pinisi ship's structure vary between using airbags and the traditional launch method during launch. The ship's engine room bulkhead and the bow collision bulkhead structure underwent considerable tensile and compressive stresses in longitudinal and transverse orientations. The average maximum compressive stress and maximum tensile stress that occur in the longitudinal direction of the ship are around 50.2 MPa and 87.3 MPa, respectively. Compared to the maximum compressive stress, which accounts for 36% of the overall maximum stress encountered, the highest tensile stress experienced by the ship's structure is 64%.

Studi Motion Sickness Incidence (MSI) Pada Kapal Patroli (KAL-28) Katamaran

Motion sickness or seasickness is a condition caused by the movement of a ship that results in dizziness, nausea, and vomiting. The Motion Sickness Incidence (MSI) Study on the Patrol Catamaran (KAL-28) aims to evaluate the comfort level of passengers and the safety of the ship's crew during operations, following the ISO 2631/1997 standards. The evaluation is conducted on the vertical acceleration response of the ship under various wave conditions, speeds, and wave directions. Mapping is performed in various areas of the ship, including the deck, navigation room, and engine room, considering wave heights of 0.875 meters and 2 meters at speeds of 15 knots, 22.5 knots, and 30 knots. The research results indicate that at a speed of 15 knots, the deck area, navigation room, and engine room meet the criteria from comfortable to somewhat uncomfortable. However, at speeds of 22.5 knots and 30 knots, these areas are rated as somewhat uncomfortable to very uncomfortable. This study emphasizes the need for ship design that considers both passenger comfort and safety, especially for patrol catamarans

Pengaruh Penambahan Surfaktan Estolida dan Digliserida pada Pelumas Minyak Goreng terhadap Temperatur Mesin dan Daya

Lubricating oil is a type of fluid needed by a machine to carry out work steps. Significant changes in the temperature of the lubricating oil viscosity until it is too low makes the engine components less lubricated, which causes the engine components to heat up quickly because the friction between the metals that occurs becomes greater. Lubricant that is of poor quality can cause deposits to appear in the engine room which results in the engine working harder. The aim can be achieved in this research by varying the lubricating oil with a mixture of Estolide and Diglyceride surfactant percentages of (2.5%, 5% and 7.5%). This test was carried out on a petrol motorbike with a combustion chamber volume of 125cc with standard conditions. The data that will be taken in this research includes engine temperature and power. The power testing method using a dynamometer and lubricant with cooking oil mixed with 7.5% estolide surfactant after heating produces an average value of 6.52 HP which has a higher average value than oil with a value of 5.37 HP

Method for Collaborative Layout Optimization of Ship Equipment and Pipe Based on Improved Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning and Artificial Fish Swarm Algorithm

The engine room is the core area of a ship, critical to its operation, safety, and efficiency. Currently, many researchers merely address the ship engine room layout design (SERLD) problem using optimization algorithms and independent layout strategies. However, the engine room environment is complex, involving two significantly different challenges: equipment layout and pipe layout. Traditional methods fail to achieve optimal collaborative layout objectives. To address this research gap, this paper proposes a collaborative layout method that combines improved reinforcement learning and heuristic algorithms. For equipment layout, the engine room space is first discretized into a grid, and a Markov decision process (MDP) framework suitable for equipment layout is proposed, including state space, action space, and reward mechanisms suitable for equipment layout. An improved adaptive guided multi-agent Q-learning (AGMAQL) algorithm is employed to train the layout model in a centralized manner, with enhancements made to the agent’s exploration state, exploration action, and learning strategy. For pipe layout, this paper proposes an improved adaptive trajectory artificial fish swarm algorithm (ATAFSA). This algorithm incorporates a hybrid encoding method, adaptive strategy, scouting strategy, and parallel optimization strategy, resulting in enhanced stability, accuracy, and problem adaptability. Subsequently, by comprehensively considering layout objectives and engine room attributes, a collaborative layout method incorporating hierarchical and adaptive weight strategies is proposed. This method optimizes in phases according to the layout objectives and priorities of different stages, achieving multi-level optimal layouts and providing designers with various reference schemes with different focuses. Finally, based on a typical real-world engine room engineering case, various leading algorithms and strategies are tested and compared. The results show that the proposed AGMAQL-ATAFSA (AGMAQL-ATA) exhibits robustness, efficiency, and engineering practicality. Compared to previous research methods and algorithms, the final layout quality improved overall: equipment layout effectiveness increased by over 4.0%, pipe optimization efficiency improved by over 40.4%, and collaborative layout effectiveness enhanced by over 2.2%.

