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Sectors
Commercial Marine
Sonihull is an environmentally safe way to protect your investment against bio-fouling wherever your vessel is exposed to raw seawater. On the outside, the build-up of algae, weeds and barnacles on your hull and propellers can reduce your speed and increase your fuel bill by 30%. On the inside, marine organisms can infest your raw seawater handling equipment, restrict cooling water systems and cause major engine or equipment damage.
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Oil & Gas
Remote offshore installations require robust, reliable equipment. Sonihull is the only ultrasonic antifouling system in the world that is ATEX-Certified for use in Hazardous Zones 0, 1 and 2. That means Sonihull is trusted as a fit-and-forget antifouling measure in all types of oil and gas installations that have raw seawater cooling systems. From protecting in-water rig structures to ensuring that LNG vaporisers keep cool.
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Windfarm
Sonihull ultrasonic antifouling systems are changing the way these offshore monoliths are being built and operated. By controlling the amount of marine growth that attaches, hydrodynamic loadings are reduced and structural steel requirements can be reduced by up to 10%. Operator access is safer and removing over 50 tonnes of lifetime marine fouling from a structure significantly reduces the craning and de-commissioning costs.
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Workboats
One of the most diverse and hard-working maritime sectors, workboats have to fulfill all kinds of duties from fast pilot transfer to critical docking manoeuvres. Downtime is not an option. Sonihull provides effective bio-fouling without the poisonous environmental legacy of biocides, metal compounds or microplastics. The systems are easy to install and can reduce capital and lifetime MRO costs in box coolers by up to 95% compared to similar impressed-current antifouling systems.
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Superyachts
Sonihull is trusted by some of the world's most discerning marine customers. Most superyachts are operated as commercial entities and are under similar time and performance pressures as other floating assets. In order to reduce downtime and maximize charter income, superyacht owners and operators have always been keen to introduce new technologies like Sonihull to keep their vessels out of drydock for as long as possible.
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Leisure Boating
Sonihull is 100% environmentally safe antifouling, there's no gelcoat etching or annual scraping and re-painting. With Sonihull, there is no leaching of poisonous biocides, no shedding of microplastics from ablative coatings and the low-powered ultrasound frequencies used are completely harmless to marine mammals and fish.
Every year in Europe, over 2,900 tonnes of microplastic is estimated to migrate into the sea from ablative antifouling coatings on leisure boats. In Norway, the Green Marina project, in conjunction with the World Wildlife Fund, has proven that only three items are needed to maintain a clean leisure boat hull. A hard coating on new hulls, a Sonihull ultrasonic antifouling system and regular high-speed use (or a drive-through boat scrubber).
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Fisheries
The large containment systems used in open-water fisheries can suffer from the build-up of marine fouling. Sonihull is being used in the sector to keep nets and cages clean, greatly reducing operator maintenance and movement requirements. The system is environmentally safe and harmless to fish and marine mammals.
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Protect your vessel
Sonihull’s mission is to deliver environmentally safe, cost effective antifouling wherever unwanted bio-fouling persists. Our vision is:
To make dosing the oceans with poisonous biocides and microplastics a thing of the past
To deliver effective antifouling systems using the power of ultrasound
To save the oceans, one ship at a time
Testimonials
I want to thank you for your advice to install aboard my ship two SoniHull DUO… I am, after one year, really very happy with those devices. My ship, a 65 Ft steel trawler, has stayed one full year in Brunswick Landing Marina. Here everyone sends a diver every two months for cleaning his hull off the growth, so I have asked the diver to check my hull, after one year without cleaning… The guy was really amazed by the fact that my hull was still perfectly clean… Except for some barnacles on the shafts and propellers, so my only regret is not to have installed the sonic system for the shafts as well. This system is really great and super-efficient. Thanks again for this product.
Pierre – Brunswick Landing Marina, USA
After the first week, a noticeable difference could be seen, by the end of the 4th week, the results were conclusive. The vessel fitted with Sonihull had little or no growth over the entire hull, while the other vessel was found to have so much growth the vessel struggled to get on the plane. As a result of this test, Sonihull will be included in all future standard project specifications.
MTR16 Patrol Boat
Coastguard – UAE
Finally, I am proud to inform you that the first Sonihull antifouling system has been installed on one of the SAR vessel without any problem. We have installed two transducers on the intake of the water jests, one between engine & generator and another one in accommodation. After finding this project successful, many other vessels will be in the row.
Ali Karsaz
SAR Vessel- Gulf Arabian
Vigilant coming out to dry dock in Kuwait, she has been in the water for almost a year (February 2015) and is in a pretty impressive condition. There is no fouling at all.
Dean Thomas
Vigilant Patrol Boat – Kuwait