Composite material technology for next-generation Marine Vessel Propellers

CoPropel提出了一种整体方法，以实现由先进复合材料制成的船用螺旋桨。与传统的螺旋桨相比，船用复合材料螺旋桨在推进效率、降低噪音和减轻重量方面具有更高的效率。CoPropel项目将由来自研究和工业的跨学科专家组成，从理论考虑和数值建模到精密制造-装配和实验验证测试。CoPropel行动汇集了来自5个国家的9个组织：4个研究机构- TWI，约阿尼纳大学，布鲁内尔大学伦敦和保加利亚船舶流体力学中心; 4个工业合作伙伴- Loiretech，MECA，Danaos和Glafcos Marine与一个认证机构Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore。我们将共同开发一种带有嵌入式结构健康监测系统的船用复合材料推进器并推向市场。拟议的活动将使我们的技术准备水平成熟到5-6，并大大降低了在未来产品上集成研究解决方案的风险，有效地降低了运营商的直接运营成本，同时最大限度地减少了对环境的影响。合作伙伴的现有工作表明，能源消耗和后续燃料消耗减少了约12%，全尺寸船舶螺旋桨的潜在节省超过15%，这将在我们的实时海上试验中进行调查和确认，作为CoPropel项目的一部分。

CoPropel puts forth a holistic approach towards the realisation of marine propellers made of advanced composite materials. Comparedto their traditional counterparts, marine composite propellers offer efficiency gains in propulsion efficiency, noise reduction and weightsavings. The CoPropel project will see an interdisciplinary team of experts drawn both from research and industry, from theoreticalconsiderations and numerical modelling to precision manufacturing - assembly and experimental verification testing. The CoPropel actionbrings together 9 organisations from 5 countries: 4 Research Institutes – TWI, University of Ioannina, Brunel University London andThe Bulgarian Ship Hydrodynamics Centre; 4 Industrial partners – Loiretech, MECA, Danaos and Glafcos Marine with one certificationbody Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore. Together, we will develop and bring to market a marine composite propeller with an embeddedstructural health monitoring system. The proposed activities will mature our Technology Readiness Level to 5-6 and drastically derisk the integration of the investigated solutions on future products, effectively resulting in reducing the direct operating costs for theoperators while minimising the environmental impact. Existing work by the partners has shown an approximate 12% reduction in energyconsumption and subsequent fuel consumption, with the potential savings exceeding 15% at full-scale marine vessel propellers, whichwill be investigated and confirmed during our real-time sea trials as part of the CoPropel project.