@article{Ponce Adriazola_Mantari_2019, title={Process of design an eco-friendly catamaran to extract aquatic plants}, volume={13}, url={https://shipjournal.co/index.php/sst/article/view/189}, DOI={10.25043/19098642.189}, abstractNote={<div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="section"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>This paper presents the design of an eco-friendly catamaran that follows two design methodologies, one focusing in the importance in the needs of future users and the other the spiral boat design methodology. The project is going to take advantage of the unique form of a catamaran and use the space available between the points of flotation for the process of extracting small plants and light plastics from the surface of recreational lakes. With the project the esthetics and also the aquatic ecosystem of the lake would be better preserved. The application of the project, could improve the time required to recollect the duckweed and only required one operator; however, the potential of the project is significantly bigger as it could be used as a method to extract superficial contaminants in ‘garbage patches’ in the ocean and lakes without harming the species that still are in the zone of operation. Good practices of engineering are going to be use for the design of the catamaran, as well as for the selection of the necessary components.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div>}, number={25}, journal={Ciencia y tecnología de buques}, author={Ponce Adriazola, Leonardo Abel and Mantari, José Luis}, year={2019}, month={Jul.}, pages={53–65} }