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Design of a Rapid Trim Adjustment Method for Icebreakers
LIAO Dongjie, LIU Chen, CHEN Shinan, FAN Qiuping
Ship & Boat    2025, 36 (05): 46-53.   DOI: 10.19423/j.cnki.31-1561/u.2024.218
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The icebreaker needs to adjust the ship's longitudinal attitude to accomplish icebreaking during missions. To accomplish the rapid longitudinal adjustment of the ship, a multi-medium method is adopted to complete the ballast/deballast process for the fore and aft tanks. The ballast process is based on a hybrid method using ballast pumps and gravity flooding, while the deballast process is based on a hybrid method using ballast pumps and air compressors. For the ship's ballast/deballast system, a network model for the longitudinal attitude adjustment is established based on the designed multi-medium ballast/deballast method, considering both the fore and aft tanks. Simulation analysis shows that compared with the pure ballast pumps, the multi-medium method increases the ballast process speed by 4% and the deballast process speed by 25.6%. The multi-medium ballast/deballast method can greatly shorten the time required for rapid longitudinal attitude adjustment for icebreakers, thereby enhancing their operation flexibility.
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