Shipping and the maritime industry is MARINTEK’s traditional markets and over the years a long range of services have been developed. Today’s focus is very much on cost and energy efficiency, environment and safety as well as on operations under difficult conditions. Our expertise is put to use in national and international research projects, industrial projects as well as by authorities and standards organisations.
Energy and environment
The keen interest in reducing GHG emissions and other environmental impacts from ships is a key element in our research. MARINTEK led the consortium that developed IMO’s second GHG study in 2009 and has since followed up this work with research on engines, hulls and operational issues. We also study other emissions to air, such as NOx, SOx, VOC and PM.
- Low emission diesel and gas engine technology and exhaust gas cleaning
- LNG as fuel
- Energy analysis and economization
- Wash in congested waters and harbours
- Optimization of hull and propulsion systems
Ship performance and response
Advanced simulation and laboratory tools allow MARINTEK to be in the forefront in this area. We also make use of hybrid approaches, combining simulations and scale tests.
- Wave and slamming impact loads and responses
- Optimization of hull and propulsion systems
- Hydroelastic effects, modelling and testing
- Manoeuvring in narrow and shallow waters
- Comfort, motion and acceleration
- Operational criteria and limitations
Technical operations and maintenance
Efficient maintenance is an ever increasing challenge for ships. More and more complex systems on board, reduced and less experienced crews and increasing availability demands put maintenance at the forefront of the operators’ attention. This is one of the traditional MARINTEK areas, including CBM, maintenance strategies and integrated information processing tools.
- Technical performance indexing
- Condition monitoring, maintenance optimization and strategies
- Lifetime extension of facilities
- Cavitation, excitation forces and noise
- Hull monitoring systems
Effective and safe operations
Shipping is not risk free and ensuring the safety of persons, environment and systems has been a major factor in the business since before the first version of the SOLAS convention in 1914. With the advent of the offshore oil and gas industry, new risks and damage potentials have led to a even higher focus on these issues. However, safety needs to be integrated in effective operational strategies that gives a best possible safety level while still providing cost effective services.
- Dynamic risk assessment, emergency management systems
- Underwater vehicles and submarine operations
- Shipping KPI, performance measurement and improvement
- Ship/shore and ship/ship telecommunication
- Monitoring and control systems design and integration
- Simulators for decision support, collaboration, remote piloting and training
- Weather routing and optimization of sailing patterns
- Ship routing and scheduling
Infrastructure, transport systems and logistics
Ship and maritime operations are dependent on an international and large scale infrastructure, provided by private and public organisations. Ships are also themselves part of supply chains and transport systems. The system perspective has always been important in MARINTEK.
- LNG distribution systems
- Telecommunication and traffic monitoring systems
- Search and rescue services optimization
- Fleet size and mix analysis
- Transport system optimizations and logistics analysis
- Arctic operations, infrastructure and logistics
Laboratory and field services
MARINTEK is world renowned for its extensive laboratory facilities. We believe that not only is the laboratory necessary for many of our direct services, but they do provide the practical fundament on which our theoretical activities also must be established.
- Engine testing and qualifications, gas analysis, power, vibration etc.
- Technical measurements on power systems, structures, dynamic systems and processes
- Emissions measurement, quantification and documentation (VOC, CO2, NOx, SOx)
- Sea trials, speed/power, manoeuvring and seakeeping tests
- Annex 9 tests according to the High Speed Code
- Telecommunication system performance and optimization
