Environmental Ⅱ: Solutions Integrated Liquid Discharge System for Waste Disposal on Future Surface Combatants

摘要

National and international regulations restrict the over- board discharge of ship-generated liquid waste. During the twenty-first century, discharges of untreated sewage, graywater, and oily wastes will be further restricted in many littoral areas throughout the world. Future surface combatants will operate primarily in these littoral areas. Consequently, the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAV- SEA) SEA 03R24 initiated a research and development (RDT&E) program to provide future United States (U.S.) navy surface combatants with the capability to destroy liquid wastes aboard ship, maximizing shore independence and minimizing waste off-load costs in foreign and domes- tic ports.