Abstract:
Provided a LNG ship that is manufactured in a short construction period by assembling a LNG tank on land and mounting the LNG tank in a hold of the ship.A cold insulator and a membrane are affixed on an inner side of a prismatic tank to fabricate a LNG tank, which is mounted in a hold having a double hull structure. In order to prevent the prismatic tank from deforming at the time of the mounting, strength members are welded to an outer surface of the prismatic tank before a thermal insulation work for the purpose of sufficient reinforcement. After the tank is mounted in the hold, the strength members of the prismatic tank are coupled to the inner hull of the ship to integrate the LNG tank and the hull, so that the weight of a liquid cargo is supported by the prismatic tank and the hull together.
Abstract:
Provided is a LNG storage tank of a membrane type mounted on a LNG-FPSO or a LNG carrier, wherein volumetric efficiency is high and sloshing does not easily occur at the time of heavy weather. In order to solve this problem, a membrane-type tank is composed of a main tank under a deck and a box-shaped head tank on the deck. These main and head tanks communicate with each other via a hole opened in the deck to form one tank. The main tank is formed by forming a heat insulation layer on inner sides of a double bottom and left and right longitudinal bulkheads and further by liquid-tightly covering the top by a membrane of Invar or the like. Similarly, the head tank also has a heat insulation layer and a membrane provided on its inner surface.
Abstract:
An improved method and system for identifying individual users accessing a web site. A web site server is able to identify distinct users by using a unique identifier associated with each client computer system requesting access to the web site. The unique identifier comprises an Internet address, such as an Internet Protocol (IP) address, and a time value associated with each client computer system requesting access to the web site. On starting up a web browser, an application program or browser plug-in may synchronize the internal clock included with the client computer system with a global time standard. The synchronized time value may be based on an event associated with the client computer system, such as the start of a web browser. A web site server may determine the uniqueness of the client computer system by comparing unique identifier records of users accessing the web site. A user may be identified as distinct if no matching record exists in the database. Multiple client computer systems having a common Internet address may be identified by using this method. Users privacy is also protected as the unique identifiers are erased when the client computer system's user exits the web browser or powers down the computer.
Abstract:
An LNG tanker is provided which can have larger tank capacity for its hull size, be easily built, and reduce the sloshing in membrane type tanks during a heavy weather. The foremost LNG tank is made in a spherical independent type (24), and each of subsequent tanks is made in membrane type (26). The membrane type of tank has heat insulating material on the inner shell of a double hull with its surface covered by membranes. During the voyage, the liquid cargo (LNG) in the spherical independent type tank is transferred to membrane type of tanks, thereby to compensate LNG losses caused by generation of boil-off gas in the membrane type tanks.
Abstract:
An ore/coal carrier is provided with piping passages 42 of watertight structure and of substantially rectangular cross section. The passage is located between longitudinal bulkheads 32 and cargo hatches 38, and extends within an upper portion of central cargo oil tanks 34. Two of cargo oil delivery pipes 50 leading from a pump room to a shore connection 48 at midship portion of a hull are passed through a starboard piping passage, and the remaining one is passed through a port passage. The starboard passage extends up to the central portion of the hull, however, the port one extends close up to a bow, and an inert gas pipe 58 is passed through in the port passage.
Abstract:
A system and method for transmitting and receiving data in a mobile communications network. The system includes one or more mobile station for transmitting data in a mobile digital network. The mobile stations are configured to act as buffer/repeaters by storing and forwarding data signals until they are received by a designated destination station. The mobile stations include an antenna, a transceiver coupled to the antenna, a processor coupled to the transceiver, a data storage memory coupled to the processor, and a power supply. The processor may be configured to cause the transceiver to broadcast interrogation signals to determine whether other mobile or base stations are present for store-forwarding.
Abstract:
A method and system for negotiating improved terms for a product being purchased over the Internet. Once a purchaser has made a decision to buy a specific product over the Internet, the purchaser may use the services of a personal negotiating broker-agent program to beat the best available purchase transaction within a specifiable time window. The personal broker-agent program may detect an issuance of a commitment to purchase over the Internet by a purchaser. The personal broker-agent program may then make an offer to the purchaser the option of waiting a predetermined amount of time while the broker agent searches for improved items. On acceptance of the option by the purchaser, the personal broker-agent program may conduct an auction and/or search the Internet for a better deal and may evaluate the auction and/or search responses to determine the best deal. The personal broker-agent program may then execute the best deal. If the purchaser elects not to accept the option from the personal broker-agent program, then the purchaser may execute the commitment to purchase transaction without delay.
Abstract:
An oil tanker is provided with a cargo oil delivery pipe for connecting a cargo oil pump in a pump room arranged in front of an engine room in a rear portion of a hull to a shore connection provided nearly in a central portion on the upper deck of the hull, and a cargo suction pipe for connecting the cargo oil pump to a cargo oil tank. The cargo oil delivery pipe is passed through a cargo tank area below the upper deck of the hull and is extended forward from the pump room and is passed through the upper deck and is connected to a cross pipe and is coupled to the shore connection.
Abstract:
An improved method and system for identifying individual users accessing a web site. A web site server is able to identify distinct users by using a unique identifier associated with each client computer system requesting access to the web site. The unique identifier comprises an Internet address, such as an Internet Protocol (IP) address, and a time value associated with each client computer system requesting access to the web site. On starting up a web browser, an application program or browser plug-in may synchronize the internal clock included with the client computer system with a global time standard. The synchronized time value may be based on an event associated with the client computer system, such as the start of a web browser. A web site server may determine the uniqueness of the client computer system by comparing unique identifier records of users accessing the web site. A user may be identified as distinct if no matching record exists in the database. Multiple client computer systems having a common Internet address may be identified by using this method. Users privacy is also protected as the unique identifiers are erased when the client computer system's user exits the web browser or powers down the computer.
Abstract:
A system for negotiating logistics and insurance transactions may include interfaces configured to connect logistics providers, insurance providers, and emarketplaces. An agent software module may be configured to search the Internet for pricing information that is used to maintain a current database of pricing and terms. The emarketplaces may be configured to allow purchasers to enter descriptions of items to be shipped and insured. The system may then search the current database to provide the purchaser with a quote for freight and insurance services in real time.