Putting Power on the Seafloor is a Fuel Cell Future
any distance from the coast and no appropriate for systems only in place for a few years, while batteries are expensive and wasteful.GEOMAR’s solution is a fuel cell, developed in partnership with the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research, Ulm (ZSW), as part of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology funded ARIM-FUEL project (ARIM stands for “Autonomous Robotic Sea-Floor Infrastructure for Bentho-Pelagic Monitoring”). It’s a proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell, in which hydrogen and oxygen are fed to a polymer membrane electrolyte and platinum based electrodes
DNV GL Offshore Diving Guideline Now Available in English
into account the existing national and international legal norms, rules and guidelines, a common minimum standard for diving in German coastal waters and the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) was developed under the lead of DNV GL. The German version, sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi), was set up as a project under the National Masterplan Maritime Technologies (NMMT) and implemented in cooperation with the offshore diving working group. The guide contains administrative principles and the responsibilities of personnel involved in diving operations
HoOK R&D Project Examines Offshore Crane Ops
With funding from the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and supported by “Projektträger Jülich” (PTJ) [project sponsors Jülich], over the next three years Hamburg University of Technology, Mareval AG Hamburg and the maritime engineering company HeavyLift@Sea will conduct research into the improvement of tools for the simulation of offshore crane operations. The project is named HoOK - Hochseeoperationen mit Kranen [Offshore Operations with Cranes]. The goal is the early integration of the necessary tools into the design and planning process of ships – an
Successful New Design ROV Testing in Atlantic Ocean
successfully tested in the deep Atlantic. In early May 2012, a new pressure-tolerant ROV named Erno2, designed by Enitech GmbH (Rostock, Germany), was successfully tested within the framework of the “Pressure-tolerant deep-sea systems” project of Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi). Driven by electric thrusters, the light vehicle easily manoeuvred above the seabed, streaming live video from over 4000 m deep with its 3 video cameras and LED lights. The actual robot was attached to its tether management system (TMS) during the two-hour descent
February 2024
