CLEANSHIP

Prevention and detection of fouling on ship hulls

Coordinatore	BRUNEL UNIVERSITY    more  Organization address address: Kingston Lane city: UXBRIDGE postcode: UB83PH contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Teresa Cognome: Waller Email: send email Telefono: +44 1895 266206
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

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	BRUNEL UNIVERSITY  Organization address address: Kingston Lane city: UXBRIDGE postcode: UB83PH contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Teresa Cognome: Waller Email: send email Telefono: +44 1895 266206	UK (UXBRIDGE)	coordinator	82˙636.00
2	INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE LIMITED - INNOTECUK  Organization address address: HILDERSHAM ROAD NORTH WING THE OLD LIVERY city: CAMBRIDGE postcode: CB21 6DR contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Nico Cognome: Avdelidis Email: send email Telefono: +44 755 2697 846	UK (CAMBRIDGE)	participant	237˙142.00
3	SOFCHEM SARL  Organization address address: RUE DU GUE 9 city: REUIL MALMAISON postcode: 92500 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Pierre-Olivier Cognome: Jost Email: send email Telefono: +33 6 2043 5876 Fax: +33 1 4129 1858	FR (REUIL MALMAISON)	participant	216˙338.00
4	WRS MARINE INSPECTIONS AND SERVICES BV  Organization address address: BOELEWERF 1 D E city: RIDDERKERK postcode: 2987 VD contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Jan Cognome: Seton Email: send email Telefono: +31 180 41 04 99 Fax: +31 180 41 13 39	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 city: LONDON postcode: EC3M 4BS contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Spyros Cognome: Hirdaris Email: send email Telefono: +44 20 8423 1430	UK (LONDON)	participant	41˙663.00
7	KENTRO EREVNAS TECHNOLOGIAS KAI ANAPTYXIS THESSALIAS  Organization address address: TECHNOLOGIKO PARKO A VIPE city: VOLOS postcode: 38500 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Georgia Cognome: Pahlitzanakis Email: send email Telefono: 302421000000 Fax: 302421000000	EL (VOLOS)	participant	35˙897.00
8	FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION  Organization address address: PARQUE TECNOLOGICO DE MIRAMON PASEO MIKELETEGI 2 city: DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN postcode: 20009 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Patxi Cognome: Estensoro Email: send email Telefono: +34 686 450 643 Fax: +34 946 460 900	ES (DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN)	participant	24˙528.00
9	ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS  Organization address address: CHARILAOU THERMI ROAD 6 KM city: THERMI THESSALONIKI postcode: 57001 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Georgia Cognome: Pahlitzanakis Email: send email Telefono: 302421000000 Fax: 302421000000	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.