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SYSTEM DESIGN UPGRADES COMPLETED, TO BE RELAUNCHED IN JUNE

Published: 24 May 2019

Autor: https://theoceancleanup.com

Last September, we deployed System 001 into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – marking the first-ever attempt to start cleaning it up. During the last campaign, we confirmed many key assumptions of the design, but also encountered two unscheduled learning opportunities: the system did not maintain a sufficient speed, allowing plastic to exit the system, and a stress concentration caused a fatigue fracture in the HDPE floater (more detailed information in our Root Cause Analysis).

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Read more: https://theoceancleanup.com/updates/system-design-upgrades-completed-to-be-relaunched-in-june/

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