Project description
Setting sail for carbon neutral ships
Conventional ship design cannot easily adopt most energy-saving innovations. Smart energy management is essential in a unified ship system, as the solution for carbon neutral ships is derived from several energy sources. The EU-funded OPTIWISE project proposes two solutions, which, when combined, deliver savings beyond 30 % when the innovations are delivered as proposed. This is in terms of wind propulsion with a rigorous, holistic optimised ship design, control, and operation, including a change in conventional propeller propulsion. The project will apply the combined solutions to 3 demonstration cases, a bulk carrier, a tanker, and a passenger vessel, and verify the results by testing a rotor sail rig, model tests on two ships, and bridge simulations with crew training.
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HORIZON-AG - HORIZON Action Grant Budget-BasedCoordinator
6708 PM Wageningen
Netherlands
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Participants (8)
341 00 Halkida
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400 22 Goteborg
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75010 Paris
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
44600 Saint Nazaire
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3825 JN Amersfoort
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
8017 JR Zwolle
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16126 Genova
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2000 Antwerp
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76600 Le Havre
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17674 Kallithea Athens
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185 37 Piraeus
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WC2H 9JQ London
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EC3N 3AA London
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