'New hull form to give 15% improvement over current fleet
June 8, 2023By Seawork Press FP
BAR Technologies
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Innovative marine engineering consultancy, BAR Technologies, and naval architects, Deltamarin, are to lead the way in wind propulsion innovation with new build design, Aframax/LRII. The announcement of this latest partnership comes off the back of previous collaboration on WindWings which, with saving of approximately 1.5 tonnes of fuel per wing per day, will debut on the Pyxis Ocean soon, fresh from being nominated for a Next Generation Ship Award. Above deck, there have been great strides in design that harnesses the potential of wind propulsion; the next frontier, recognised in this partnership, is to complement this with hull forms modified specifically to maximise wind power. With this new hull design, BAR Technologies and Deltamarin’s early predictions suggest that as much as 10 tonnes of fuel per day can be saved with an Aframax/LRII hull and 4 WindWings using a North America/ Rotterdam roundtrip as an example.
