FOUL-X-SPEL - Environmentally Friendly Antifouling Technology to Optimise the Energy Efficiency of Ships
Overview
Background & policy context:
Adhesion of micro-organisms on hulls, algae to the coated surface, is the precursor of later fixation of macro-organisms, which causes serious hydrodynamic problems.
Objectives:
Research and innovative developments of environmental friendly surface protection is the main goal of the present project.
Methodology:
The basic idea concerns the modification of usual hulls by providing anew antifouling coating, by fixing covalently bioactive molecules, whichcan provide biocide activity, in order to avoid leaching and to promotea long-term effect of surface protection. This requires the bindingthrough a molecular bridge and to study the effective concentration ofthe binded active compounds. The new surface coating technology will bythis way minimize the surface roughness and improve hydrodynamicproperties of hulls.
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