Automatic communication system ship to shipping terminal, for reporting potential malfunctions of a ballast water treatment system operation

This research paper reviews ballast water treatment systems in two parts regarding data and methods: multi-criteria analysis and reliability study. The problem is how to timely recognize failure or operation stoppage of a ballast water treatment system. In the first part the multi-criteria analysis parameters and scenarios have considered the functional and operational problems of the systems. Aim of the study was to determine the most optional system from the maintenance point of view related to data transfer amount. The best score was 62% and it was the system that uses filtration, electrolysis and UV generator. Ballast water treatment systems could be in failure or under repair. That was confirmed and mathematically verified in the second part of the study. Reliability of the systems was calculated and total reliability value was 0.7 for each of the two computing systems individually, where one is redundant. New invented volumetric sensors should indirectly automatically report malfunctions through wireless and wire communications and that was suggested and ascertained in this paper.