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19 March 2015 On 17-18 March a conference ‘Containers and container transportation of petrochemicals and gases. Problems, solutions, perspectives’ was held in St. Petersburg, Russia. The conference was arranged by Russian Maritime Register of Shipping. About forty leading organizations of container industry engaged in design, manufacture, testing, transportation, operation of containers were the participants of this conference. The specialists discussed various aspects of container business development: harmonization of national and international requirements, perspectives for development of container transportation of goods, the peculiarities of tank-container operation in the post-Soviet area, designing and launching of new models of containers. Inter alia, this refers to one of ambitious Russian industrial projects - invention of a tank container with a boiler of composite materials. An innovative project is implemented as a part of work flow chart ‘Development the Composite Materials Production Industry’. On the basis of latest scientific and technical achievements it is planned to design and manufacture a container of polymer composites which would be resistant to aggressive substances, chemical and petrochemical products used for container shipments and would comply with the international standards for combined transportation. Among the intended advantages of the new tank containers is the mass reduction by at least 20 per cent as compared to similar steel containers as well as performance characteristics retention when carrying aggressive substances, chemical and petrochemical products during at least 15 years depending on the type of the cargo carried. Aleksandr Fetisov, Head of Container Department, Russian Maritime Register of Shipping: "The scope of container transportation keeps steadily growing worldwide. In a number of European ports it exceeds 90 per cent of the cargo turnover. As one of the leading organizations of the transport industry, RS is striving to improve the effectiveness and safety of cargo shipping. Creation of a new tank-container with a boiler of composite materials unparalleled anywhere in the world is a perspective and much expected project at the container market. It combines the efforts of all transportation process participants – science, manufacture and operators of container traffic.” Evgeny Bogdanov, Technical Director, Spectransgarant: "Performing tasks of arrangement of the transportation of the most corrosive and aggressive products, Spectransgarant faced the problems related to protection of vessel’s internal surface against them. Despite the serious financial and technical expenses, the abundant experiments with various protective surface technologies had no adequate result. Thus, an alternative arose to create a conceptually new tank container with a vessel of composite materials. We have developed and suggested to the Russian manufacturers a technical assignment aimed at design of a container for transportation of hydrochloric acid, one of the most aggressive products. To meet the versatility condition, two more corrosive and difficult-for-transport products – phosphoric acid and caustic soda were suggested for the review. Therewith, the fundamental terms was its competitive price, because the end product cost should not exceed the average market price of a chemical container being used for the similar traffic. Upon the mutual discussion, our technical assignment was accepted for design work by the top management of Uralcryomash." Oleg Cheremnykh, Principal Designer, Uralcryomash: "Multimodal transportation of cryogenic liquids, such as hydrogen, oxygen, liquefied natural gas, have a number of advantages. Thus, rundown of product transfer minimizes its loss, and no need for the use of expensive terminals for "discharge and loading" reduces the overhead costs. At designing of new tank containers, Uralcryomash solves the tasks focused on the efficiency improvement of transportation of chemically aggressive substances, including the maintenance of product quality in the tank container during its filling, transportation and discharge; use of versatility or individuality of structural solutions for transported products similar in thermo-physical and chemical properties (oxygen-nitrogen-argon; LNG-methane; hydrogen; helium); increase of carrying capacity, ensuring high safety and security level.” Andrey Ushakov, professor, Skoltech: “Design and certification of composite tank-container requires carrying out complex experimental and analytical research on the state and behaviour of material within the structure. To adress this issue, research group of Skoltech develop mathematical models of composite materials, methodologies of FE simulation of tank-container structure with account for fabrication process pecularities, methodologies to test coupons and elements. Our research is based on implementation of accelerated design methodology ‘Accelerated Building Block Approach’ that enables to significantly reduce the volume of full-scale testing through application of verified models of material behaviour and mathematical simulation methodologies.” Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) press release |
