TY - GEN
T1 - Design and modeling of submersible fish cages with copper netting for open ocean aquaculture marine 2013
AU - Drach, Andrew
AU - Tsukrov, Igor
AU - Decew, Judson
AU - Swift, M. Robinson
AU - Celikkol, Barbaros
AU - Hurtado, Carlos F.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Open ocean aquaculture is a rapidly growing industry with the potential to satisfy the global seafood demand in the environment of declining wild fish harvesting. However, technologies developed for inshore aquaculture are not easily transferrable to the exposed fish farm locations. In particular, the structural integrity of fish cage/mooring systems, and the high cost of the maintenance (cleaning of the biofouled netting) are two major concerns in the engineering for open ocean aquaculture. This paper deals with introduction of copper alloy nets in open ocean aquaculture as a new technology to reduce biofouling, improve cage volume stability, its structural strength, and to provide additional protection from predators. Copper alloys have natural resistance to corrosion and biofouling combined with high strength and stiffness. However, these materials have higher density, different hydrodynamic properties and structural characteristics when compared to traditionally used nylon nets. The paper presents novel design and fabrication procedures needed for engineering of the offshore fish farms utilizing copper alloy netting. These procedures are illustrated on a commercial size gravity-type offshore fish cage, which was designed and successfully deployed in the Pacific Ocean near Isla Italia (Patagonia, Chile).
AB - Open ocean aquaculture is a rapidly growing industry with the potential to satisfy the global seafood demand in the environment of declining wild fish harvesting. However, technologies developed for inshore aquaculture are not easily transferrable to the exposed fish farm locations. In particular, the structural integrity of fish cage/mooring systems, and the high cost of the maintenance (cleaning of the biofouled netting) are two major concerns in the engineering for open ocean aquaculture. This paper deals with introduction of copper alloy nets in open ocean aquaculture as a new technology to reduce biofouling, improve cage volume stability, its structural strength, and to provide additional protection from predators. Copper alloys have natural resistance to corrosion and biofouling combined with high strength and stiffness. However, these materials have higher density, different hydrodynamic properties and structural characteristics when compared to traditionally used nylon nets. The paper presents novel design and fabrication procedures needed for engineering of the offshore fish farms utilizing copper alloy netting. These procedures are illustrated on a commercial size gravity-type offshore fish cage, which was designed and successfully deployed in the Pacific Ocean near Isla Italia (Patagonia, Chile).
KW - Copper alloy net
KW - Design
KW - Finite element analysis
KW - Offshore aquaculture
KW - Submersible fish cage
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84891354726
SN - 9788494140747
T3 - Computational Methods in Marine Engineering V - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering, MARINE 2013
SP - 178
EP - 189
BT - Computational Methods in Marine Engineering V - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering, MARINE 2013
T2 - 5th International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering, MARINE 2013
Y2 - 29 May 2013 through 31 May 2013
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