An investigation of the effect of workload on ship engine room operators using fNIRS

This is an investigation into the Performance Shaping Factors (PSFs) associated with ship engine room operators. This study looks at the effect of workload. There is a large portion of human error associated with marine incidents. Human error may be considered as a result of additional supplementary tasks on top of an accustomed workload. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of workload on human performance. To achieve this, a TRANSAS simulator series 5000 was used to replicate a real scenario with the addition of workload as a PSF. Each participant engaged in a fault detection and correction task. 20 participants were used for the workload study; all 20 were trained for 3 h to use the engine room software interface. The participants then completed a 30-min ballasting task. During this interaction, 50% of the participants underwent a simulated scenario where the workload was increased. The other 50% were given a standard task. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) was used to measure the participant's activation levels, more specifically from the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) region of the cerebrum. The results showed an increase in activation of the DLPFC during each phase of the task, this trend was magnified by the addition of increased workload. The results are discussed with respect to human performance during varying workload. From the results of this study, a human classification performance model was developed. This model can be used by the maritime industry to better evaluate and understand human error causation.

Situation awareness information requirement for marine engine room monitoring at the future shore control center

Information integration for explicit comprehension can be highly challenging in a large-scale system with interconnected equipment under the influence of the environment. This presents a great challenge in acquiring and maintaining situation awareness during the transition from traditional to remote and, eventually, to autonomous operation. However, the maritime industry appears to approach situation awareness in a highly restricted manner that focuses on visual and navigational awareness only, resulting in no support system for engine room monitoring. This research conducted a goal-directed task analysis with thirty-one subject matter experts, with an average sea experience of 9.78 years, to investigate situation awareness in the engine room. As a result, the situation awareness information requirements for nine machineries and twelve systems are developed. The findings reveal that numerous perception elements, and their complex combinations, for higher-level awareness comprise situation awareness, and situation awareness deterioration is highly likely, due to the replication or reproduction of ship sense and expanded system coverage to compensate for the lack of marine engineers on ships. This research proposes that presenting higher-level situation awareness information in consideration of schema instantiation could be a promising alternative to developing and optimising the situation awareness support system for engine room monitoring at the future shore control center. Highlights The replication of conventional monitoring systems for remote operation results in a loss of situation awareness information as the conventional systems are designed to collaborate with human operators onsite The relocation of humans from ships to shore must incorporate the transfer of information that human operators generate Situation awareness in the engine room comprises numerous information elements and requires a high level of information integration skills for comprehension and projection Situation awareness support systems must facilitate information integration while maintaining a balance between system explainability and simplicity Cue strength differences in comprising comprehension and projection might effectively address system complexity and situation awareness

Thermal runaway and combustion of lithium-ion batteries in engine room fires on oil/electric-powered ships

The thermal characteristics of traditional fuel fires can be altered by the thermal instability of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) in–oil-electric hybrid ships. The thermal runaway (TR) and combustion of 18,650 LiFePO4 LIBs with 0 %, 50 %, and 100 % states of charge (SOC) in pool fires were studied with different annular n-heptane pools. The goal is to simulate the thermal safety of LIBs in hybrid ships within the thermal environment of pool fires. The flame morphologies resulting from the combustion of the battery and pool fires, temperatures of the battery surface and flame, exhaust characteristics of the battery, heat radiated from the pool fire to the battery, and mass losses were analyzed. The results showed that the risks of thermal runaway and combustion with LIBs were significantly higher in a thermal fire environment. Lithium batteries produce jet fires that increase the width and height of the flame during pool fires. Moreover, the battery with a 0 % SOC doesn’t experience thermal runaway during the fire, but thermal runaway of the battery with a 100 % SOC is more severe than that of the battery with a 50 % SOC, and the maximum rates for their temperature increases are 12.98 °C/s and 7.12 °C/s, respectively. In addition, the energy balance method showed that the pressure relief by the battery safety valve during a fire was not dependent on the SOC. An equivalent network diagram was constructed for the radiative heat transfer between the lithium battery and the pool fire. It is proposed that the total heats required to induce thermal runaway of batteries with the same SOCs are almost the same in different thermal environments, but the energy required for the 50 % SOC battery is greater than that required for the 100 % SOC battery, 10,161 ± 59 J and 9724 ± 43 J, respectively. Moreover, the combustion rates were proportional to the height of the flame during the mixed combustion of a lithium battery jet fire and pool fire. A dimensionless model was developed for the relationship between flame height and mixed combustion rate.

