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SINTEF Ocean Maritime Transport

Maritime Transport

Atmospheric pollution is the biggest challenge facing the maritime sector. SINTEF Ocean contributes its expertise, test facilities and analytical tools to the development of safe, environmentally friendly solution for shipping. In the future, we will put even more effort into ship concept analysis, vessel performance, Big Data, autonomous ships and the Zero MARITIME Research Centre for Environmentally Friendly Energy.

Arne Fredheim
Research Director
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Expertise

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Maritime Energy Systems

Maritime Transportation Systems

Navigation, positioning and localization

Seakeeping and manouvering

Ship resistance, Propulsion and Hull Design

SmartSeas

Laboratories

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Energy and Machinery Laboratory

The laboratory is amongst the best equipped independent engine laboratories in Scandinavia. Well developed installations with highly specialized experimental equipment, instrumentation and dataacquisition systems, and an experienced staff are crucial assets in provision of professional customized support to our clients.

Marine Structures Laboratory

The main activities in the laboratory for marine structures are the testing of structures, structural components and materials. Typical problems involve fatigue testing, ultimate strength and collapse testing. Experimental work is often combined with analytical or numerical analysis.

Cavitation Tunnel

The cavitation tunnel is used to investigate the hydrodynamic performance of different type of ship hulls, propulsors and other hydrodynamic objects. Propeller induced pressure fluctuations and noise as well as cavitation are investigated by means of measurements and high speed video observation. Propeller shaft and single propeller blade forces and moments can be measured using advanced in-house developed miniaturized instrumentation, in addition to standard thrust and torque measurements.

Ocean Laboratory

The Ocean Basin Laboratory is used for basic as well as applied research on marine structures and operations. A total environmental simulation including wind, waves and current offers a unique possibility for testing of models in realistic conditions. With a depth of 10 metres and a water surface of 50x80m the Ocean Basin Laboratory is an excellent tool for investigation of existing or future challenges within marine technology.

Model Production

The models to be tested in the hydrodynamic laboratories at SINTEF Ocean are manufactured in our engineering workshop. In production of both hull- and propeller models, high accuracy and use of skilled experienced people are of the utmost importance.

Towing Tank

The main activity of the towing tanks is related to investigation of hydrodynamic performance of ships. This includes resistance, propulsion, seakeeping in head and following seas, and directional stability tests with free running models. The tanks are equipped with two carriages: One for towing up to 10 m/s for traditional calm water tests and a second carriage for seakeeping tests and other tests performed with fixed or free-running models.
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Projects

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RACE Digital Cage

28 April 2020

A digital platform for monitoring and visualisation of aquaculture net cages and fish distribution based on sensors, real-time simulations and data assimilation (theoretical, mathematical models combined with observations).

Torsion

04 June 2020

Torsion issues during handling of cables, flexible pipes and umbilicals.

Maritime Data Space (MDS)

18 May 2020

Maritime Data Space (MDS) project will develop an open maritime data exchange and sharing ecosystem with advanced and distributed data governance mechanisms.
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News

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Model testing opens new possibilities

20 November 2020

As a part of the project “Design and Verification of Large Floating Coastal Structures” (LFCS), a new model test was recently conducted in the Ocean Basin Laboratory.

A Roadmap for Smart and Autonomous Sea Transport Systems

05 November 2020

A new Roadmap for Smart and Autonomous Sea Transport Systems was unveiled at the SMI Forum in Singapore on October 22nd, by Senior Minister of State for Transport and Foreign Affairs, Mr. Chee Hong Tat, and the Ambassador of Norway to Singapore, Ms. Anita Nergaard.

SINTEF makes important contributions to autonomous maritime transport

18 February 2020

The 21st of January marked the start of the four-year project AUTOSHIP. This self-propelled vessel research project is supported by EU's Horizon 2020 research programme. The project has a frame of more than 20 million euros, which is one of the largest allocations given to Norwegian players ever.
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