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Emerging risks from ballast water treatment: The run-up to the International Ballast Water Management Convention [PDF]

Chemosphere, 2014
Uptake and discharge of ballast water by ocean-going ships contribute to the worldwide spread of aquatic invasive species, with negative impacts on the environment, economies, and public health. The International Ballast Water Management Convention aims at a global answer.
Werschkun, Barbara, Banerji, Sangeeta, Basurko, Oihane C., David, Matej, Fuhr, Frank, Gollasch, Stephan, Grummt, Tamara, Haarich, Michael, Jha, Awadhesh N., Kacan, Stefan, Kehrer, Anja, Linders, Jan, Mesbahi, Ehsan, Pughiuc, Dandu, Richardson, Susan D., Schwarz-Schulz, Beatrice, Shah, Amisha, Theobald, Norbert, von Gunten, Urs, Wieck, Stefanie, Höfer, Thomas   +20 more
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Exceptions and exemptions under the ballast water management convention – Sustainable alternatives for ballast water management?

Journal of Environmental Management, 2021
The International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments (BWM Convention) aims to mitigate the introduction risk of harmful aquatic organisms and pathogens (HAOP) via ships' ballast water and sediments. The BWM Convention has set regulations for ships to utilise exceptions and exemptions from ballast water ...
Bailey, Sarah A., Broeg, Katja, Chasse, Joël, Clarke, Stacey, Daigle, Rémi M., Gollasch, Stephan, Kakkonen, Jenni E., Lehtiniemi, Maiju, Normant-Saremba, Monika, Ogilvie, Dawson, Viard, Frederique, Outinen, Okko   +12 more
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Assessing the effectiveness of filtration + UV-C radiation for the treatment of simulated ballast water at various holding times

Water Science and Technology, 2023
In recent years, the issue of invasive alien species brought on by ballast water has drawn increasing attention, and advances in ballast water treatment technologies have been made.
Yanan Wang, Qiong Wang, Kairui Dong, Jianwu Chen, Huixian Wu   +4 more
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Reusing system of the ballast water [PDF]

إبداعات تربوية, 2021
Increasing water consumption is a problem faced by the world; one of its solutions is reusing water. Reuse is about changing processes that result in polluted water byproducts so that the resulting water is usable again. Our solution is to reuse ballast water in transporting oil.
Kirollos Remon Mounir Hozin, Fady Bola Samir, Youssef Khaled Serag El-Den, Moataz Mohamed Sabry   +3 more
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The cadets' understanding of the ballast water management convention [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2022
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) since September 8, 2017, has implemented the Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention as an effort to protect the maritime environment from ballast water pollution.
El Husna Iksiroh, Nasri, Azise Wijinurhayati Anissofiah, Putri Widya   +3 more
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The biological content of ballast water in China: A review

Aquaculture and Fisheries, 2017
The introduction of species through the release of ballast water has become a major threats to marine biodiversity and ecosystem function worldwide. China is one of the top trading countries, yet little is known about exotic species in the ballast water ...
Huixian Wu, Chen Chen, Qiong Wang, Junda Lin, Junzeng Xue   +4 more
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Ship Ballast Water Treatment

WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT, 2021
Ships use ballast water to ensure their buoyancy and stability. A significant amount of them is transported in various water basins of the World Ocean. Thus, together with ballast water, many microorganisms, phytoplankton and zooplankton are transported.
Yuriy Dachev, Miroslav Tsvetkov, Valentin Zlatev   +2 more
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Mid-ocean exchange of container vessel ballast water. 2: effects of vessel type in the transport of diatoms and dinoflagellates from Manzanillo, Mexico, to Hong Kong, China [PDF]

, 1999
Plankton samples were collected from 4 container ships which took on ballast water in Manzanillo, Mexico, and discharged it 21 d later in Hong Kong, China.
Dickman, MD, Zhang, FZ
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Community structure of benthic macroinvertebrates in reclaimed and natural tidal flats of the Yangtze River estuary

Aquaculture and Fisheries, 2019
Previous studies have found differences between communities of benthic macroinvertebrates living in constructed tidal flats compared with natural ones.
Junzeng Xue, Jiqiang Yang, Qiong Wang, Richard B. Aronson, Huixian Wu   +4 more
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Ballast water allocation optimization of crane vessels based on MOEA/D algorithm

Zhongguo Jianchuan Yanjiu, 2021
ObjectivesTo improve the efficiency of the ballast water allocation of crane vessels and reduce energy consumption in this process, an optimization method following a multiobjective evolutionary algorithm based on decomposition (MOEA/D) is proposed ...
Jia ZHOU, Lei SONG
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