On Tuesday, November 26, Lighthouse hosted the seminar day Wind Propulsion in Theory and Reality. Here, you can watch the entire seminar afterwards and access presentations and discussions entirely focused on the "sails" of the future.

Part 1:

Part 2 

Programme

Part 1: 
Welcome and introduction - Åsa Burman, Director at Lighthouse

Theme - research

• Wind Propulsion for Ships – new opportunities and new challenges - Sofia Werner, Resarcher and project manager, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
• The wind is changing for ship propulsion, also below the surface - Rickard Bensow, Professor, Chalmers University of Technology
• Experimental studies of wind and aerodynamics for wind-powered commercial ships - Ulysse Dhomé, PhD, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Theme - Rules and regulations

• Rules and regulations for WASP (wind assisted wind propulsion) - from the perspective of classification  societies - Mikael Johansson, Principal consultant, DNV 

Part 2:
Theme - Development and innovation in industry

• Sails in perspective of a shipowner - Nicolas Bathfield, Project manager, Stena Teknik
• How to prepare and train crew for wind assisted vessels - Claes Möller, CEO, Terntank
• One solution for windpropulsion - Oceanbird - Magnus MackAldener, R&D Manager, Oceanbird 
• Route Optimization for Wind Assisted Vessels - Harsha Cheemakurthy, PhD Naval Architect, StormGeo