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“Korea and Norway maritime opportunities
and challenges in the High North”
“High North operations and research
challenges”
Harald Ellingsen,
Professor, Head of Department,
Department of Marine Technology,
Norwegian University of Science and
Technology – NTNU
Tuesday May 15, 2012
Grand Hyatt Hotel Seoul
Fram in the ice – The Fram Museum

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NTNU established 1910
The Main Building

3. 3 FACTS
NTNU
Norwegian University of
Science and Technology
53 departments in 7 faculties
NTNU Library
Museum of Natural History and Archaeology
20 000 registered students, 7000 admitted/year
750 international students
2200 MSc degrees awarded a year
300 PhD degrees awarded a year
4320 employees
2600 empl. in education and research; 555 professors
Budget: 0.6 billion EUR
555 000 m2 owned and rented premises
NTNU, May 2006

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Marine Technology Centre in brief
NTNU Department of Marine Ship Model Tank (1939)
Technology and MARINTEK are
co-located at the centre. Ocean Laboratory
• Graduates 100 MSc and 15-20 (1981)
PhDs every year.
• Currently 100 PhD’s in progress
• The Centre of Excellence for Ships
and Ocean Structures (CeSOS) is
an integral part of the centre.
• Co-localised with MARINTEK, a
research institute within SINTEF Construction & Energy
(~200 employees). Laboratories;
Education Centre (1979)
• 6 Maritime Knowledge HUB chairs
within important areas sponsored by
the industry and the Ministry of
Trade (8 in all to NTNU)

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Infrastructure - some laboratories
Structure laboratory
Towing tank Ocean Laboratory
Marine cybernetic lab. RV ”Gunnerus”

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Close collaboration with:
• Maritime Industry
• National Research and Education
• International partners
• Joint strategic research
programmes
NTNU-personnel
working on SINTEF employees teach
SINTEF projects at NTNU
• Joint use of laboratories
and instruments
www.ntnu.no

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Our main product

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The Norwegian
economic zone
• 6 times larger than
the main land area.
• Important for oil and
gas, maritime
transport fisheries
etc.
• Most important
nursing ground for
the Norwegian Arctic
cod.

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Globale challenges to be met:
• Food
• Energy
• Climate
• Environment
• Resources
(minerals, metal water,
etc.)

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Challenges in the North
• Temperatures • Operations planning
• Darkness • Structural design
• Polar storms • Ice class, weight
• Huge distances • Resistance in ice versus
• Extreme loads and open waters
responses • Power system
• Human aspects • Control system
• Variety in ice • Loading capacity
conditions • Safety, escape system
• Politcal issues • Environmental impacts
• Etc. • Etc.
Solving an equation with many unknown!

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Arctic – Methodology/Research
Ice mechanics/
physics
Ice actions
Environmental loads
Arctic Offshore
Field Development,
Transport System Design,
Ship Design etc.

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Arctic Challenges and
NTNU research areas:
• Petroleum center - IPT
– Arctic geophysics and drilling
• Marine technology center - MTS
– Ship design and control systems for extreme conditions (design,
safety, structures, cybernetics, hydrodynamics etc.)
– Centre of Excellence: CeSOS; Centre for ships and ocean
structures
– Chair in Sustainable Arctic Transport sponsored by the Ministry
of Trade and Industry
• Applied Underwater Robotics Laboratory (AUR-lab)
• SFI - SAMCoT
– Marine Technology for Arctic Offshore Field Development and
technology for Arctic Coastal Development

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Hydrocarbon exploitation in ultra deep water
and arctic areas define new requirements:
• Limited support from surface
vessels
• Demand for all-year inspection and
intervention operations
• Permanently installed multitasking
hybrid underwater vehicles
(ROV/AUV) is enabling technology
• Subsea energy recharging and
high bandwidth communication
hubs are required
• Robust control systems handling
multi-regime operations to be
designed

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Ice Management
Research cooperation with Kongsberg Maritime
• Ice mapping using sonar
• Environmental
monitoring
• Survey operations
• Inspection
HUGIN Remus
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Drilling needs new solutions
• Arctic drilling ship
• Drilling under ice
• Drilling from
onshore
Ilustration: Statoil

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Sustainable Arctic Sea Transport
Concerned with: Summer 2011
Winter 2010/2011
• Destination transport
Polar basin: 2010.11.01 - 2011.05.31
2011.06.01 2011.10.31
• Field logistics
• Transit logistics
Majority of Arctic transport is
found in Norwegian waters
today:
• Traffic density > 65 deg N High density
for 6 months (W/S) from 0
Low density
500
nm
AISSat-1 Plot resolution = 5-7 km
depending on area
(Source: Norwegian Coastal
Authority)

