Speaker
Description
It is understood that progress towards climate neutrality of waterborne transport can be achieved more quickly by means of retrofitting solutions on existing assets, to improve the performance of the fleet, whilst solutions that are exclusive to new ships can be implemented at the pace of the given fleet renewal. This makes more sense when taking into consideration the comparatively long-life cycles of waterborne assets, and the current need of achieving quick and tangible results.
Therefore, the EU-funded Retrofit55 project, short for RETROFIT SOLUTIONS TO ACHIEVE 55% GHG REDUCTION BY 2030, is aimed at developing a combination of energy-saving solutions that can be adopted in retrofitting focused at achieving at least 35% of GHG emissions compared to the original design. Two new technologies, i.e., wind assisted ship propulsion and an innovative air lubrication system, will be developed together with other solutions that, although based on already mature technologies, such as operational and hydrodynamic design optimization and ship electrification, have to be expanded to be integrated with the new solutions as well as to cope with the constraints posed by the original ship design.
The final objective of RETROFIT55 is to create an advanced web-based Decision Support System (DSS), that fuses together digital twins of the different systems into an integrated digital ship model. The DSS will feature a catalogue of retrofitting solutions that are up-to-date and ready to be deployed at the end of the project and will enable the user to configure the retrofitting by combining different options which are suitable for the specific ship type and comparing them in terms of life-cycle cost, return-of-investment and several KPIs, such as EEXI, CII.
The consortium brings together universities and research institutions, three developers of the new technologies, a ship design office, software developers, ICT experts, a classification society, a ship-repair company, and two large ship operators.
References
https://www.retrofit55.eu/
| Keywords | Emission reduction; Decision Support System; Operational optimization; Ship electrification, Retrofitting, Energy efficiency, Air Lubrication, Wind-Assisted Propulsion |
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