Keywords
port planning and design; sustainability; Sarlux refinery; wave collection and analysis
Start Date
15-9-2020 8:40 AM
End Date
15-9-2020 9:00 AM
Abstract
While sustainability and sustainable development are topical issues for modern society, environmental protection and economic activities are conventionally perceived by stakeholders in industrial port as two competitive domains. This paper aims at presenting the main products of a large planning and design activity programme (Sarlux Port Master Plan) in a small industrial port. Sarlux is a society controlled by Saras Group that is one of the main independent refining operators in the Mediterranean Area. Sarlux Port hosts different workboats (e.g., pilot boats, anti-pollution vessels, tenders, dredgers, fireboats) that serve the activities of the integrated refinery and gasification plants in the Gulf of Cagliari (Italy). The aim of this plan has been to apply an engineering paradigm whereby sustainability becomes the context of the design of new structures or the OMR (operation, maintenance and repair) of existing structures. Key components of this paradigm are: 1) Stakeholder participation in a process that integrates local and scientific knowledges to build capacity and empowers stakeholders to define and meet their own needs (planner-centred participation; Michener, 1998); 2) Collection and analysis of observed and model wave data including a 20-year wave hindcasting dataset (Sulis et al., 2017), 8-year data from the offshore oceanographic buoy (RON Data Buoy Network), ADCP and pressure based wave recorder in shallow water and nearshore area; Extreme Wave Analysis to define a relationship between large wave heights and their return periods; 3) Definition of service quality in term of operational benefit from improved berth availability (harbour tranquillity), economic costs of new structures or OMR and environmental impacts; 4) Evaluation of a satisfactory service quality level based on an acceptable maximum probability of failure considered to be that out of Master Plan design conditions which places the system out of stakeholders needs. While data collection and analysis, and stakeholder experience show more severe conditions in wave energy and sediment transport, the paper shows some best mitigation and adaptation practices in Sarlux Port as to be used as examples for other small industrial ports.
Wave monitoring and extreme analysis for sustainable planning and design at Sarlux Port
While sustainability and sustainable development are topical issues for modern society, environmental protection and economic activities are conventionally perceived by stakeholders in industrial port as two competitive domains. This paper aims at presenting the main products of a large planning and design activity programme (Sarlux Port Master Plan) in a small industrial port. Sarlux is a society controlled by Saras Group that is one of the main independent refining operators in the Mediterranean Area. Sarlux Port hosts different workboats (e.g., pilot boats, anti-pollution vessels, tenders, dredgers, fireboats) that serve the activities of the integrated refinery and gasification plants in the Gulf of Cagliari (Italy). The aim of this plan has been to apply an engineering paradigm whereby sustainability becomes the context of the design of new structures or the OMR (operation, maintenance and repair) of existing structures. Key components of this paradigm are: 1) Stakeholder participation in a process that integrates local and scientific knowledges to build capacity and empowers stakeholders to define and meet their own needs (planner-centred participation; Michener, 1998); 2) Collection and analysis of observed and model wave data including a 20-year wave hindcasting dataset (Sulis et al., 2017), 8-year data from the offshore oceanographic buoy (RON Data Buoy Network), ADCP and pressure based wave recorder in shallow water and nearshore area; Extreme Wave Analysis to define a relationship between large wave heights and their return periods; 3) Definition of service quality in term of operational benefit from improved berth availability (harbour tranquillity), economic costs of new structures or OMR and environmental impacts; 4) Evaluation of a satisfactory service quality level based on an acceptable maximum probability of failure considered to be that out of Master Plan design conditions which places the system out of stakeholders needs. While data collection and analysis, and stakeholder experience show more severe conditions in wave energy and sediment transport, the paper shows some best mitigation and adaptation practices in Sarlux Port as to be used as examples for other small industrial ports.
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