DESIGN PRIORITIZATION STUDY FOR A SEMI-SUBMERSIBLE NAVAL SHIP BASED ON FAST DECISION METHOD

Recently, number of countries included various types of special operations crafts to their navies. One type of these crafts is called semi-submersible naval ship, which utilizes superior properties of a submarine and a surface ship. This paper presents general characteristic design features of these type of ships. Additionally, a design prioritization study based on a Fast-Decision survey was carried to determine the importance of different design features of such ships. Survey participants were chosen from experienced naval officers who served the Navy. The responses are analyzed and presented with bar charts which shows the order of importance of the different design parameters. Results reveals that the most important operational tasks for a semi-submersible naval ship are naval special operations capability and ability to infiltrate, dodge and operate in hostile waters while the most important functional features are high maneuverability in surface operations and low acoustic detectability in underwater operations. In addition, it appears that the size of the control room and engine room is more important than the ship's ability to be transported by another vehicle. The authors are intended to make conceptual designs for semi-submersible naval ships and investigate their hydrodynamic features in future studies.

A bowtie model for fuel gas leakage incidents in an FPSO engine room

Safety and operational costs are of paramount importance in offshore facilities. Efforts to find new ways to reduce operational costs and minimize risks have led to the development of techniques in the field of safety. Routine checks and equipment maintenance are conducted based on either calendar periods or equipment uptime, using conditional monitoring, to prevent malfunctions through preventive maintenance (PM). PM is a key strategy for ensuring the integrity and process safety of safety barriers in offshore facilities. However, due to challenges in modeling dependencies, determining maintenance intervals, and updating belief in operational data, ineffective safety barriers can occur and lead to incidents. Excessive maintenance can also increase the risk of operational mistakes among workers. This study examines safety and operational issues associated with fuel gas leak events caused by various risk factors in Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) engine rooms using the bow-tie model. Within this context, safety barriers are defined, encompassing both preventive controls and mitigating measures that can be employed to minimize potential risk factors. Furthermore, the study underscores the importance of maintenance intervals for a specific set of safety barriers, necessitating periodic testing using Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) tools for FPSO units.

Geotechnologie stosowane w konstrukcjach antropomorficznych: Wykorzystanie georadaru do wykrywania problemów strukturalnych, przyczyn i skutków - studium przypadku w Coimbrze w Portugalii

One of the recurrent problems in civil construction concerns the wear and deterioration of structures due to their use over time. There should be a plan for monitoring the structures to assess and quantify anomalies, which will allow the minimization and rehabilitation measures to be carried out in advance. This study aimed to use geotechnologies, specifically the Ground Probing Radar (GPR), to identify and quantify the damage caused using a swimming pool inserted in a structure built on a residential property. The methodology comprised the use of georradar Sensors & Software PulseEKKO GPR for data acquisition. The data were processed in the software EKKO Project considering the following parameters: 1- Grain/Filter: Dewow + SEC2 Gain (Attenuation:10.00 Start Gain:4.00 Maximum Gain: 950). Seven acquisition profiles were performed: 3 on the East side, 2 on the South side, and 2 on the West side of the pool, with a spacing between 0.8 m. From the visualization of the processed radargrams, and the slices elaborated for each profile with a color palette corresponding to the obtained reflectance values, it was possible to identify the underlying structures of the pavement of the edge of the pool such as beams, beam frames, slope, interior space of the support structure and, most importantly, the degree of subsoil materials alteration, depth, and dispersion of water infiltrations. On the East side, the pool is inserted into the rock formation; it is possible to identify up to 1 m depth of the water infiltration and dispersion. To the West and South, the pool is supported by a built-up structure; underneath there is a hall and the engine room. In these places, the infiltration and dispersion of water were identified until approximately 0.7 m depth, as well as the existing structures and their condition. The 0.7 m corresponds to the thickness of the existing slab and beams. Based on these results, an intervention plan was prepared for the rehabilitation of the deterioration of the materials and the minimization of water percolation through the waterproofing of the pool's surrounding areas.

