Dredger design: factors affecting your project success
Optimizing performance
As well as being a multi-million dollar investment, dredgers are highly complex workhorses. They must be capable of moving substantial loads with many moving, often rotating, parts at a range of scales. And with a lots to integrate into the vessel, including machinery, pumps, engines, hoppers and more, the placement of equipment onboard has a crucial impact on performance and effectiveness.
Any misalignments can cause problems early in the vessel's life, increasing the risk of failures, and adding costs over the service life of the vessel. It's therefore essential that different types of calculations are made to ensure that alignments are at the necessary level of precision. C-Job naval architects and engineers understand how everything is interconnected in a complex dredger, and how different factors
combine and influence each other. We optimize a vessel's design holistically, always considering how a small change in the specification of one item of equipment could result in an unacceptable performance decrease in another system. We consider any necessary tradeoffs, present you with options, and give advice that supports your decision-making. See the gallery below for more information.
Factors affecting success
Cost
Controlling and optimizing CAPEX and OPEX for a dredger involves a myriad of factors including vessel dimensions and capacity, mission equipment, fuel type and efficiency, types of materials and ease of construction. C-Job can assist you in developing your business case and demonstrating ROI through feasibility studies and assessments.
Integration
Dredgers should be designed around their functionality and equipment, so efficient engineering and integration services can determine the success of your project over its lifetime. C-Job experts use the latest high-end software to streamline design and engineering, to make your transition from design to construction smoother.
Load variations
Dredgers and dredging equipment experience high load variations, such as full power during operations, and lower power during transit. Finding the optimum system setup to accommodate these load variations is the difference between designing not just a good vessel, but a better vessel.
Equipment placement
Equipment requires chronological arrangement and correct orientation on a dredger. We work with you to optimize placement according to dependency, while separating equipment where necessary: for example, locating dredge pumps which are fairly noisy away from accommodation areas.
Maintenance
From the outset it's important to optimize dredger designs efficiently to provide space and access for maintenance in order to reduce downtime and costs. We achieve this with well thought-out logistics, and by optimizing redundancy in dredger systems.
Safety
By fully understanding a dredger's operational parameters from the outset, C-Job will minimize operational hazards through smart system design. We also ensure a dredger's design will maintain stability in rough weather conditions, high seas or shallow water.
Comfort
Designing with comfort in mind and reducing vibrations on a dredger is essential. Interior design as part of the vessel's engineering can help to boost the crew's well-being and productivity, without unnecessarily high costs. We can help you balance the investment required to achieve the right level of comfort on board.
Sustainability
C-Job helps you to understand energy use in a dredger's various operation modes, and balances it to increase the vessel's efficiency. We can also help you minimize emissions by, for example, implementing dual fuels, or preparing for low-emissions as part of future dredging contracts.