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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2019
Gaztransport ET Technigaz, Saint Remy les Chevreuse, FR;
Nicolas Dupont, Saint Remy les Chevreuse, FR;
Florent Ouvrard, Saint Remy les Chevreuse, FR;
Gaztransport Et Technigaz, Saint Remy les Chevreuse, FR;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method for managing maintenance for a ship comprising a sealed and thermally insulating tank for transporting liquefied gas. The method comprises the steps consisting in determininga current filling level of the tank, determininga current state of movement of the ship, determininga current sloshing index IBi from the current filling level of the tank and the current state of movement of the ship, taking into account the position and the geometry of the tank, integratingthe determined current sloshing index IBi into a wear index IUi that takes into account a history of the sloshing indices. The wear index is then compared to a threshold in order to indicate if the tank needs to be inspected, depending on the result of the comparison.