Examensarbete

Projektet är utfört av 8 studenter på mastersprogrammet i skeppsteknik. Det är utformat som ett förslag till en hypotetisk kund som befordrar passagerare över Göta Älv i Göteborg. En pendelfärja med kapacitet för 199 passagerare och 50 cyklar föreslås. Färjan skall operera i en fast rutt mellan Rosenlund och Lindholmen. Den skall inte generera några utsläpp. Projektet har undersökt ett antal nya tekniker, som inte används inom dagens sjöfart.

This is the written report from the ship Design project 2008 course MMA 150, by the students at the master program ‘Naval Architecture’. The design project aims at concluding the knowledge gained in previous courses and is, as proposed by the name carried out in a project. The client (in quote) of this project was the city of Gothenburg, or a hypothetical shipping company running passenger traffic on the river Gota Alv. For this purpose a ferry shuttle with capacity of 199 passengers and 50 bicycles is proposed. With emphasis on shuttle traffic, the ferry is to operate on a fixed service frequency between Rosenlund and Lindholmen. With the aim to come up with a deadweight to displacement ratio of 0.5 and the emissions from the ferry set to zero, the project has run into a number of novel techniques not of common use in the shipping industry today. This report covers the different solutions to general hull shape, prime mover, passenger flow, construction material etc up to present time. The final proposal is a double ended catamaran with 250 m2 deck space. Propulsion and auxiliary power is supplied by an exchangeable battery pack. Composite materials using sandwich construction results in an efficient utilization of resources and for the overall layout a minimalistic approach helped to reduce weight.