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Sustainable Arctic Sea Transport –
Challenges and Focus Areas
Challenges
• Individual vessel design for extreme conditions
• Safe operations and transport
• Fleet and operations management in remote
locations
Focus Areas
• Design of the individual vessel for Arctic conditions
• Simulation-based design of ice going vessels
• Identification of the optimum fleet size and mix for
Arctic conditions

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The NSR Logistic Chain
Balancing the Risk of the Opportunity
Industrial solutions Transport solutions
Opening the
Northern Sea Route for New logistics solutions
Opportunity Bulk Commodities – Ship technology
Bringing the High North
Closer to the Market
(reduced distance and sailing time)
Value chain risks Fairway risks
Risks (example: risk for delayed
delivery)
Ship technology
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Ship design for the Arctic
Recent research findings
Optimisation of ice strengthened
hull structures – a Finish-Swedish
Ice Class and IACS Polar Class
comparison. Ehlers S., Riska K.
2012.
• Identification of optimal
structural layout
• Influence of the design Large potential to decrease
point on the cost and mass and cost through
weight optimization for ice-loading

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Ice lab tests of ship ice berg collisions
Ice berg pulled into panel
SAMCOT/NTNU /Hydralab Aalto University March 2012
Floater ”Storheim” Ref: Ekaterina Kim, Martin Stiorheim, Rudiger v Bock u Pallach
All watertight welds are full penetration welds! (The rest of welds are fillet welds).
Dimensions are given in mm.
FLOATER
PANEL
1. Floater plate thickness 6 mm

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Applied Underwater Robotics Laboratory
AUR-lab
“The largest laboratory in the world”

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Applied Underwater Robotics Laboratory
AUR-Lab
RV Gunnerus
NTNU Research Groups (25-35 Staff):
• Department of Marine Technology and CeSOS
• Department of Biology (incl. UNIS and CalPoly/Delaware)
• Department for Archaeology and Religious Studies
• Department of Engineering Cybernetics
• Department of Electronics and Telecommunications
ROV Minerva
• Museum of Natural History and Archeology ROV Minerva
ROV SF 30k
Scientific focus areas:
• Development of technology for guidance, navigation and
control of underwater vehicles (ROVs and AUVs)
• Underwater acoustic communication
• Environmental monitoring and mapping at sea surface, water
column, and sea bed
• Operations under ice in the arctic
• Study of any object of interest (bio-geo-chemical objects)
• Inspection/surveillance for environmental agencies, oil industry,
ecotoxicology AUV REMUS 100
• Evaluation of seabed properties and habitat
• Complex deepwater underwater operations including
inspection and intervention
• Deep water archeology

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SFI - SAMCoT
• SAMCoT shall be a leading national and international
center for the development of robust technology
needed by the industry for sustainable exploration
and exploitation of the valuable and vulnerable Arctic
region.
• SAMCoT will meet the challenges due to ice,
permafrost and changing climate for the benefit of the
energy sector and society.

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SAMCoT Research Areas
(6 different Work Packages)
WP1 – Collection & analysis of field data and properties
WP2 – Material Modelling
WP3 – Fixed Structures in Ice
WP4 – Floating Structures in Ice
WP5 – Ice Management and Design Philosophy
WP6 – Coastal Technology

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SAMCoT
WP4 - Floating Structures in Ice
Goals:
To develop new knowledge, analytical and numerical models needed
by the industry to improve the prediction of loads exerted by first-
year and multi-year level ice and ridges as well as icebergs on
floating structures.
This also implies prediction of the behaviour and performance of the
structures.

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Korea – Norway University Cooperation
• KAIST - NTNU (Marine) MoU;
June 2010
• Pusan National University,
Pusan
• University of Ulsan, Ulsan
(MoU)
• Several visits and work shops
– both ways
• Student exchange
• Researcher exchange
• PhD program under
development (with KAIST)

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Korea – Norway Research co-operation at
Svalbard
Mechanical testing of ice and properties

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Summing up
• Co-operation potential Korea -
Norway
• Huge maritime industry with
common interests
• Complementary competence
• Strong maritime/marine education
and research infrastructure on both
sides
• Arctic research a key area at NTNU
• Sustainability, a crucial presumption