Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.18048/2022.04.20
Preliminary Design of a Ship for Waste Sorting from Croatian Islands
Marin Smilović
; Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, Vukovarska 58, HR-51000 Rijeka, Croatia
Roko Dejhalla
; Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, Vukovarska 58, HR-51000 Rijeka, Croatia
Abstract
In the Environmental Protection Strategy of the Republic of Croatia, waste management is defined as
a national priority, and the vision is a landfill-free concept. The backbones are recycling centers with
sorting plants where separately collected waste will be prepared for recycling. Concept of sustainable
development is a key determinant of the development of the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County (PGKC),
and the fact that permanent disposal of waste of any kind will not be possible on the islands is
particularly important for this County. Mixed municipal waste generated in PGKC should be first sorted
at the local transshipment station on the island, and then transported by road to the county center for
waste management, which is an expensive and complex process. Given that sea transport is known to
be the cheapest, one possible solution would be to place a waste sorting plant on a suitable ship which
would collect waste by sailing around the island, thus avoiding the need for each island to have its
own sorting plant. The paper presents a preliminary design of a ship for sorting waste collected from
the large islands of PGKC. The mission requirements of the ship were elaborated initially, and then a
basic design of the ship was made, accompanied by the corresponding naval architecture calculations,
general arrangement plan and outline specification.
Keywords
Croatian islands; waste management; ship for waste sorting; preliminary design
Hrčak ID:
278715
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Publication date:
24.4.2022.
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