World Cup for Solar Powered Boats, Frisian Solar Challenge

The latest Delta Lloyd solar boat, built by a team of TU Delft students, baptized in Amsterdam last week. With this boat in July, the team defends its title in the World Cup for Solar Powered Boats in Friesland, the Frisian Solar Challenge. This time the students have opted for a revolutionary design with hydrofoils. Its wings were flying boat also has Amsterdam's waterways.
In September 2009, the team began designing this boat on solar energy. Sustainability and innovation were leading concepts here. "We want this year to get a completely new technique. We believe the future of the hydrofoils small ships, "said team leader Edwin de Vries. Students work in developing the boat along with several large shipping companies in the Netherlands including ALE, MARIN and Wärtsilä. Hydrofoils lift the boat completely out of the water, causing the boat flying across the water. Edwin says: "If we compare the new boat from 2008 with the same amount of energy we can half times as fast sailing." The team owes its strength to the new inter-faculty team composition. Previously, the team mainly of Marine Engineering students. Now you have students with different backgrounds joined forces to create a better design.

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Solar Boat TU Delft wins Frisian Solar Challenge

By Willem de Moor, Monday, June 30, 2008 4:59 p.m., views: 13,104


In the final of the Frisian Solar Challenge clears the solar-powered vessel of the TU Delft the water equivalent of the Australian solar race. The participants entered the contest at the eleven Frisian cities.

TU Delft fought with the Delta Lloyd Solar Boat Team participate in the second edition of the Frisian Solar Challenge. The race for boats powered by solar energy was first held in 2006: even when the team won the race of the Delft University. The solar racing on land which the Frisian water based version is the World Solar Challenge, all year in a row won by the team from Delft. Of a total of nine participants in the C-Class did the TU Delft team for the second time as the first line to come. The last stage was Saturday hazards: five previous stages, a sprint and a prologue entered the final stage before.

The solar boat that the team from Delft won the race, measuring 6.15 meters in length and 1.67 meters wide. The water depth is only four inches, but if the screw is included is 60 inches. The ship without a driver weighs less than ninety pounds and a top speed of 30km / h.. During the race took the Delta Lloyd Solar Boat an average speed of 20km / h with an electric efficiency of 90 percent can get. The required energy is supplied by eight square meters of solar panels, which consist of 2964 Gallium-Arsenide triple junction solar cells. This type of solar cell is used in satellites and achieves an efficiency of 25 percent and cost about thirty-five euros each.

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