As the ferry industry adopts alternative fuels, safety strategies must evolve to match new technologies. At next week’s Marine Log’s FERRIES Conference, Whitney Mantooth, senior engineer I, Technology Americas at ABS, will
Whitney Mantooth.
As the ferry industry adopts alternative fuels, safety strategies must evolve to match new technologies. At next week’s Marine Log’s FERRIES Conference, Whitney Mantooth, senior engineer I, Technology Americas at ABS, will discuss how some fules, including methanol, have unique risks that are reshaping emergency evacuation procedures. The event takes place November 4-5 in Jersey City, N.J., just across from the Manhattan skyline.
Methanol offers environmental benefits but presents safety challenges, including invisible flames and the release of toxic vapors that can complicate early detection and safe evacuation. Mantooth’s presentation, “Innovations in Emergency Evacuation Procedures: Addressing Challenges with Alternative Fuels,” examines how passenger evacuation modeling, human factors engineering, and function-based digital twins can help address these issues.
These tools enable real-time simulation of vessel environments, integrating inputs from sensors, CCTV and fire systems to support evacuation modeling and risk
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