Loading software for ships (for liquid cargos)
TANKER / FPSO
Coastdesign Norway AS
Most important for tankers is the capability to perform direct damage stability check for any loading condition (ref. the Paris Memorandum on Port State Control, which will start a concentrated inspection campaign on the 1st September through to the 30th November 2010 to verify that tanker operators are complying with damage stability regulation).
In addition to being a powerful stability and strength analysis, Autoload tanker version has a built in database of liquid commodities where user can store information on characteristics of cargoes likely to be carried on board the vessel.
This data is used by the program for precise calculations of cargo quantities at observed temperatures.
In the simple intuitive form, the user can input basic properties of crude oil and generalized petroleum products such as API gravity or density at the standard API, ISO or random temperature.
The facility exists to input similar characteristics for non-petroleum chemicals. Unlike other software that relies on the pre-calculated tables, Autoload uses the original ASTM formulae for calculations of specific gravity and volume correction factors of oil and petroleum products at observed temperatures.
