Project description
Advanced technologies for greenhouse gas emission reduction in vessels
The waterborne transport sector, one of the largest contributors to emissions, requires technologies to enhance efficiency and reduce emissions. The EU-funded SEASTARS project aims to lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 30 % by 2030 (compared to 2008 levels) and improve energy efficiency by 20 % (relative to 2022) across eight vessel designs, including four retrofits and four new builds for inland, short-distance, and high-seas shipping. The project will deploy innovative technologies such as propeller-hull optimisation, air lubrication, fuel cells, electric motors, solar panels, and alternative fuels like biofuels, hydrogen, and ammonia. Using Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), SEASTARS will enable shipowners to evaluate emissions and efficiency, develop decarbonisation strategies, and make well-informed investment decisions.
Objective
SEASTARS main objective is to demonstrate a well-to-wake GHG emissions reduction of minimum 30% by 2030 (compared to 2008) as well as a 20% energy efficiency improvement (compared to 2022 reference performance) on eight market-ready vessel designs (4 retrofits and 4 newbuilds) addressing inland, short and high-seas shipping by combining different emission reduction and efficiency improvement technologies that will be market ready by the end of the EU project. The project aims at incorporating different technical efficiency measures directly related to the vessels hydrodynamic, by propeller-hull optimization and air lubrication implementation, the vessels machinery, by selecting different technologies such as fuel cells, electric motors, integrated solar panels, sails and electrochemical storage systems, and the vessels Energy, by exploring different alternative fuels such as biofuels, hydrogen, methanol, LNG, ammonia and different energy treatment systems like fuel preparation, fuel reforming, cold ironing, pre-combustion and post-combustion Carbone Capture Storage (CCS).
Through the use of an advanced design methodology derived from Systems Engineering (SE), known as Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and a phased assembly-to-order approach, SEASTARS will help shipowners not only to evaluate the vessels emission reduction and efficiency enhancement but also to generate appropriate action-time plans for the decarbonization process and to quantify the related investment decisions, so to adapt their fleet to be always in line with the imposed regulation. Emission reduction and efficiency improvement technologies are designed as modules that can be added, scaled up or replaced in phases over time into a ship that is designed in a flexible and traceable way, enabling decreasing emissions progressively while maintaining a reasonable investment risk, controlled by the shipowners.
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.2.5 - Climate, Energy and Mobility
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HORIZON.2.5.7 - Clean, Safe and Accessible Transport and Mobility
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HORIZON.2.5.6 - Industrial Competitiveness in Transport
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HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL5-2024-D5-01
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G1 1XQ Glasgow
United Kingdom
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