Sectors

Commercial Marine

Sonihull is an environmentally safe way to protect your investment against bio-fouling wherever your vessel is exposed to raw seawater. On the outside, the build-up of algae, weeds and barnacles on your hull and propellers can reduce your speed and increase your fuel bill by 30%. On the inside, marine organisms can infest your raw seawater handling equipment, restrict cooling water systems and cause major engine or equipment damage.

Choose an item to protect:

Box-coolers

Benefit of using Sonihull:

No downtime, no biocides, no drilling or welding, no expensive impressed current copper anodes to replace, reduces capital and MRO costs by up to 95% compared to ICAF systems

Sea-chests

Benefit of using Sonihull:

No need to drydock and drain the sea chests, Sonihull can be fitted during operation, maintains efficiency of RSW coding systems

Pipework

Benefit of using Sonihull:

Sonihull bonds directly to the outside of any sized pipe and prevents weeds and molluscs colonising all types of rigid pipework

Intakes

Benefit of using Sonihull:

Keeps intakes free from weed, mussel and barnacle growth to maintain flow of cooling water preventing overheating

Valves

Benefit of using Sonihull:

Surface adaptors can be bonded to all pipework and valves ensuring that cross-overs and cooling performance is maintained

Hulls

Benefit of using Sonihull:

With no loss of performance up to 80m from the control unit, multiple units can be integrated to protect even the biggest surfaces

Steering Gear

Benefit of using Sonihull:

Can be located to control fouling on steering gear and other underwater control surfaces to reduce drag and improve helm response

Diesel & Water Storage Tanks

Benefit of using Sonihull:

Controls Diesel bug in stored fuel and keeps stored potable water fresher for longer

Oil & Gas

Remote offshore installations require robust, reliable equipment. Sonihull is the only ultrasonic antifouling system in the world that is ATEX-Certified for use in Hazardous Zones 0, 1 and 2. That means Sonihull is trusted as a fit-and-forget antifouling measure in all types of oil and gas installations that have raw seawater cooling systems. From protecting in-water rig structures to ensuring that LNG vaporisers keep cool.

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Pipework

Benefit of using Sonihull:

Sonihull bonds directly to the outside of any sized pipe and prevents weeds and molluscs colonising all types of rigid pipework

Intakes

Benefit of using Sonihull:

Keeps intakes free from weed, mussel and barnacle growth to maintain flow of cooling water preventing overheating

Valves

Benefit of using Sonihull:

Surface adaptors can be bonded to all pipework and valves ensuring that cross-overs and cooling performance is maintained

ATEX Certified

Benefit of using Sonihull:

The world's only ATEX-approved ultrasonic antifouling system, fit and forget bio-fouling protection in Zones 0, 1 and 2

Windfarm

Sonihull ultrasonic antifouling systems are changing the way these offshore monoliths are being built and operated. By controlling the amount of marine growth that attaches, hydrodynamic loadings are reduced and structural steel requirements can be reduced by up to 10%. Operator access is safer and removing over 50 tonnes of lifetime marine fouling from a structure significantly reduces the craning and de-commissioning costs.

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Hulls

Benefit of using Sonihull:

With no loss of performance up to 80m from the control unit, multiple units can be integrated to protect even the biggest surfaces

Workboats

One of the most diverse and hard-working maritime sectors, workboats have to fulfill all kinds of duties from fast pilot transfer to critical docking manoeuvres. Downtime is not an option. Sonihull provides effective bio-fouling without the poisonous environmental legacy of biocides, metal compounds or microplastics. The systems are easy to install and can reduce capital and lifetime MRO costs in box coolers by up to 95% compared to similar impressed-current antifouling systems.

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Box-coolers

Benefit of using Sonihull:

No downtime, no biocides, no drilling or welding, no expensive impressed current copper anodes to replace, reduces capital and MRO costs by up to 95% compared to ICAF systems

Sea-chests

Benefit of using Sonihull:

No need to drydock and drain the sea chests, Sonihull can be fitted during operation, maintains efficiency of RSW coding systems

Pipework

Benefit of using Sonihull:

Sonihull bonds directly to the outside of any sized pipe and prevents weeds and molluscs colonising all types of rigid pipework

Intakes

Benefit of using Sonihull:

Keeps intakes free from weed, mussel and barnacle growth to maintain flow of cooling water preventing overheating

Valves

Benefit of using Sonihull:

Surface adaptors can be bonded to all pipework and valves ensuring that cross-overs and cooling performance is maintained

Hulls

Benefit of using Sonihull:

With no loss of performance up to 80m from the control unit, multiple units can be integrated to protect even the biggest surfaces

Shafts & Props

Benefit of using Sonihull:

Bushings can be attached to inboard rotating shafts to prevent fouling settlement on the shafts and propellers

Waterjets

Benefit of using Sonihull:

Outperforms all coatings, maintains as-new performance and efficiency, no cleaning hard-to-reach areas, increased serviced intervals

Steering Gear

Benefit of using Sonihull:

Can be located to control fouling on steering gear and other underwater control surfaces to reduce drag and improve helm response

Superyachts

Sonihull is trusted by some of the world's most discerning marine customers. Most superyachts are operated as commercial entities and are under similar time and performance pressures as other floating assets. In order to reduce downtime and maximize charter income, superyacht owners and operators have always been keen to introduce new technologies like Sonihull to keep their vessels out of drydock for as long as possible.

