Description du projet
Modernisation des navires de demain
Les progrès de la science et des technologies ont permis d’adopter des solutions d’économie d'énergie appliquées aux efforts de modernisation. Dans ce contexte, le projet RETROFIT55, financé par l’UE, réduira de 35 % les émissions de gaz à effet de serre en dotant les navires de nouvelles solutions d’économie d’énergie. Plus particulièrement, il combinera des technologies matures (électrification des navires et optimisation de la conception hydrodynamique, optimisation opérationnelle) avec deux nouvelles technologies (propulsion éolienne des navires et système innovant de lubrification air). L’objectif final est de créer un système d’aide à la prise de décision qui intègre ces solutions. Celui-ci permettra aux utilisateurs de comparer les options de modernisation en termes de coût, de retour sur investissement et de performance. RETROFIT55 repose sur un consortium d’universités, d’instituts de recherche et d’exploitants de navires, en plus de faire appel à des experts dans le domaine de la conception et de la modernisation, des carburants de substitution, de l’efficacité énergétique, de l’électrification et des technologies numériques vertes.
Objectif
The proposal develops a combination of energy-saving solutions that can be adopted in retrofitting aimed at achieving the 35% of GHG emissions. 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 easily extendable afterward while developed and demonstrated at TRL 7-8, suitable for different ship types and operational contexts. The DSS 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.
Referring to the ZEWT strategy, while primarily contributing to the Design and Retrofit, the implementation of the project will also intersect other topics, such as Use of Sustainable Alternative fuels, Energy Efficiency, Electrification and Digital Green.
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.
Champ scientifique
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectrical engineeringpower engineeringelectric power distribution
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringapplied mechanics
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringnaval engineeringsea vessels
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HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation ActionsCoordinateur
00185 Roma
Italie