The objective of the article is to identify support areas under the European Fisheries Fund (EFF) with a particular focus on ecological measures protecting the marine environment. The introduction provides general information about the EFF and EU measures for fisheries and maritime policy. The first part of the paper discusses the support areas of the Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance established in 1992, with a focus on its ecological activity. The second part of the paper concerns the activity of the European Fisheries Fund within the financial strategy for the period 2007–2013 with reference to the priority axes implemented under the sectoral operational programme in Poland. Such an approach is quite logical, as these priorities and measures are compatible across EU member countries. The general conclusion from the analysis is as follows: structural orientation of measures and enhancement of support for a balanced water environment, protection of flora and fauna, reasonable exploitation of resources, and ecology as the top priority

The objective of the paper is to present ecological measures for marine environment protection financed by the EU within Euroregional structures. For this purpose the paper is divided into two parts. The first part concerns the Euroregions’ position and mission based on the origin of Euroregion Baltic and its special features. The second part concerns selected measures aimed to protect marine environment financed from the EU assistance funds. The primary conclusion is as follows: Euroregional structures were crucial as regards the acquisition of development funds while the EU’s involvement in ecological development and the specific features of Euroregions have led to the implementation of ecological measures. They have directly or indirectly contributed to marine environment protection

This paper concerns two agencies which directly or indirectly pursue the goals and perform the tasks set by the European Union in terms of protecting the marine environment. They are both part of the EU agency system established to decentralise measures, integrate various groups of interests, prepare development strategies and prevent bad practices. The Community Fisheries Control Agency (CFCA) harmonises legal regulations and the Common Fisheries Policy, which improves maritime safety. The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) fosters this safety by promoting the implementation of ship safety standards, investigating shipping disasters, and preventing harmful waste discharges from ships including oil spills that would pollute inshore and sea waters, destroying marine flora and fauna

The article presents problems of end-of-life vessels and actions undertaken at the European Union level, concerning dismantling of the ships. The introduction outlines the problem, then appears a review of regulations in the scope of ship dismantling, in particular European Community law on waste. Next part of this article discusses two documents, which are relevant to the policy pursued in the EU aimed at improving ship dismantling conditions

Ľarticle présente le problème des niveaux élevés de bruit aux postes de travail des opérateurs de machines de terrassement et le problème du bruit émis par ces machines dans le milieu environnant. Les informations de base sur les risques concernat le bruit et les méthodes de lutte contre le bruit sont présentées. Les mesures de niveau sonore équivalent ont été effectuées à la position des opérateurs de machines comme p.ex. les excavateurs, marteaux pneumatiques, scies et les autres machines qui sont utilisées à ľextérieur. Les résultats des mesures sont comparées avec les règlements et les normes qui déterminent les niveaux de bruit acceptés. Les méthodes de la réduction de ľimpact négatif du bruit sur les opérateurs de ces machines et leur environnement sont aussi présentées

W artykule przedstawione są różnice w składzie kwasowo-tłuszczowym olejów roślinnych i zwierzęcych. Badania eksperymentalne wykazały wpływ tego składu na parametry pracy silnika. Zapropnowano zastoso-wanie wskaźnika nienasycenia dla całkowej charakterystyki składu paliw roślinnych. Wykazano, że biodiesel o wysokim indeksie nienasycenia (większym udziale kwasów nienasyconych) charakteryzuje się lepszymi parametrami ekonomiczności. Wnioskuje się o możliwości otrzymywania paliw pochodzenia roślinnego z zadanymi właściwościami przy wyborze roślin z odpowiednim składem kwasowo-tłuszczowym po wpro-wadzeniu selekcji lub zmian genetycznych

In this paper the influence of carbon dioxide capture installation (CCS installation) on the efficiency of a coal power plant is presented. The power demand for the membrane separation and the efficiency losses of the power plant (14.04 percentage points) after implementation of the CCS installation is shown. A method for reducing these losses through integration of the CCS installation with the power plant is proposed. The main aims of the integration are heat exchange between media and decrease of the CO2 temperature before compression. Implementing of this process can result in a significant reduction of the efficiency loss by around 7 percentage points. The influence of the integration on the unit sale price of electricity as well as on the cost of CO2 avoided emission was also determined. The influence of the fuel cost , investment cost of the CCS installation on the limit sale price of electricity and CO2 avoided emission cost was analyzed in details

