Key Laboratory of Environmental Protection Technology on Water Transport, Ministry of Transport, National Engineering Research Center of Port Hydraulic Construction Technology, Tianjin Research Institute for Water Transport Engineering, M.O.T., Tianjin 300456, China.
Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration of the People's Republic of China, Shanghai 200086, China.
Sensors (Basel). 2022 Jul 12;22(14):5198. doi: 10.3390/s22145198.
The ship exhaust sniffing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system can be applied to monitor vessel emissions in emission control areas (ECAs) to improve the efficiency of maritime law enforcement and reduce ship pollution. To solve the problems of large size, heavy weight and high cost of ship exhaust sniffing sensors, in this paper, a unique diffused mini-sniffing sensor was designed, which provides a low-cost, lightweight, and highly adaptable solution for ship exhaust sniffing UAV. To verify the measurement accuracy of the system, a large number of on-site tests were performed based in the mouth of the Yangtze River, and some cases of violation of the fuel sulfur content (FSC) were verified and punished. Maritime law enforcement officers boarded the ship to take oil samples from eight suspected ships and sent them to the laboratory for testing. The results showed that the FSCs of the eight ships in chemical inspection were all greater than the regulatory limit 0.5% (m/m) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO). The system enables authorities to monitor emissions using rotary UAVs equipped with diffused mini-sniffing sensors to measure the FSC of navigating ships, which couple hardware and operational software with a dedicated lab service to produce highly reliable measurement results. The system offers an effective tool for screening vessel compliance.
船舶尾气嗅探无人机（UAV）系统可用于监测排放控制区（ECA）内的船舶排放，以提高海洋执法效率，减少船舶污染。为了解决船舶尾气嗅探传感器体积大、重量重、成本高的问题，本文设计了一种独特的扩散式迷你嗅探传感器，为船舶尾气嗅探 UAV 提供了一种低成本、重量轻、高度适应的解决方案。为了验证系统的测量精度，在长江口进行了大量现场测试，并对一些违反燃油含硫量（FSC）的情况进行了验证和处罚。海事执法人员登上八艘可疑船舶取油样，并送往实验室进行检测。结果表明，八艘受化学检查的船舶的 FSCs 均大于国际海事组织（IMO）规定的 0.5%（m/m）的监管限值。该系统使当局能够使用配备扩散式迷你嗅探传感器的旋转式 UAV 监测排放，以测量航行船舶的 FSC，将硬件和操作软件与专用实验室服务相结合，以产生高度可靠的测量结果。该系统为筛选船舶合规性提供了有效工具。
