The Joint Branch Contact:

Arun Kr. Dev BSc(Eng) MSc PhD CEng EurIng
CMarEng CMarTech FRINA FIMarEST MSNAME
Chairman of the Joint Branch of the RINA
and the IMarEST (Singapore)
E-mail: akdev@singnet.com.sg
Mobile: +65 9172 9527

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Conference Program

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Last updated: 14 July 2009.

Program Time Table

Wednesday, 5 August 2009

Pre-Conference Welcome Reception
Mercury 1, Level 5
Furama RiverFront
405 Havelock Road
Singapore 169633

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Thursday, 6 August 2009

8.15am Registration
9.00am Opening Ceremony

Opening Address by
LRET Professor Choo Yoo Sang
Immediate Past President, IMarEST
Director (Research), Centre for Offshore Research & Engineering, NUS

Welcome Address by
Dr Arun Dev
Chairman, The Joint Branch of the RINA and the IMarEST (Singapore) Chairman, The Organizing Committee of “OSV Singapore 2009”
Director, Newcastle University Marine International (NUMI) – Singapore

Speech by Guest-of-Honour
Mr Lam Yi Young
Chief Executive, Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore

Keynote Paper 1:
New Challenges in the Design of OSV Vessels
Håvard Stave, Ulstein Design AS
10.00am Tea/Coffee Break
10.30am Efficient and Reliable Propulsion Systems for Offshore Support Vessels
Terje Nordtun, Wartsila Ship Power Offshore
11.10am Fuel Saving and Reduction of Environmental Emissions in OSV and AHTS by use of Electric and Hybrid Propulsion
Alf Kåre Ådnanes, ABB AS
11.50am A Review of DP Station Keeping Incidents and Systematic Safety Management
Brian P. Jenner, SEAWISE Maritime Services
12.30am Lunch
1.30pm Ten Major Design Evolutions of the Humble OSV
B.H.Wong, Ezra Holdings
2.10pm New IMO Requirements for Coating of Ballast Water Tanks – Challenges and Solutions
Jan Weitzenböck, Helge Vold, Gisle Hersvik and Bjarne Jansen, Det Norske Veritas
2.50pm Voith Schneider Propeller (VSP) - Investigations of the Cavitation Behaviour
Dirk Jürgens and Hans.-Jürgen Heinke, Voith Turbo Schneider Propulsion Gm, & Co. KG
3.30pm Tea/Coffee Break
4.00pm Numerical Prediction of Cavitation Flow on a Marine Propeller using a CFD Code
J.S. Rao and M. Saravanakumar, Altair Engineering India Pvt. Ltd
4.40pm Class Rules and Complementary CFD Simulations for OSVs
Helge Rathje, Thomas E. Schellin and Jan Kaufmann, Germanischer Lloyd
5.20pm End of Day 1
5.45pm Conference Banquet Dinner
Bus will leave from NUS to dinner venue at 5.30pm
Cocktail reception will begin at 5.45pm; dinner will commence at 6.45pm
Nautical Room II & III, Level 2
Republic of Singapore Yacht Club
52 West Coast Ferry Road
Singapore 126887

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Friday, 7 August 2009

9.30am Keynote Paper 2:
Developments in Ship Propulsion – Efficiency, Fuel Consumption and Environment
Heikki Soljama, ABB AS
10.10am Tea/Coffee Break
10.40am Optimising Propulsion Systems for AHTS Vessels
Jens Ring Nielsen and Henrik Marinussen, MAN Diesel SE
11.20am Offshore Support Vessel Sector Adds New Category - Wind Installation Vessels
Martin Hruska and Michael A. Sano, American Bureau of Shipping
12.00am Lunch
1.00pm Active Roll Compensation System for Helidecks
Uwe Heim and Tom Christian Dahl, TTS Offshore Handling Equipment AS
1.40pm USBL Systems – Pushing the Performance Boundaries
Bob Coutts, Sonardyne Asia Pte Ltd
2.20pm A New Weighted Support Vector Regression and its Application in Ship's Principal Particulars Mathematical Modeling
Dongqin LI, Yifeng GUAN and Can WU, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology
3.00pm End of Conference

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