Marine technology consultants Cape Horn Engineering announce their involvement with the design of the first EcoClipper ship. As environmental concerns are influencing a greater need for renewable and sustainable energy across the world, specialist technologies are at the forefront of new designs and solutions. The innovative EcoClipper ship concept has been created by a group of visionaries to help reduce global emissions and to create a greener, shipping industry.
EcoClipper500
The Dutch based company, EcoClipper, was founded in 2018 by Jorne Langelaan, sail cargo expert and co-founder of shipping company Fairtransport. The new EcoClipper fleet of ships will sail on four shipping lines with fixed schedules, thereby creating a new shipping logistics system for sail cargo vessels.
The EcoClipper500 will be built in steel with modern construction techniques, based on the design of the successful Dutch clipper Noach, launched in 1857. Whilst the original ship was stated as the fastest Dutch sailing vessel ever built, Langelaan, CEO, wanted to test different hull shapes, to ensure the best performance for the sail cargo ship. Langelaan comments:
“The historic records of Fop Smit’s Noach are extensive. As the design of the ship was built around cargo carrying capabilities and passenger comfort. With Cape Horn Engineering’s expertise, we are able to fine-tune the ship to make sure it can sail as fast as possible, whilst retaining these necessities.”
Cape Horn Engineering
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD technology) is a crucial support for naval architects to optimize designs for critical elements such as weight saving, performance predictions, reducing emissions and ship optimization. Cape Horn Engineering is a leading consultancy, specializing in CFD and related marine technology solutions.
Cape Horn Engineering’s expertise extends to optimize the design of many composite vessels including racing yachts, sailing yachts, power boats, superyachts, and renewable energy structures, for clients all over the world. They have been at the core of simulation-based America’s Cup and Ocean Racing design campaigns for over 15 years, always pushing the boundaries. Similarly, they have vast experience in ship hydrodynamics, having been involved in yacht and ship design for the last 2 decades.
Cape Horn Engineering specialize in high-fidelity RANS based simulation techniques where accurate forces and moments are obtained for the given shape candidates and operating conditions. They use one of the best commercial software packages available, STAR-CCM+ from Siemens PLM and have access to a large high performance computing cluster.
