The Pollution of Ships' Ballast Water to the Marine Environment and Countermeasures

DOI

10.2991/icmmct-16.2016.31How to use a DOI?

Keywords

ballast water; marine environment; ballast water exchange; heating-electrolysis

Abstract

as the integration of the world economy, the amount of global trade has increased. 80% of the trade commodities are transported by sea. A large number of ships whose ballast water cause great damage to the marine environment are sailing in the ocean every year. Ship’s ballast water has become an important way for microorganisms transmitting all over the world. The pollution to the marine environment which is caused by ship’s ballast water and the methods how to deal with ship’ ballast water will be discussed in this paper.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Jingguo Yuan
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TI  - The Pollution of Ships' Ballast Water to the Marine Environment and Countermeasures
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 4th International Conference on Machinery, Materials and Computing Technology
PB  - Atlantis Press
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