Floating solar energy systems Oostvoornse Lake Towards large-scale FPV Floating Photovoltaics (FPV) is a rapidly growing market. The first commercial FPV plant, which was around 170 kWp, was realised in 2008 on an irrigation pond in California. Today, more than 2 GWp is installed globally. Although the present-day solar plants have outgrown the
‘ The main challenge is to further decrease electricity costs while increasing total capacity’ MARIN believes it is our responsibility to contribute to the development of offshore renewable energy from waves, tides and wind. Back in 2010, we already established the Renewable Energy Team (RENT), a MARIN-wide team of specialists covering all the aspects needed
NOTICE TO MARINERS: BEWARE OF PARAMETRIC ROLLING IN FOLLOWING SEAS A series of incidents with exceptional container losses occurred during the winter season 2020-2021. The Joint Industry Project TopTier is initiated to address the loss of containers, with active participation of major stakeholders, to find ways to avoid similar incidents in the future. Initial results
Beaching tests for amphibious landing craft Sailing through the surf zone near a beach during an amphibious landing can be a dangerous operation, particularly because sailing with a landing craft through following breaking waves can pose challenges to the course keeping ability and/or surf riding that can lead to large uncontrolled roll and/or pitch motions.
POWER THE FUTURE | ON BOARD SS ROTTERDAM & LIVE STREAM FLOATING ENERGY PRODUCTION, STORAGE & SUPPLY FOR SUSTAINABLE SHIPPING MARIN is looking forward to bringing the maritime sector together again in 2022, with a combined BlueWeek & FPSO JIP Week set to be held in the heart of Rotterdam between June 13-17. We hope
Optimisation for an operational profile A very interesting change we have seen in the past few years is a growth in the number of optimisation projects we perform to match operational profiles. Vessels are no longer optimised for design draught and contract speed, but for the expected operational profile of the vessel. At MARIN, we
值此新春佳节来临之际，SSSRI-MARIN全体员工在此恭祝大家虎年大吉，身体健康，万事如意！春节期间，我司放假时间为1月31日至2月6日，MARIN照常营业。 All personnel of SSSRI-MARIN Joint Venture would like to wish you a happy Chinese New Year. The SSSRI-MARIN office will be closed from January 31 to February 6. During this period the MARIN office is still open.
The flexibility and large size of MARIN’s basins enable a wide variety of imposed motions, actuator controls, and sailing conditions. CAPTIVE MANOEUVRING MODEL TESTS With increased size and complexity, new ship designs require extensive manoeuvring studies and captain training to guarantee safe handling once in operation. To do so, MARIN combines the best
Distribution of relative fuel savings over true wind speed in ballast and loaded condition for two ship types showing larger fuel savings in ballast condition at the lower wind speeds. At higher wind speeds the losses increase and savings start to decrease. Wind-powered shipping increasingly popular The uptake of wind propulsion as a
ON THE SIMULATION OF LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER FLOWS USING THE RANS EQUATIONS WITH EDDY-VISCOSITY AND TRANSITION MODELS Authors: Eça, L., Lopes, R., Kerkvliet, M., Toxopeus, S.L. Conference/Journal: AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum, San Diego, CA, USA and Virtual Date: Jan 4, 2022 DOI: https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-2569 This paper presents the results obtained with an incompressible flow solver for the
