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UFRJ Wins Student

Design Competition

A team from the Naval and Ocean

Engineering Department at the Feder- al University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) has won the first International Student

Offshore Design Competition spon- sored by the Society of Naval Archi- tects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) and the Ocean, Offshore and Arctic

Standing (left to right): UFRJ Assistant Profes- sor and Advisor Alexandre Alho, Eleandro

Meira de Oliveira, Antonio Goncalves de

Vasconcelos Neto; Front (left to right):

Rodrigo Klim Gomes, Alberto Rangel de

Almeida and Maiza Pimenta Goular. (Not pictured: Cassiano Rodrigues Neves.)

Engineering Division of the American

Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) with their entry "Preliminary

Design of the 'Maracana' FPSO Unit."

The entry was one of eight projects submitted by students from universi- ties around the world.

The UFRJ team was honored with a cash prize of $1,500 and the opportu- nity to present the Maracana floating production/storage and offloading unit (FPSO) to industry at the SNAME

Annual Meeting in Boston on Septem- ber 25-28.

Alexandre Alho, Assistant Profes- sor, UFRJ and Advisor to the six per- son award-winning design team, said that in order to simulate an actual commercial project, the team was divided into six main categories: structure, stability, marine engineer- ing, sea keeping and costs with a team leader or project manager. "The biggest challenge for us was this was not a conversion of an exist- ing ship but an FPSO design from the beginning," said Joao Alberto Rangel de Almeida, Team Leader.

The students used research and data from Petrobras to base their design model on a site- specific structure located offshore Brazil in the Campos

Basin.

Design team students worked as interns for the independent Brazilian offshore and ship design company

Projemar during the competition

The award winning "Maracana"

FPSO features a symmetrical ship form measuring 886 x 157 x 98 ft. (270 x 48 x 30 m) and a load capacity of 1.5 million barrels.

The UFRJ team members are:

Rodrigo Klim Gomes, Eleandro

Meira de Oliveira, Joao Alberto

Rangel de Almeida, Antonio

Goncalves de Vasconcelos Neto,

Maiza Pimenta Goular and Cas- siano Rodrigues Neves.

With Maritime Reporter & Engi- neering News serving as ISODC's official publication, the corporate sponsors for the competition were

ABS (American Bureau of Shipping),

Conoco and Projemar.

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