DESIGN IV MACHINERY

DEPARTMENT OF MARINE ENGINEERING

CALCULATION AND
SPESIFICATION OF BALLAST
SYSTEM
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Prepared by Approved by
Rev. Date Remark
Danang Jawara Ditya Ir. Hari Prastowo, M.Sc.
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I. INTRODUCTION
A ballast water system allows a ship to pump water in and out of very large
tanks to compensate for a change in cargo load, shallow draft conditions, or
weather. A system of pipes and pumps that serves to take in and expel the
liquid ballast of a ship. Ballast usually taken on in ballast tanks (sections of
double hull, deep tanks, on-board and below-decks tanks, and the forepeak
and after peak); in some instances, it takes into the fuel tanks, and on tankers
into the cargo tanks. The productivity of the ballast-system pumps in a
freighter generally calculated to expel all ballast in four to ten hours.

II. OBJECTIVES
The things that we must understand about this document are:
1. To calculate the equipment requirement to determine pump and pipe
specification.
2. To design a ballast system which suitable to the ship.

III. REFERENCES
1. Lloyd’s Register 2018 Edition Part 5, Chapter 13, Section 11 “Ballast
System”
2. Lloyd’s Register 2018 Edition Part 5, Chapter 25, Section 1 “Ballast Water
Treatment System and Installation”

IV. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

Table 1.1 List of Abbreviations
No Abbreviatio Explanation
. ns
1. B Moulded breadth of ship

2. H Depth of ship

3. d Inside diameter

4. T Draft

5. t time

6. Q Capacity of Pump

7. A Area of cross-section pipe inner diameter

8. v Velocity of fluid flow

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9. hs Head static

10. hp Head pressure

11. hv Head velocity

12. hf Head losses Major

13. hm Head losses Minor

14. Rn Reynold’s number

15. RPM Route per-minute

V. CHAPTER DESCRIPTION
This system designed to be complicated due to the pump that served as the
fluid can only transmit seawater in one direction only. Therefore, the design is
further associated with the public service on Board (General Service System)
is done in other systems interconnect. System design ballasts intimately
connected with the process of loading and unloading in port.

VI. DESIGN REQUIREMENTS

Table 1.2 Design Requirements
No Key
Reference Parameter Design
. Equipment
Where ballasting/de-ballasting is
Lloyd’s required for ship operation or trading
Register purposes stand-by ballast pumping
2018 Edition arrangements are to be provided, see
Ballast
1 Part 5, also Pt 5, Ch 13, 6.2 General service
Pump
Chapter 13, pumps 6.2.1 and Pt 5, Ch 15, 2.4
Section 11, Drainage of ballast tanks and void
11.1.1 spaces within the range of the cargo
tanks 2.4.4.
Ballast tanks and void spaces within
Lloyd’s
the range of the cargo tanks are not to
Register
Drainage of be connected to cargo pumps, or
2 2018 Edition
Ballast tank have any
Part 5,
connections to the cargo system. A
Chapter 15,
separate ballast/bilge pump is to be
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Section 2, provided for dealing with the contents

2.4.1 of these spaces. This pump is to be
located in the cargo pump room or
other suitable space within the range
of the cargo tanks.
Where submerged water ballast
Lloyd’s
pumps are fitted, they are to be
Register
located in separate compartments on
2018 Edition
opposite sides of the ship such that, in
Part 5,
the event of hull damage due to
Chapter 15,
grounding or collision, the risk of total
Section 2,
loss of ballast pumping capability is
2.4.3
minimized.
Ballast piping is not to pass through
cargo tanks and is not to be
Lloyd’s
connected to cargo oil piping.
Register
Provision may, however,
2018 Edition
Ballast be made for emergency discharge of
3 Part 5,
Piping water ballast by means of a portable
Chapter 15,
spool connection to a cargo oil pump
Section 2,
and where this is arranged, a non-
2.4.4
return valve is to be fitted in the
ballast suction to the cargo oil pump.
The BWTS arrangement, including
Lloyd’s treatment units, filtration units,
Register electrical and control units, sampling
Ballast 2018 Edition arrangements, neutralising units with
4 Water Part 5, associated piping and fittings,
Treatment Chapter 25, structural arrangements and
Section 3, hazardous area classification, where
3.1.4 applicable, shall be subjected to
appraisal and be acceptable to LR.
Lloyd’s
Register BWTS are to be installed to ensure
BWTS
2018 Edition that the treatment system can be
Installation
5 Part 5, efficiently isolated from the ballast
Requierme
Chapter 25, water system without impairing
nt
Section 11, ballast water flow.
11.2.1
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VII. SUMMARY CALCULATION

Table 2.3 Summary of Calculation
N Measurement
Object Value
o Unit
Ballast Tank
1 Volume m3 1223.08
2 Depleted Time hours 12
Pipe Diameter
1 Type 125A
2 Outside Diameter mm 139.8
3 Inside Diameter mm 126.6
4 Thickness mm 6.6
5 Material Carbon Steel
Pump Requirement
1 hs m 8.42
2 hp m 0
3 hv m 0
4 Total head loss m 16.45
5 Head total m 24.85
6 Q m3/h 101.93
Ballast – Bilge Pump Chosen
1 Manufacturer HI-SEA
2 Type CLN80-340/2E
3 Q m3/h 141
4 Head m 25.5
Ballast Water Treatment
1 Manufacturer TROJAN Marinex
2 Q m /h
3
from 150 m3/h

VIII. DETAIL CALCULATION

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IX. SPECIFICATION OF EQUIPMENTS

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X. DRAWING OF ARRANGEMENTS
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