Cargo & Ballast Handling Simulator (Oil)

OVERALL AIM

It is a practical and theoretical Training Course, aimed at helping the participating Masters and Deck Officers to make a more effective contribution to the safe and environmentally-sound oil tanker cargo and ballast handling operations. The Training Course has been designed according to the IMO Model Course 2.06 “Oil Tanker Cargo and Ballast Handling Simulator”. The cargo related calculations and the simulator exercises constitute the most important and extensive part of the course.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

On completing the course, the Trainees, will:

  • Have acquired a greater awareness of the proper pre-planning, use of the Ship-Shore
    Safety Checklist and of the implementation of safe procedures during loading/discharge
    of crude oil and petroleum products.
  • Be able to take precautions to prevent cargo-generated flammability, electrostatic and
    toxicity hazards.
  • Be able to prepare, perform and monitor all cargo operations, including inerting and gasfreeing,
    tank cleaning operations and crude oil washing.
  • Have acquired experience in identifying operational problems and making decisions to solving them.
  • Be better familiar with the cargo handling equipment, instrumentation, devices and alarms.

FACILITIES

The Training Course will take place at the ATHINA Maritime Learning and Development Center’s K-Sim Liquid Cargo Full-Mission (Class A) and Desk-Top (Class C) Simulators and in the specially designed Loading Instrument – Familiarization Classroom. The Full-Mission Simulator consists of a Centralized Cargo Control Room with all necessary consoles and instrumentation including an Oil Discharge Monitoring and Control System, Overfill Devices, an on-line loading, stress and stability instrument, Inert Gas Panel and a fixed gas detection system. A special compartment simulates the shore loading/discharging terminal station and local deck post stations.

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Daily Schedule

DAY 1

  • 09:30 – 09:45: Introduction, Learning Objectives
  • 09:45 – 10:00: Pre-Training Questionnaire
  • 10:00 – 11:00: Properties of Crude Oil and Petroleum Products
    Nature and origin of Crude Oil
    Upstream production and Petroleum Products
    Basics of Distillation and Cracking Processes
    Physical and Chemical Properties of Hydrocarbons
  • 11:00 – 11:20: Coffee Break
  • 11:20 – 12:00: Cargo Tanks Atmosphere – Content – Measurement – Gasses Layering in Tank
    Flash Point
    Flammability Composition Diagram
    Toxicity (TLV, TWA – STEL Definitions)
    Benzene, Hydrogen Sulfide – Sources and Levels
    Inert Gas Composition
  • 12:00 – 13:00: Type of Oil Tankers, Types of Cargo Pumps, Pumps’
    Operation Theory
    Steam Turbine and FRAMO Pumps
    Pumps Performance Curves
  • 13:00 – 14:00: Lunch Break
  • 14:00 – 15:00: Familiarization with the LCHS Simulators
    No. 1 Exercise “Open Hatches – Leaving the Dry Dock”
  • 15:00 – 15.20: Coffee Break
  • 15:20 – 16:30: Familiarization with the LCHS Simulators (continued)
    No. 1 Exercise “Open Hatches – Leaving the Dry Dock”

DAY 2

  • 09:30 – 09:45: Day 1 Recap – Schedule of 2nd Day Training Activities
  • 09:45 – 11:00: Ship Particulars, Working with Tables and Plans – Calculations
    Cargo Calculations
    Parallel Body Calculation
    DWA Calculation
  • 11:00 – 11:20: Coffee Break
  • 11:20 – 13:00: Familiarization with the Loading Instrument
    Stability Analysis (GZ – Theta Curve) Stability Criteria
    No.2 Exercise “Loading for Specific Arrival Draft”
  • 13:00 – 14:00: Lunch Break
  • 14:00 – 15:00: No.3 (Simulator) Exercise
    “Initial Inerting – Preparation for Loading Operation”
  • 15:00 – 15.20: Coffee Break
  • 15:20 – 16:30: No.4 Exercise
    “Discharging High Temperature Fuel Oil in Cold Sea”

DAY 3

  • 09:30 – 09:45: Day 2 Recap – Schedule of 3rd Day Training Activities
  • 09:45 – 11:00: Planning of Fuel Oil Conventional Loading 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%
  • 11:00 – 11:20: Coffee Break
  • 11:20 – 12:00: Preparation of SQ/03
  • 12:00 – 13:00: No.5 (Simulator) Exercise
    “Arrival in Ballast Condition – Commence Loading”
  • 13:00 – 14:00: Lunch Break
  • 14:00 – 14:30: Topping Up – Finalization of Loading
  • 14:30 – 15.00: No.6 (Simulator) Exercise
    “Loading Operation from 70%”
  • 15:00 – 15.20: Coffee Break
  • 15:20 – 16:30: No.6 (Simulator) Exercise (continued)
    “Loading Operation from 70%”

DAY 4

  • 09:30 – 09:45: Day 3 Recap – Schedule of 4th Day Training Activities
  • 09:45 – 11:00: Ship – Shore Safety Checklist
    Laden Passage Tank Pressure Management
    Means of Venting
    Arrival to Discharging Port – Cargo Calculations
  • 11:00 – 11:20: Coffee Break
  • 11:20 – 12:00: Discharge Rates, Predictions
    Review of Pumps Performance Diagrams
  • 12:00 – 13:00: No.7 (Simulator) Exercise
    “Start Discharging”
  • 13:00 – 14:00: Lunch Break
  • 14:00 – 15:00: No.7 (Simulator) Exercise (continued)
    “Start Discharging”
  • 15:00 – 15.20: Coffee Break
  • 15:20 – 16:30: No.8 (Simulator) Exercise 
    “Stripping and COW Exercise”

DAY 5

  • 09:30 – 09:45: Day 4 Recap – Schedule of 5th Day Training Activities
  • 09:45 – 11:00: Vessel Experience Factor, Gas Freeing Precautions Air Purging
  • 11:00 – 11:20: Coffee Break
  • 11:20 – 12:00: Ballast Water Treatment Systems – On Overview to their Operation Principles
    (Case Studies – ElectroChlronination & Ozone Production)
  • 12:00 – 13:00: No.9 (Simulator) Exercise
    “Full Tank Cleaning Operation”
  • 13:00 – 14:00: Lunch Break
  • 14:00 – 15:00: Simulator Exercise No.6 (continued)
    “Full Tank Cleaning Operation”
  • 15:00 – 15.20: Coffee Break
  • 15:20 – 16:30: No.10 (Simulator) Exercise
    “Final Loading with 75000 BBLS Notice”
  • 16:30 – 17:00: Evaluation of Course – Closing