The multi-purpose boat is able to clean a water surface area of millions of square meters within 24 hours

Photo: Rostec State Corporation

Remvooruzhenie holding (included in Rostec’s RT-Capital) has developed a next generation waste-skimming vessel named Sever. This is a multi-purpose boat built to recover oil contamination and floating marine debris. The vessel is able to clean a water surface area of millions of square meters within 24 hours.

This is a catamaran-type specialized vessel designed for ports, harbors, roads and large river areas where oil film and debris shall be collected on a regular basis.

“There is a growing need in renewal of the specialized vessels in Russia’s environmental protection fleet: according to the sector-specific estimates, the mean age of such vessels in Russia is currently more than 30 years, while the load on the port and river infrastructure is further increasing. At the same time, risks of oil spills and other contaminations in natural water areas remain an urgent challenge, and environmental requirements are growing. The Sever project will allow for renewal of Russia’s environmental protection fleet and competing with the world’s best solutions in this class. The design level of oil recovery from water is set to more than 92% which is higher than that of similar foreign vessels. According to design data, the catamaran will be able to remove an oil spill area of 1 square kilometer (1000 x 1000 m oil plume) within 10 hours and 15 hours in bad weather conditions. Whilst potential damage from one such oil plume is at least manifold more expensive than the vessel building and operation costs put together,” said Aleksandr Nazarov, Deputy General Director of Rostec.

Sever is designed as a multi-purpose platform capable of providing both effective emergency response and day-to-day operation. Design specifications of the vessel are as follows: LOA — 24 m, beam — 8.6 m, draft — 1.73 m. The crew consists of 4 persons. The catamaran can collect contaminations from a band of water with a width of 15 m, with a water treatment rate of about 100,000 square meters per hour. Potential contamination collection capacity is up to 120 tons per day.