Ship energy efficiency technologies

Ship energy efficiency has recently become essential and crucial to the global shipping industries due to strict regulations, increasing operation cost and fierce competition. New technologies and innovative solutions have been widely applied to ship designing, building, retrofitting and operation processes in the last decades, which, however, rarely resulted in expected energy efficiency increases in practice due to lack of system-level consideration. How to assure new technology solutions to achieve the designed performances at a ship level is still a big challenge.
To meet the challenge, we have previously developed a ship energy flow simulation platform which gave us valuable insights in system-level ship energy efficiency optimization. The SET project will employ the simulation platform to utilize new energy-saving technologies and to seek new innovative ways to improve ship overall energy efficiency. The focus is not only on instant improvements of the energy efficiency of three selected case ships but also on long-term potential for optimal energy efficient ship solutions.
As a result, the project will strengthen the cooperation between the Finnish marine industries and research institutes, advance the whole consortium’s knowledge and practices in ship energy efficiency optimization, and generate substantial profits for partners’ businesses. This will improve the Finnish long-term competitiveness and competence in the global shipping industries and also have significant impacts on the marine industries socially, ecologically and environmentally.