A Study on Anti-sessility System for Marine Structures in Consideration of Marine Environment

Experiment of prevention effect of a paint containing anti-bacterial silver ion on sessile organisms

Abstract

The present paper presents the development of an anti-fouling system for marine structures in consideration of marine environment.We produced anti-bacterial agent using silver ion. We conducted the experiment which checks whether the amount of adhesion of sessile organisms is proportional to the content of the anti-bacterial agent, in the port of a Japanese coast. From the result of the 40-Day experiment, it turned out that its amount is reduced by 80% from 40% regardless of the species of sessile organisms.