Recirculated hot water in sea chests

I'm afraid I haven't a clue what a 'sea chest' is...

Maybe you could describe it and then someone might have the answer?

John.

I'm curious.........

sea chest = ballast tank?

http://www.m-i-link.com/dictionary/default.asp?term=sea+chest

Thanks Uarizon and my apologies to those who didn't know what a sea chest was. I should have included a quick description in my original message.

Cheers,

TimD

http://el.erdc.usace.army.mil/zebra/zmis/zmishelp3/zm_control_handbook_sea_chest_floating_plant.htm

Oh fascinating... you learn something new everyday on CR4!!

John.

Guest,

You missed the May conference at MIT - it was the Fifth International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions.

(I believe an associate of yours presented at the Third conference)

You may want to reach out to some of the members of MIT's marine bioinvaders steering committee. Here is a link to a list of the steering committee members:

http://massbay.mit.edu/exoticspecies/steering.html

In addition, here is a link to a document (also at MIT), discussing some ballast water treatment options:

http://massbay.mit.edu/resources/pdf/ballast-treat.pdf

They discuss the use of hot water, but not steam...

Guest,

Thats a very good indeavour,

But trying to kill two birds with one stone is difficult to say the least, compromies would occur.

When I work at a shipyard I had thought about that but at that time introducing foreign speciies was not a problem at the time. (funny how one has to wait till its a problem when if proactive one could not have even had this problems)

I have thought about it Do not know how hot the water is, or what is need to repell or expell the foreign species.

I suggest to list what types of species you want to expell, and see if there is a common factor with each. And go from there. This may take more research on your part, But It's more reliable that a silver bullet that what you are asking.

The experience that I had, was manufacturing the components of a ship which included the seachest.

But one thing you can look at is material that the seachest is made from. ( a reaction to a type of material to water), and also I take it that this is for freshwater.

phoenix911

on a lighter note, make sure you have the key to the seachest before you do anything

How about gassing? A percolation of undesirable gas could be worth looking into.

cr3

If it works, please send my pebbles to the Isle of Stone Money.

A seachest is usaully flooded?

Yes sea chests are underwater and so flooded at all times.

Cheers,

Tim D.