Design guidelines are presented for predicting added wave resistance useful at the early stage of designing ro-ro ferries. The guidelines were prepared on the basis of regression analysis of model values of added wave resistance. The model values were calculated by means of 448 ferry shape variants assuming conventional waving parameters and ferry movement parameters. Such approach permitted the replacement of a compli-cated numerical model with a simple regression model based on basic design parameters

International Maritime Organization is looking forward for modern methods of learning in marine field. The training of seafarers may be allowed by distance learning and e-learning methods in accordance with the standards of training and assessment set in STCW convention. For that purpose the web based course for competences related to the LRC certificate and learning management system, that is able to support any GMDSS E-learning material, are being developed. This is the aim of European Leonardo da Vinci project numbered: 142173-LPP-1-2008-1-SI-LEONARDO-LMP (2008–2010) and titled: E-Learning system for GMDSS VET. The article presents the results of current works

The paper presents results of unsteady numerical analysis of propeller-rudder system. For the calculations the Ansys Fluent solver was employed. The governing equations are RANSE. The results of computed forces, pathlines and pressure distribution on propeller and rudder are given as a function of rudder deflection angle. Initial investigations point to a number of very interesting effects, e.g. the formation on the rudder for small angle of deflection, the resulting force coincident with the direction of ship speed moving ahead. For that reason the resulting force may be considered as an additional component of the thrust force. Presented analysis may be employed during design of ships which are expected to attain good manoeuvring performance (e.g. LNG carriers) or ships which are designed with diesel-electric propulsion installation where there is a possibility to recover energy from inertia when slowing down

This article verifies a hypothesis about Poissonian character of vessel traffic stream, disturbing ferry traffic. Based on data from an AIS system, the probability distribution of time between traversing a line of ferry crossing by successive vessels of traffic stream has been determined. Data for four ferry routes in the southern Baltic Sea, have been considered. To test the hypothesis about the form of distribution, the chi square Pearson test has been use

The article presents issues connected with association of radar and AIS targets in the process of integration of this two systems. Theoretical analysis of the problem has been carried out. IMO requirements has been depicted and included in three association criteria proposed, which sequentially implemented in the algorithm allow firm association of radar and AIS targets. The general condition for association has been presented and it has been subsequently detailed for each criterion. As the basic test association of the position has been taken and it can be supplemented by association of movement vector and history of association in the furtherer steps. In each case the association gate has been defined. The sizes of gates, which allow to consider chosen criterion as fulfilled has been determined by analysis. The presented association algorithms may be used as the first step of radar–AIS integration to lead to multisensory vector fusion in the consecutive steps

In the article authors present the structure of recourses management system in local government on example of one of the Varsovian district. Recourses are understanding as building and land (cadastral) data enriched by different accessible materials. The methodology of system construction, range of data as well as functions realized by the system were introduced. The architecture of a system is (with some modifications) the classical solution characteristic for systems of GIS type. Such a system is designed to support of economic, social and administrative decision making as well as is a ground to bring cadastral system into effect

The article presents the author’s method of scale determining of cartographical chart. The worked out method permits on scale defining on the base on resolution of source imagery, precision of location and internal geometry of situational details as well as the defining of interpretation aim. In present study authors introduce a new attitude to cartographical study of seaports. It relies on very high resolution imageries using to create a orthophotomap and regards it as a final product instead of product attending to updating other maps

The share of start-up wear in total wear of an automobile engine is large, and in the analysed case it exceeded 40%. The amount of start-up wear of engine elements strongly depends on start-up temperature: the lower temperature, the larger wear. Hence the particular significance of so-called cold start-ups, which most often are first starts of an engine on a given day. The temperature of the first start-up in ungaraged vehicles is the same as the temperature of the surroundings, and it depends on the season. This article analyses changes in mean intensity of wear of a truck engine cylinder liner associated with different temperatures of first start-up in different seasons. In the analysed case, the intensity of wear in winter was 16% higher than in the summer. Also discussed are the possible consequences of the above changes for wear intensities determined in measurements