AIRCOAT
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AIRCOAT
  • About us
  • Project
  • Salvinia Effect
  • Antifouling
  • Drag reduction
  • Noise pollution
  • Resources

AIRCOAT

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What is AIRCOAT?

AIRCOAT stands for AIR-induced friction reducing ship COATing.
AIRCOAT is a Horizon 2020 EU funded project promoting a passive air lubrication technology with the potential to revolutionise the ship-coating sector.

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REDUCING
EMISSIONS

REDUCING FRICTIONAL
RESISTANCE

REDUCING
BIOFOULING

REDUCING NOISE
POLLUTION

Malta field test and biofouling results

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Research vessel experiment in Malta 2021

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Container ship experiment in Romania 2022

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AIRCOAT | Final Event 2022

AIRCOAT air layer:
positive environmental impacts

AIRCOAT technology is aiming to reduce energy consumption and ship emissions, as defined by the EU Green Deal looking to reduce gas emission for the ship industry by 40% by 2030.

The air barrier created by the AIRCOAT foil further will limit the attachment of fouling and consequent invasive species translocation.

It aims also to avoid the release of biocide substances of underlying coatings to the water and mitigate the radiation of ship noise, something that has detrimental effects on marine life such as cetaceans.

The project will help to understand and validate environmentally friendly initiatives within the maritime industry, paving the way for further marine research initiatives that reduce our footprint in the oceans.

About the project
Economic and environmental potential
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The concept

AIRCOAT technology is bio-inspired by the Salvinia effect.
The naturally occurring Salvinia effect allows the plant floating fern to breath under water by maintaining a permanent layer of air around it. The AIRCOAT project intends to implement this effect on a self-adhesive foil system. It is therefore a prime example of a biomimetic application where technology learns from nature.

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Research experiments

AIRCOAT is developing small and large scale experiments to optimise the surface characteristics of AIRCOAT technology. Discover how we are working and testing the different materials and calculation techniques in order to develop the AIRCOAT foil.

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CONSORTIUM PARTNERS

Coordinated by the Fraunhofer Center for Maritime Logistics and Services CML and scientifically managed by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
(which pioneered the air-coating technology and demonstrated initial prototypes),
AIRCOAT brings together a total of ten partners from six European countries.

CONSORTIUM PARTNERS

Coordinated by the Fraunhofer Center for Maritime Logistics and Services CML and scientifically managed by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (which pioneered the air-coating technology and demonstrated initial prototypes), AIRCOAT brings together a total of ten partners from six European countries.

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The AIRCOAT project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N°764553.

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