Transition to hydrogen powered ocean-going and short-sea shipping with enabling retrofit technologies (TransShip)

该项目旨在研究氢动力远洋和短途船舶的技术和经济可行性，作为现有船舶的改造解决方案，与创新的节能设备相结合，将有助于实现英国政府在海事2050路线图计划中设定的零排放，清洁航运的未来目标。该项目财团汇集了来自学术界和工业界的强大员工队伍，他们充满激情和知识，通过首先审查可改装氢动力推进装置的技术和经济可行性来开发拟议的技术。该项目解决了许多挑战，以确保可行性研究涵盖了拟议技术的所有方面，如技术、经济、安全和立法方面的挑战，这些挑战必须考虑到严格和勤奋的可行性研究。该项目财团的目标是整合船舶应用的使能技术。将研究四个关键领域的创新，包括船上氢气储存，氢动力船舶的节能解决方案，氢动力船舶的优化动力系统以及用于峰值跳跃的多化学电池系统。结合新型节能装置的改进型氢动力推进可行性审查将以项目选定的目标船为基础进行研究，收集总体布置、推进系统、动力信息等数据，形成后续研究的数据库。我们将对船上氢存储解决方案进行审查，目的是为氢动力推进系统的安全、功能和经济改造制定最佳解决方案。此外，将研究将节能设备引入氢动力船舶的影响，以减少能源需求，在各种操作条件和海况下平滑轴功率，降低氢储存和动力的门槛，并最终实现氢兼容动力系统。然后对船舶动力系统进行设计、分析和优化，从而预测船东运营商的资本支出和运营成本，并评估风险，例如关键能力差距。在初始数据收集中选择的目标船舶的详细设计将进行，目的是探索开发的技术作为可改装解决方案的可行性，特别关注水动力、水静力学和结构要求。最后，将在斯特拉斯克莱德大学的开尔文流体动力学实验室（KHL）和埃克塞特大学的未来清洁移动中心对拟议技术进行测试验证和演示。

This project aims to research the technical and economic feasibility of hydrogen powered ocean-going and short-sea shipping vessels as a retrofit solution on existing vessels, which, combined with innovative energy saving devices, will contribute to the zero-emission, clean shipping future goal set out by the UK Government in the Maritime2050 route map plan. The project consortium brings together a strong workforce from both academia and industry with a passion and knowledge to develop the proposed technology by first reviewing the technical and economic feasibility of retrofittable hydrogen-powered propulsion. The project addresses a multitude of challenges to ensure the feasibility study covers all aspects of the proposed technology such as technical, economic, safety and legislative challenges that must be considered for a rigorous and diligent feasibility study.The project consortium targets the integration of the enabling technologies for ship application. Innovations in four key areas will be investigated, including onboard hydrogen storage, energy saving solutions for hydrogen powered ship, optimised powertrain for hydrogen ship and multi-chemistry battery system for peak lopping.The feasibility review of retrofittable hydrogen-powered propulsion combined with novel energy saving devices will be based on a target vessel selected in the project and made available for research, where data collection such as general arrangement, propulsion system and powering information will be collected to form a database for the following research. The hydrogen onboard storage solutions will be reviewed with the aim to formulise the best solution for safe, functional, and economical retrofit of hydrogen powered propulsion. In addition, the impact of introducing energy saving devices to hydrogen powered ships will be investigated to reduce the energy demand, to smooth the shaft power in various operating conditions and sea states, to lower the bar for hydrogen storage and powering and to finally enable a hydrogen compatible powertrain. The vessel powertrain with then be designed, analysed and optimised, where CapEx and OpEx costs for the owner operator will be forecasted and risks estimated such as critical capability gaps. The detailed design for the target vessel selected in the initial data collection will be conducted with the aim to explore the feasibility of the developed technology as a retrofittable solution with particular focus on hydrodynamic, hydrostatic and structural requirements. Lastly, testing validation and demonstration of the proposed technologies will be conducted at the Kelvin Hydrodynamics Laboratory (KHL), University of Strathclyde, and the Centre for Future Clean Mobility, University of Exeter.