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Ocean Engineering, Vol.257, 111571, 2022

Collision-accidental limit states-based safety studies for a LNG-fuelled containership

Author(s) : Su Kyeong Kim, Sung-In Park, Jeom Kee Paik

Abstract:
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is an increasingly popular fuel alternative of ships for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The interest in LNG fuel propulsion systems is rapidly growing, yet certain important safety design and engineering issues remain poorly constrained. The safety of LNG-fuelled ships must be assessed in terms of the potential structural damage owing to collision accidents and resulting LNG spills, especially for ship types that store the LNG storage tank within the cargo hold. In this paper, accidental limit state (ALS) based safety assessment for LNG-fuelled containership structures using nonlinear finite element methods is studied at the most unfavourable scenario of collisions between a striking ships bow and a struck ships LNG fuel tank, where the struck ship is in full load condition at a standstill, while the striking ship of the same size as the struck ship has different loading conditions in the ballast load condition, 50% partial load condition and full load condition, with varying collision speed at 0.5, 3, 6 and 9 knots. A hypothetical 9,000 TEU (Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit) LNG-fuelled containership was designed in accordance with the requirements for the international gas fuel transport standards, accommodating a membrane-type LNG fuel tank located amidship. It is found from the present study that inner side hull structures of the struck ship can be damaged in ship-ship collisions, and the current industrial guidelines for LNG fuel tank designs are required to amend to apply for LNG-fuelled ships.

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