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There are many other things that we can use loadicator for.
This post will highlight at least five of these things you can do
with loadicator.
Other than trim and list, we also ensure that shear forces and
bending moments does not exceed the safe limits.
Even keeping the SF & BM closer to but less than 100% over a
longer period & multiple voyages can have the cracks
developing in the ship’s structure.
If you are looking for average loading rate for last say one hour
or two hours, you should set the time for one or two hours.
But if you want the current loading rate, the time should be set
to 5 to 10 minutes. You would ask why 5 to 10 minutes and
why not 1 minute or 1 hour?
If you set the time too less, any small fluctuation will give you
wrong loading rate. Also, your loading rate will fluctuate all the
time.
If you set the time too high, you will get the average rate for
that time but that might not be the present rate. For example,
if you have set the time to 1 Hour, and you stopped the cargo
for 10 minutes. You would still get a rate averaged for last 1
hour which will not be your present rate.
While taking the sample of dock water, you should take the
sample from mid of the seawater depth.
After entering all the values, click on calculate constants, and
whoop. Loadicator calculates weight as well as location (LCG
and VCG) of constants you should enter in the loadicator.
As you know these are very common situations chief officer &
Master find themselves in. And then we shift the weights
arbitrarily to bring the ship to the desired condition.
But most of the loadicators have this function where you can
set the desired condition (Like list to be zero or trim to be 1.5
m or both and choose the tanks from where the weights can be
adjusted. Rest will be done by the loadicator. It will give you
the final weights these tanks should have to bring the ship to
the desirable condition.
You can set the desired trim or list and choose the tanks which
you want to switch weights. After choosing all this, you click on
calculate
It will calculate the weight to transfer and will give you
before/after summary of these tanks to get your desired
results.
4. Replacing ullage tables with Loadicator
Did you know with some loadicators, you don’t need to look at
those ullage tables anymore ? You just enter the ullage of a
particular tank in the loadicator and it will give you volume that
will match with your ullage table.
While all loadicators can give volumes for ullages, but not all
matches with the ullage tables. The reason can be any of the
following
1) Some loadicators do not correct the ullage for the trim and
list. These loadicators give the volume at zero trim and zero
list. If the ship has trim during final calculation, you have to
use ullage tables for volumes.
There are very few loadicators which can correct the volumes
for trim and list. But there are many ships where there is no
trim & list correction to the volume or ullage.
These are the ships which have the ullage port located at the
center of the tank.
For example, see the image above. As you can see if the ullage
port is located at the center of the tank, there is no change in
the ullage with a change in trim. On these ships, you can
directly take the ullage from the loadicator.
Even if your loadicator doesn’t correct the ullages for trim and
list to give volume, it is still possible that volumes from
loadicator and ullage table match. This is when in ullage tables,
trim correction is applied on the ullage and not on the volume.
For example, if we look at ullage table in the image above, trim
correction is applied to the volumes. So say for 4-meter ullage
with 1-meter stern trim, ullage table will have the volume
2350.1 m3. But loadicator will show the volume as 2350.6 m3.
So in this example, you cannot take volumes from loadicator
for the final calculations.
The image is from actual ullage table of a ship. And as you can
see the reference for reading ullage in this ullage tables is the
MMC (or UTI) read out point. But your loadicator might be
measuring the ullage from either the tank top (height B) or
from vapor lock (height B+H).
If that is the case, you cannot take volume from the loadicator
for the ullages taken by UTI or MMC.
5. Wedge calculation
You can even get the wedge calculation sheet which you can
save or print.
Conclusion