WASTE DISPOSAL-CURRENT PRACTICE AND CONVENTION REQUIREMENTS

As a result of vague recommendations of IMCO on the treatment of sewage and its disposal, shipowners will be forced to continue the practice of meeting differing requirements depending on which ports their vessels use. This article presents five choices of sewage treatment plants, and briefly describes the method of operation of each type of plant. The units described include: 1) systems in which biological reactions take place to reduce the B.O.D. of the effluent to a particular limit; 2) systems in which the sewage is retained in the vessel during a port stay and released at sea or at a port facility; 3) systems which reduce the B.O.D. by the addition of chemicals; 4) systems which macerate the sewage to produce a small particle size which is then subjected to disinfection by contact with a hypochlorite,; and 5) sewage incineration systems.

• Corporate Authors:

  Engineering, Chemical and Marine Press, Limited

  33-39 Bowling Green Lane
  London EC1P 1AH,   England 
• Publication Date: 1973-11

Media Info

• Pagination: 2 p.
• Serial:
  • Shipbuilding and Shipping Record
  • Volume: 122
  • Issue Number: 22
  • Publisher: Transport and Technical Publications Limited

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Effluents; Sewage treatment; Ships
• Uncontrolled Terms: Waste treatment
• Old TRIS Terms: Effluent treatment; Sewage treatment systems; Shipboard sewage treatment
• Subject Areas: Environment; Marine Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00052061
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Maritime Research Center, Kings Point
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 26 1974 12:00AM