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Choose an item to protect:

Sea-chests

Benefit of using Sonihull:

No need to drydock and drain the sea chests, Sonihull can be fitted during operation, maintains efficiency of RSW coding systems

Pipework

Benefit of using Sonihull:

Sonihull bonds directly to the outside of any sized pipe and prevents weeds and molluscs colonising all types of rigid pipework

Intakes

Benefit of using Sonihull:

Keeps intakes free from weed, mussel and barnacle growth to maintain flow of cooling water preventing overheating

Valves

Benefit of using Sonihull:

Surface adaptors can be bonded to all pipework and valves ensuring that cross-overs and cooling performance is maintained

Box-coolers

Benefit of using Sonihull:

No downtime, no biocides, no drilling or welding, no expensive impressed current copper anodes to replace, reduces capital and MRO costs by up to 95% compared to ICAF systems

Hulls

Benefit of using Sonihull:

With no loss of performance up to 80m from the control unit, multiple units can be integrated to protect even the biggest surfaces

Waterjets

Benefit of using Sonihull:

Outperforms all coatings, maintains as-new performance and efficiency, no cleaning hard-to-reach areas, increased serviced intervals

Steering Gear

Benefit of using Sonihull:

Can be located to control fouling on steering gear and other underwater control surfaces to reduce drag and improve helm response

Diesel & Water Storage Tanks

Benefit of using Sonihull:

Controls Diesel bug in stored fuel and keeps stored potable water fresher for longer

Leisure Boating

Sonihull is 100% environmentally safe antifouling, there's no gelcoat etching or annual scraping and re-painting. With Sonihull, there is no leaching of poisonous biocides, no shedding of microplastics from ablative coatings and the low-powered ultrasound frequencies used are completely harmless to marine mammals and fish.

Every year in Europe, over 2,900 tonnes of microplastic is estimated to migrate into the sea from ablative antifouling coatings on leisure boats. In Norway, the Green Marina project, in conjunction with the World Wildlife Fund, has proven that only three items are needed to maintain a clean leisure boat hull. A hard coating on new hulls, a Sonihull ultrasonic antifouling system and regular high-speed use (or a drive-through boat scrubber).

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Visit our dedicated site for Leisure Craft and Yachts

Choose an item to protect:

Hulls

Benefit of using Sonihull:

With no loss of performance up to 80m from the control unit, multiple units can be integrated to protect even the biggest surfaces

Shafts & Props

Benefit of using Sonihull:

Bushings can be attached to inboard rotating shafts to prevent fouling settlement on the shafts and propellers

Waterjets

Benefit of using Sonihull:

Outperforms all coatings, maintains as-new performance and efficiency, no cleaning hard-to-reach areas, increased serviced intervals

Stern Drives

Benefit of using Sonihull:

All transducers are IP68 rated, so for small craft applications, adaptors can be attached outside the hull to protect drives and stern gear

Intakes

Benefit of using Sonihull:

Keeps intakes free from weed, mussel and barnacle growth to maintain flow of cooling water preventing overheating

Fisheries

The large containment systems used in open-water fisheries can suffer from the build-up of marine fouling. Sonihull is being used in the sector to keep nets and cages clean, greatly reducing operator maintenance and movement requirements. The system is environmentally safe and harmless to fish and marine mammals.

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Nets & Cages

Benefit of using Sonihull:

Sonihull’s joint venture with Norwegian company Cage CTRL is set to revolutionise commercial fish farming.
Cage CTRL combines Sonihull’s world-leading ultrasonic antifouling technology with a proprietary net construction design.
Click here to read about it.

Pipework

Benefit of using Sonihull:

Sonihull bonds directly to the outside of any sized pipe and prevents weeds and molluscs colonising any rigid pipework used throughout aquaculture, with zero harm to fish.

Protect your vessel

Sonihull’s mission is to deliver environmentally safe, cost effective antifouling wherever unwanted bio-fouling persists. Our vision is:

To make dosing the oceans with poisonous biocides and microplastics a thing of the past
To deliver effective antifouling systems using the power of ultrasound
To save the oceans, one ship at a time

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