Final Year Project: Hydrodynamics Load on ROV during Recovery

Just to follow up the video I had just made. It is about the time I spent in the lab for the whole week last week. To conclude that, I would said it was an incredible time! And I don’t think it will happen very often in my life, and I also don’t think many people have this experience. Well, I said that because I heard from the lab technicians, only about 5 students in my year who have experiments testing as part of their project. It is about 70-80 students in my years in marine technology department, so I am lucky to be one of the 6% students. =)

To start talking about my project, is best to start with the KTP project which is Knowledge Transfer Project. It is a UK government funded project for knowledge transfer between university and industry which aim to improve the business from the knowledge based fundamental theory which provide from the university. In the other hand, though this project, the university can have deeper understanding on what the industry need and what are the technical problems facing currently, and hopefully improve existing method, come out with a more time and cost effective solution.

So, my project is collaborate with SMD Ltd. which is a ROV (remote operated vehicle) manufacturing company based in Newcastle.  Welcome to visit SMD official website: https://smd.co.uk/

I had contributed to meetings with SMD Ltd. and understand the problems involved in ROV operations and engineering analysis. It is an honor to be part of this project. Thank you so much to SMD Ltd and Newcastle University for this opportunity.

PS: Saw a FPSO and a small barge outside SMD office.

My final year project is title with Hydrodynamics Load on ROV during Recovery. Basically, it is to have deeper understanding on the ROV behavior during launch and recovery, including its motion and the hydrodynamic load. We have a Q-Trencher 1400 Model in the lab which have a scale of 1:12.

As part of my project, I designed a launch and recovery test system in the Newcastle University towing tank. I used about 4 weeks’ time to communicate with the lab technicians and my supervisor to find a winch motor which capable to give the ROV lift in two different constant speed. I also provided simple experiment set up drawings using AutoCAD to help the lab technicians. Finally, we conducted the tests in 16^th March – 20^th March. I am very happy because the results we got were expected.

Alongside with the experiment testings, I also recorded and made a short video to summarize the work we did in a week in the lab. I was working for this video until 2.30am on Thursday night. That is because in case of any missing/failure screen, I will still have the opportunity to recapture the screen on Friday. Even thought it was a busy and tired week, but it worth me doing that anyway. I got many positive feedbacks from the lab technicians, from my supervisor, from my friends and family. And finally I am very happy to see everyone happy. =)

I believe this video will benefit to my university and also to SMD Ltd., not just the engineering knowledge but also the marketing part.

The video is in private right now. If you are interested, leave a comment below, I will add you to my circles, its preemptive version right now yo! Thank you for reading, feel free to comment on the video, much appreciated to have your feedback. =)