Partnership helps realise river cleaning idea

During the partnership between C-Job and The Ocean Cleanup, launched over a year ago, C-Job has played an advisory role in the development of the Interceptor, a 100% solar-powered, autonomously operating system designed to remove river-borne plastic.

Nikos Papapanagiotou, lead naval architect at C-Job, explained the company were approached when The Ocean Cleanup was developing their concept design with engineering firm TME.

“They wanted us to develop the idea further by looking at the system from a naval architectural perspective,” he said. “This led to us helping with the brainstorming of ideas, participating in their risk assessments and evaluations. In general, contributing an advisory role in the decision-making process.”

Diverse calculations

The initial part of C-Job’s participation with the Interceptor was to carry out diverse calculations on this concept design. Mr Papapanagiotou explained C-Job assisted TME with the floating structures during the concept and basic design stage. “With the results from our stability calculations, the definition of loading conditions and structural analysis of the floaters, they could calculate the superstructure design,” he said.

As the Interceptor project progressed, C-Job continued to provide additional naval architectural support and documentation relating to issues including stability calculations and inclination testing, freeboard calculations, structural calculations, navigation light arrangements and a vessel safety plan.

By Rebecca Jeffrey