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Chemical and Product Carriers (CPC) are ships carrying at a single voyage a variety of liquefied chemical and oil product cargos. Because these vessels have a complicated layout of a large number of tanks and they transport dangerous cargos, currently, their loading is carried out using commercially available computer codes, called loadmasters. The loadmasters estimate the ship stresses and the hydrostatic characteristics of a vessel for a given loading condition of the tanks. In the present paper an Expert Loading System (ELS) is proposed for the near optimal loading of CPCs. The system designs a loading condition meeting the captain's requirements and proposes a safe sequence for the loading of the vessel, taking into account the international regulations, the loading capacities of a given harbour and the vessel, the allowable drafts of the vessel and her transverse stability characteristics. ELS is fast and user friendly permitting its use even by computer illiterate users, accepts user modifications and presents the results in an attractive way. Thus, port time is reduced leading to significant money savings.
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Bardis, L., Grigoropoulos, G., Kokkotos, S., Loukakis, T., Spyropoulos, C., Vouros, G. (1995). An expert loading system for chemical and product carriers. In: Revell, N., Tjoa, A.M. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 978. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0049135
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