Final Event

After 4 years of intense work, the AIRCOAT Project is organising a final event to present its research approach, developments and results.

Join us on Wednesday 16 March 2022 from 9.30 AM to 12.45 AM CET.
Considering COVID-19 restrictions, the conference will be only available ONLINE.

This event is open to everyone and free of charge.

We will have also a stand at Oceanology International from 15-17 March at Stand M652.

Agenda

09.30 am – 09.45 am | Welcome & Project Introduction

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Johannes Oeffner
Team Leader at Fraunhofer CML & Project Coordinator of AIRCOAT

09.45 am – 10.00 am | Bio-inspiration solution: from the plant to the ship

Thomas Schimmel
Professor and Director at the Institute of Applied Physics and co-founder of the Institute of Nanotechnology at KIT – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology & Scientific Coordinator of AIRCOAT

Bioinspired air-retaining surfaces underwater using the Salvinia Effect: from the biological role model to the first artificial air-retaining surfaces describing the discovery and the challenges and thrilling perspectives of a potentially game-changing technology for environmentally friendly ship coating.

10.00 am – 11.15 am | SESSION 1 – INNOVATION & RESEARCH

Session moderated by Jonathan Weisheit
Researcher Associate at Fraunhofer CML

10.00 am – 10.15 am
Innovative Structure & Protection Process

Bringing the AIRCOAT technology from the lab to the ship: from initial, small and brittle air-retaining samples in the lab on the centimeter scale to elastic foils on the kilometer scale, produced with a novel, specially developed continuous roll-to-roll process.

Stefan Walheim
Senior researcher at KIT Karlsruhe Institute

10.15 am – 10.25 am
Marina Trials & Fouling Prevention

Presenting the results of laboratory tests and field tests in Malta, including the small-scale demonstrator experiment in which half of a research vessel was coated with the AIRCOAT prototype foil.

Marina Beltri
Marine Consultant at AquaBioTech Group

10.25 am – 10.35 am
Drag Reduction – Computational Fluid Dynamics

Physics of drag reduction (DR) of super hydrophobic surfaces (SHS), influence of size/geometry of SHS on DR, and scaling using different types of modelling in Computational Fluid Dynamics.

Albert Baars
Group Leader Computational Fluid Dynamics at Hochschule Bremen City University of Applied Science

10.35 am – 10.45 am
Drag Reduction – Experiments

Presenting the vast set of hydrodynamic experiments undertaken, the challenges faced, and the solutions addressed in the project with a focus large-scale near-operational drag experiments.

Johannes Oeffner
Team Leader at Fraunhofer CML & Project Coordinator of AIRCOAT

10.45 am – 11.15 am | Q&A Session 1

11.15 am – 11.30 am | Coffee break

11.30 am – 12.40 pm | SESSION 2 – DEVELOPMENT & APPLICATION

Session moderated by Daniela Myland
Senior Project Manager at Hamburg Ship Model Basin

11.30 am – 11.45 am
Industrial Foil Production

High-level insights will be given on the production of the Aircoat foil: challenges related to the upscaling and solutions we could find.

Helene Gobry
Senior Product Manager at Avery Dennison

11.45 am – 11.50 am
Containership Demonstration

Insights of the installation of the AIRCOAT foil to a commercial vessel. Post-application monitoring plan and evaluation methodology.

Fotis Oikonomou
Senior Researcher at Danaos Shipping

11.50 am – 12.00 pm
Performance Prediction

Potential friction reduction and energy savings on an entire ship.

Nils Hagemeister
Research Associate at Fraunhofer CML

12.00 pm – 12.10 pm
Global Fleet Simulations

Microscopic drag reduction studies with macroscopic modelling provide an opportunity to assess the performance of a micro-structured surface at the global fleet level.