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    An Oil Discharge Monitoring and Control System (ODMCS) is used on oil tankers to prevent pollution of the oceans from oil discharged from ballast and bilge spaces. [1] The system monitors and controls the overboard discharge of oily water mixtures by measuring oil content and flow rate, and closes the discharge valve if limits are exceeded to prevent pollution. [2] As required by MARPOL regulations, tankers over 150 GT must have an approved ODMCS to ensure oil discharges meet limits when the ship is enroute and over 50 nautical miles from land. [3]

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    An Oil Discharge Monitoring and Control System (ODMCS) is used on oil tankers to prevent pollution of the oceans from oil discharged from ballast and bilge spaces. [1] The system monitors and controls the overboard discharge of oily water mixtures by measuring oil content and flow rate, and closes the discharge valve if limits are exceeded to prevent pollution. [2] As required by MARPOL regulations, tankers over 150 GT must have an approved ODMCS to ensure oil discharges meet limits when the ship is enroute and over 50 nautical miles from land. [3]

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    An Oil Discharge Monitoring and Control System (ODMCS) is used on oil tankers to prevent pollution of the oceans from oil discharged from ballast and bilge spaces. [1] The system monitors and controls the overboard discharge of oily water mixtures by measuring oil content and flow rate, and closes the discharge valve if limits are exceeded to prevent pollution. [2] As required by MARPOL regulations, tankers over 150 GT must have an approved ODMCS to ensure oil discharges meet limits when the ship is enroute and over 50 nautical miles from land. [3]

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    An Oil Discharge Monitoring and Control System (ODMCS) is used on oil tankers to prevent pollution of the oceans from oil discharged from ballast and bilge spaces. [1] The system monitors and controls the overboard discharge of oily water mixtures by measuring oil content and flow rate, and closes the discharge valve if limits are exceeded to prevent pollution. [2] As required by MARPOL regulations, tankers over 150 GT must have an approved ODMCS to ensure oil discharges meet limits when the ship is enroute and over 50 nautical miles from land. [3]

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    OIL DISCHARGE MONITORING AND CONTROL

    SYSTEM

    Oil tankers carry different types of oil cargo in their cargo tanks and it often happens
    that after discharging the oil cargo in some port, the ship sails without any cargo to
    some other destination. In order to do so, it has to take ballast from the sea to get
    better draught and stability.

    For this reason, ballast water is taken into cargo tanks wherein generally oil cargo
    would have been carried. It is to note that the ballast water carried in cargo tanks has
    to be discharged out at sea before the next cargo loading. Therefore, Oil Discharge
    monitoring and control system (ODMCS) is used to prevent the pollution of ocean by
    oil due to the discharge from ballast and bilge spaces.

    As per MARPOL 73/78 Annex I, all the oil tankers of 150 GT and above must have
    an approved Oil Discharge Monitoring System. The system must have provision to
    work in manual operating mode if the auto system is not working.

    Main Parts of ODMCS

    An ODMCS consists essentially of four systems:

    1. An Oil content meter: The oil content meter is used to analyze the content of oil
    in the water that is to be discharged overboard. This oil is expressed in parts per
    million (PPM).

    2. A flow meter: The flow rate of the oily water to be discharged is measured at the
    discharge pipe.

    3. A computing unit: A computing unit calculates the oil discharge in litres/nautical


    miles and the total quantity, along with date and time identification.

    4. An overboard valve control system: The auto control valve is installed at the
    overboard so that it must close and stop the discharge when permissible limit has
    been reached.

    Working

    The oily mixture is pumped out to the sea through ODMCS by a pump. A sampler
    probe and a flow meter sensor is connected at the discharge pipe, before the
    overboard valve, to sense the oil content and the flow of mixture.
    The data provided by the two sensors are fed in a control unit wherein it is analysed
    and the discharge valve is controlled by the same.

    If the control unit senses a rise in the ppm and flow comparing to the permissible
    value, it will shut the overboard valve and open the recirculation valve which is
    connected to slop tank of the ship.

    Regulatory requirements for oil mixture discharge from cargo space

     Tanker vessel must be enroute


     The vessel should not be in special areas.
     The tanker must be 50 nautical miles away from land.
     The instantaneous rate of discharge of oil content does not exceed 30 litres
    per nautical mile.
     The total quantity of discharge must not exceed 1/30000 of the total quantity
    of the residueformed cargo.
     The tanker must have operational and approved ODMCS.

    As per the regulation, the following inputs must be recorded by the system:

    1. Discharge rate of the pump which is discharging the oily water mixture
    overboard.
    2. The location of the ship in latitude and longitude.
    3. Date and time of the discharge.
    4. The total quantity that has been discharge overboard.
    5. Oil content of the discharged mixture in PPM.

    All the records of ODMCS must be stored on board ships for not less than 3 years.

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