The main reason why ships pump water out from the sides is because of ballasting operations. Ballasting is a very important aspect of a ship's ability to maintain stability and safe handling at sea.

Moving a 9,000-ton destroyer halfway around the world sounds impossible until you realize you can just float it onto another ship. Here's how semi-submersible heavy lift vessels use controlled ...

Figure 1: CFD simulates mixing of two fluids in a pipe for type approval. Fig.3: CFD simulation of velocity distribution in ballast water tank close to bottom wall. Figure 2: Sediments accumulate in ...

Followers of the Ballast Water Treatement System (BWTS) situation (ie. presumably anyone reading this publication) were heartened last month when the U.S Coast Guard announced its acceptance of nine ...

Following the engineering scale down prototype “Dragon Dream” phase of the program, the team at Aeros is now entering the design freeze phase for the ML866 (66-ton) Aeroscraft cargo airship. Aeros is ...

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