PREVENTION OF AIR POLLUTION

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 483.

Documentation

* International Sewage Pollution Prevention Certificate.

* Type Test Certificate on Sewage Treatment Plant, approved by the Administration.

* Type Test Certificate on System for comminution and disinfection of sewage, approved by the Administration.

1. Purpose

2. Scope

Tankers operational and cargo procedures.

Refrigerator ships' refrigeration and air conditioning plants.

All ships fire-extinguishing systems.

All ships' exhaust gas.

3.References

IMO Assembly Resolution A.719 (17).Prevention of Air Pollution from Ships.

Standards for Vapour Emission Control Systems. MSC/Circ.585.

HELCOM Recommendations.

4.Definitions

"Volatile organic compounds" -these are various solvents, oil hydrocarbons (propane,

butane, pentane etc, - defined as aliphatic hydrocarbons), its oxydes, benzene, toluenes, xylenes, vapours of poly-nuclear aromatic compounds.

5.Actions

* Chief-Officer of a tanker ensures that:

- closed loading/unloading system in good condition and ready for use;

- ship is ready in all respects to receive and discharge cargoes ( tanks' condition control, inert gas, crude oil washing. venting system, mooring equipment). In the case of any failure Chief-Officer reports to the Chief Engineer.

* Chief-Officer of a tanker uses gas detectors and controls the condition in vessel spaces.

* Cargoes loading/unloading procedures are carried out very properly.

* Tankers are supplied with modern portable gas analyzers.

* All of ships' key-members are trained and certified on manage with portable gas analyzers and fully understand the achieved measuring rezults.

* In tankers' pump-rooms are fitted units for continuous gas control.

* The use of chloro-fluoro carbons (CFCs) and halons is under control.

The general targets of air pollution prevention will be reflected in the forthcomming new Annex VI of MARPOL 73/78.

HELCOM insists on an implementation of the Recommendation 13/15 concerning the use of fuel with the sulphur content less, than 1,5% when trading in the Baltic sea area in order to reduce sulphur dioxyde content in exhaust gas.

In accordance with the HELCOM recommendation 14/8 starting from the 1 January 1995 there is prohibited any incineration of ship generated wastes onboard ships, when operating in territorial seas and inland waters of the Baltic states.