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Liquid Cargo Handling Simulator

Shipboard personnel responsible for liquid cargo handling duties can be trained and have their competence assessed using specialized simulators. The Transas LCH simulators meet and exceed all the existing requirements of STCW '95, MARPOL 73/78, IMO, ICS and other international conventions and regulations.

Liquid Cargo Handling Simulator provide both standard and specialized training of all cargo handling operations on board of the following types of vessels:

  • Large Crude Oil Carriers
  • Liquiefied Petroleum Gas Carriers
  • Chemical Tankers
  • Liquiefied Natural Gas Carriers

Liquid Cargo Handling Simulators provide both the full behavioral and physical realism of actual onboard cargo handling operations. Realistically simulated processes have been developed in absolute compliance with the actual capabilities of equipment, including functional limitations and possible errors and failures.

Specialized training is conducted under the supervision of an Instructor, who is capable of setting the tasks, as well as monitoring and controlling the Trainee's performance during the exercises. A Debriefing facility allows subsequent analysis. Excersises can be reviewed in real-time or fast-time modes. Different time scales are available in the fast-time mode to achieve optimal compression of the exercise's duration.

The simulator configuration consists of an Instructor workplace and 3 PC-based Trainee workplaces.

LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS CARRIER

All onboard operations with Liquefied Natural Gas Cargo are realistically simulated with this model. LNG Model is based on independent self-supported spherically shaped tanks (B type) and includes:

  • Ballast system
  • Cargo system
  • Terminal connection
  • Auxiliary cargo systems (Machinery room)
  • Inert gas production system
  • Nitrogen production system

INSTRUCTOR STATION

  • On-Line control of the Trainees Workstations
  • Starting / changing / stopping / the exercise (individual trainee or group)
  • Freezing the situation (Pause)
  • Save / Load the situation (exercise)
  • On / Off on-line control
  • Monitoring of current trainee (operation parameters) on Slave Monitor
  • Logging the alarm's sequence (Event Log)
  • Logging the sequence of actions of trainees (Event Log)
  • Trainee's actual alarm list monitoring
  • Loading of failures by the Instructor
  • Exercise Editor
  • Setting of initial and final states of cargo and ballast tanks
  • Setting of cargo type
  • Generation the tasks for trainees
  • Preparing of checklists of Instructor's information
  • Failures scenario
  • Load calculator (Load Control System)
  • Draft
  • Trim, heel
  • Stability
  • Shearing forces, bending moments
  • Debriefing facility
  • Loading and viewing of recorded exercise on Slave monitor.
  • Choosing certain positions in the record (by events, operation, alarms, time.)
  • Replay from any position

TRAINEE STATIONS

Model of LNG. Structure of model includes:

  • Hull of ship
  • Cargo system (pumps, valves, pipelines and tanks)
  • Terminal connection
  • Ballast System (pumps, valves, pipelines and tanks)
  • Spray system (cooling down)
  • Tanks' inert gas and ventilation system
  • CO2 Inert Gas plant and distribution system
  • N2 Inert Gas distribution system
  • Gas burning system
  • Load calculator (Load Control System)
  • Operation, monitoring and alarm system (Screen Shell)for LNG