Control Of Robot Arm With Sterilization System For Ballast Water

The inadvertent transfer of harmful aquatic organisms and pathogens in the ballast water of ships has been determined to have caused a significant adverse impact to many of the world's coastal regions. Loading and discharge of ballast water is an essential part of a ship's operation, and is fundamental to maintaining safe operations under different conditions of load. However, large vessels require thousands of tonnes of water to ensure stability and manoeuvrability, and the environmental impacts of this can be considerable. These impacts result from the fact that the ballast water can contain hundreds of different species, many of which can have serious ecological, economic and public health effects if transferred to regions where they are not native. The recognition of these effects has made ballast management increasingly important for protection of the marine environment. As a means to prevent, we developed a system using high voltage-high frequency pulsed power, so called arc discharge, when this discharge happens, the electrodes are oxidized and consumed. Regarding this point, we wanted to apply robot arm to supply continuous electrode when it consumed by arc discharge.