Objective
There is a need for fast ship transportation that is both efficient and non-polluting. Conventional propellers are known to have low efficiency. As an indicative example, most of ship propellers installed on cargo vessels waste about 40 percent of the energy in the form of rotational losses in the wake, vortex generation, noise production, cavitation, etc. The recovery of such losses is one of the major ways to contribute to a more rational, environmentally-friendly use of energy.
The main objective of the TRIPOD project is the development and validation of a new propulsion concept for improved energy efficiency of ships. The ship propulsion efficiency will be optimized through the advanced combination of three existing propulsion technologies. In particular TRIPOD explores the feasibility of a novel propulsion concept resulting from the integration of two promising EU grown technologies (podded propulsion and tip loaded endplate propellers) in combination with energy recovery based on counter-rotating propeller (CRP) principle. The three existing technologies have been used separately and are known to improve the overall ship propulsion efficiency as compared to conventional propulsion. However, they have never been combined together in a single propulsion package.
TRIPOD contemplates two types of propulsive innovations, which will be tested for the first time:
-Using CLT propellers in combination with pods
-Using CLT propellers in connection with CRP propulsion and with pods
As a result of the investigation tools will be developed to assess the optimal use of propulsive energy from environmental and economic viewpoints both for new designs and for the retrofitting of existing ships with the novel propulsion concept.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- engineering and technology environmental engineering ecosystem-based management climatic change mitigation
- engineering and technology mechanical engineering vehicle engineering naval engineering sea vessels
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FP7-SST-2010-RTD-1
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02044 VTT ESPOO
Finland
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