CLEANSHIP
Prevention and detection of fouling on ship hulls
| Coordinatore | BRUNEL UNIVERSITY
Organization address
address: Kingston Lane contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | United Kingdom [UK] |
| Totale costo | 1˙358˙558 € |
| EC contributo | 1˙044˙000 € |
| Programma | FP7-SME
Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs |
| Code Call | FP7-SME-2012 |
| Funding Scheme | BSG-SME |
| Anno di inizio | 2012 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2012-09-01 - 2014-08-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
BRUNEL UNIVERSITY
Organization address
address: Kingston Lane contact info |
UK (UXBRIDGE) | coordinator | 82˙636.00 |
| 2 |
INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE LIMITED - INNOTECUK
Organization address
address: HILDERSHAM ROAD NORTH WING THE OLD LIVERY contact info |
UK (CAMBRIDGE) | participant | 237˙142.00 |
| 3 |
SOFCHEM SARL
Organization address
address: RUE DU GUE 9 contact info |
FR (REUIL MALMAISON) | participant | 216˙338.00 |
| 4 |
WRS MARINE INSPECTIONS AND SERVICES BV
Organization address
address: BOELEWERF 1 D E contact info |
NL (RIDDERKERK) | participant | 207˙711.00 |
| 5 | ENKON ENDUSTRIYEL KONTROL KAYNAK SANAYI VE TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI | TR | participant | 198˙085.00 |
| 6 |
LLOYD'S REGISTER EMEA
Organization address
address: FENCHURCH STREET 71 contact info |
UK (LONDON) | participant | 41˙663.00 |
| 7 |
KENTRO EREVNAS TECHNOLOGIAS KAI ANAPTYXIS THESSALIAS
Organization address
address: TECHNOLOGIKO PARKO A VIPE contact info |
EL (VOLOS) | participant | 35˙897.00 |
| 8 |
FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION
Organization address
address: PARQUE TECNOLOGICO DE MIRAMON PASEO MIKELETEGI 2 contact info |
ES (DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN) | participant | 24˙528.00 |
| 9 |
ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS
Organization address
address: CHARILAOU THERMI ROAD 6 KM contact info |
EL (THERMI THESSALONIKI) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'Biofouling is the adhesion of biological materials to hard surfaces, such as ship hulls, in a marine environment and it can commence within seconds of the immersion of a ship’s hull in the sea. After 6 months without protection against marine fouling deposits, biofouling growth increases the drag on a hull so much as to cause a ship to use up to 40% more fuel and correspondingly to produce 40% more CO2 emissions. The marine industry spends $6 billion (USD) worldwide in the prevention or removal of marine fouling using a variety of cleaning tools in dock, yet fouling still costs the world shipping industry, involving 98,000 vessels of size exceeding 100 GT, $8 billion on extra fuel and produces 70 million tons of additional CO2. There are also serious health and safety issues associated with the widespread use of biocidal antifouling coatings which harm marine life and enter the food chain. Furthermore new and experimental non-biocidal antifouling coatings are only partly effective at sea and completely ineffective in port.
Clearly existing methods of fouling prevention and removal are in urgent need of improvement. The CLEANSHIP project proposes a novel, harmless and cost effective solution for fouling prevention without the need for taking a ship out of service.
The solution is to deploy long range ultrasonic plate waves travelling throughout an entire ship hull below the water line in two ways (i) The use of leaky (SV mode) continuous waves to prevent or slow down the accumulation of fouling by driving biomolecules away from the hull (ii) Continuous monitoring of the attenuation changes of pulsed waves caused by the growth of fouling in its the early stages, to allow earlier and cheaper removal.
The return on the investment by the SMEs and EU in the first 4 years of commercialization will be 166:1 in the form of profits, savings on fouling prevention and treatment, fuel costs and carbon offset costs. With global take up of the new technology the savings could exceed 14.9 billion Euros per annum.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
To clean ships, the marine industry uses various invasive cleaning techniques and prevention methods that are very costly and can harm the environment. An EU initiative has designed an innovative high-tech solution for reducing fouling on ship hulls.