𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗩𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘀

Last week Shipsonic Director, Chiel de Wit, and Business Development Officer, Anne Marie van Swinderen, attended PortPIC by VB conferences COMPIT HullPIC HIPER PortPIC. PortPIC is an interesting institution. A conference where all participants attend all the sessions, with very active participation and good discussions. But the most exciting is this: no promotory, self-inflating presentations. You barely are allowed to put your logo on your slide-show. All this is managed with passion (and strictness) by Volker Bertram, who I think is the one who had the idea for this.

Basically some 60 super-motivated people in one room, listening to a total of 20+ papers over two days. 

Our own Anne Marie presented her paper ‘Controlling Biofouling on Stationary Vessels’. The essence of the paper is this: the biofouling solutions that are currently in use are less effective on stationary vessels. In case of box-coolers it is a problem when the engine is cold and the thermosiphon working stops. Laying up with the engine running is not the problem, being stationary or moving with engine off 𝗶𝘀 the problem. In case of hulls, across practically all coatings (possibly apart from the most virulently poisonous ones) a stationary vessel will grow over, unless it is just laying still for a very short time.

For ultrasonic anti-fouling the working principle is completely different. It works as well on stationary as moving vessels. The working is as effective with a cold engine as with an engine in operation.

Please find attached the article text here: https://lnkd.in/ebef9zxZ as well as the presentation visuals here: https://lnkd.in/eJ_XuzC6

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