Environmental impact investigation of combined CCS and SCR on a ship by a case study

AbstractThe environmental and economic performance of a post‐combustion solvent‐based carbon capture system (CCS) combined with a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system is investigated on a 48,600 kW engine container ship to meet the International Maritime Organization's emission reduction strategies through 2050. The proposed system uses aqueous ammonia to mitigate the produced CO2 and NOX emissions onboard a ship. Moreover, the combined system is investigated through a voyage‐based case study using an engine room simulator, assuming that CCS and SCR are implemented on the reference ship. During the case study, the referenced container ship sailed from Rotterdam to New York, and the estimations were made by using Netpas Distance 4.0 software program. Results indicate that a total of 3,606.04 ton‐CO2 and 92.40 ton‐NOX are produced, while 3,345.43 ton‐CO2 and 40.67 ton‐NOX are captured during the voyage. Furthermore, an economic analysis is carried out after the case study. Findings of the economic analysis are: CAPEX of CCS is $32.07 MM and SCR is $2.19 MM, while OPEX of CCS and SCR are $188,873 and $103,681, respectively. In addition, it was calculated that implementing CCS could avoid the CO2 tax cost of $19,472, while the economic value of the CO2 captured was $113,590. © 2024 Society of Chemical Industry and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Advancing maritime technology: Evaluating situation awareness support systems for engine room monitoring at the future shore control centre

ABSTRACT Remote operation offers promising advantages as a viable transitional phase toward autonomous ships, but at the same time, it introduces new challenges in maintaining situation awareness. However, situation awareness is misunderstood as an essential construct for only navigational tasks, albeit situation awareness issues are recurrently reported during system monitoring, e.g. power plants. Hence, this within-subjects study developed the two situation awareness support systems for engine room monitoring based on information requirements and schema instantiation. Sixteen marine engineers participated in the four simulation experiments, and their objective and subjective situation awareness, fault detection rate, response speed and change blindness were evaluated. The findings describe that presenting a few critical perception elements for comprehension is promising to mitigate interface complexity and enable efficient pattern matching. However, caution is necessary for selecting the means of access to elements of low importance, as it can induce attentional tunnelling and additional cognitive load, which can devastate the situation awareness and fault-detecting performance when compounded by high cognitive load from primary monitoring tasks. This study recommends entailing the current level of situation awareness, cognitive load and stress into the support system design to determine the extent and timing of assistance for varying operational demands.

Sistem Keselamatan Terhadap Kebisingan Di Kamar Mesin Berbasis Mikrokontroler Arduino Uno

One of the organs in the body that can help humans maintain balance is the ear. One of the body's main sound-producing organs is the ear, which also produces sound because it has unique receptors that can detect sound waves. However, the frequency range between 20 Hz and 20,000 Hz is the high limit that the ear can hear. This is why individuals often experience acute hearing loss after exposure to loud sounds or more than 20,000 Hz. A tool that can detect noise in an area, such as in an engine room, was created to overcome this problem, especially on ships After designing the tool and testing the safety system tool for noise in the engine room based on the Arduino Uno microcontroller, this system became a new technology for monitoring noise in the engine room. Then testing on all sensor readings worked well with an average percentage error on the ship running 0.70% and on the ship stopping 1.19% and the distance between the transmitter and receiver reaching a range of 290 cm without obstructions and with obstructions reaching around 130 cm. After all the equipment is working properly, earmuffs can be used to protect human hearing by educating all crew members to be able to use earmuffs when entering the engine room or going to work.

Sailing through uncertainty: ship pipe routing and the energy transition

The energy transition from fossil fuels to sustainable alternatives makes the design of future-proof ships even more important. In the design phase of a ship, it is uncertain how many and which fuels it will use in the future due to many external factors. In fact, a ship typically sails for decades, increasing the likelihood that it will use different fuels during its lifetime. Pipe route design is expensive and time-consuming, mainly done by hand. Motivated by this, in previous research, we have proposed a mathematical optimizationframework for automatic pipe routing under uncertainty of the energy transition. In this paper, we build on the state-of-the-art by implementing design constraints in mathematical models based on discussions with maritime design experts. Additionally, we apply these models to realistic, complex situations of a commercial ship design company. Our experiments show that location-dependent installation costs, which reflect reality, increase the usefulness of stochastic optimization compared to deterministic and robust optimization. Additionally, to prepare for a possible transition to more sustainable fuels, we recommend installing suitable pipes near the engine room upfront to prevent expensive retrofits in the future.