Supercharging Wind Propulsion: Advancing Digital tools in maritime to deliver real world performance in a next generation Wind Propulsion Design

增压风力推进：推进海事领域的数字工具，在下一代风力推进设计中提供真实的性能

• 批准号: 10093454
• 金额: $ 108.66万
• 依托单位: SPAERA LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10093454
• 关键词: Supercharging; Wind; Propulsion; Advancing; Digital

This project tackles 3 issues surrounding the proliferation of Wind Propulsion Technology (WPT).1. Performance: Spaera has developed and is in the process of refining and patenting a novel WPT system with significantly greater performance characteristics than available offerings - this project will demonstrate that performance through validated virtual methods, as well as the concept's operational, commercial, and regulatory suitability.2. Transparency: Current early adopters of WPT are seeing a shortfall between predicted and delivered performance. In collaboration with the University of Southampton, this project will improve virtual WPT assessment techniques through sophisticated Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modelling, correlated to physical testing to ensure accuracy. Greater virtual assessment accuracy will also aid in the development of higher performance WPT devices.3. Real-World Applicability: Assessing the delivered performance for a given wind-speed, wind-angle and sea state is only piece of the puzzle. Extrapolating this information across a vessel's actual mission profile to determine the total fuel savings, emission reductions, and operational impacts is an important component of understanding the real-world applicability of WPT. This project will use sophisticated route analysis, highest fidelity weather input, and unsurpassed virtual vessel performance prediction to show accurate impacts of WPT across a vessel's individual voyages and lifetime, as well as the further savings possible through multi-objective route optimisation. These analyses will be correlated for accuracy to real world vessel operation through project partners Scotline ltd.The adoption of WPT is critical for the shipping industry to reach net-zero by 2050\. Drop-in fossil-fuel replacements suffer from lower energy density, lack of infrastructure and availability, high cost, and the potential for unintended negative consequences - such as fugitive methane emissions from LNG, delivering 87 times greater warming potential than CO2, or N2O from combustion of ammonia, delivering 268 times greater warming potential than CO2 (IPCC). Additionally, the manufacturing of alternative fuels adds further energy use and emissions. To reach net zero, we need to drastically reduce the amount of energy a vessel is required to store.WPT acts as a direct energy source, lowering the onboard energy storage burden, produces zero emissions and requires no infrastructure, storage or ongoing energy supply costs. Across the applicable maritime fleet, the use of WPT has the capability of annually saving over 300 million tonnes of CO2 and its equivalent GHGs directly, and will allow true net zero to be achievable by compensating for the shortfalls of future fuels commercially and operationally.

该项目解决了围绕风推进技术(WPT)扩散的3个问题。性能：Spaera已经开发了一种新型的WPT系统，并正在对其进行改进和申请专利，该系统具有比现有产品显著更好的性能特性-该项目将通过经过验证的虚拟方法以及概念的操作、商业和监管适用性来展示这种性能。透明度：当前WPT的早期采用者看到预测的性能与交付的性能之间存在差距。该项目将与南安普顿大学合作，通过复杂的计算流体动力学(CFD)建模改进虚拟WPT评估技术，并将其与物理测试相关联，以确保准确性。更高的虚拟评估准确性也将有助于开发更高性能的WPT设备。现实世界的适用性：评估在给定风速、风角和海况下的交付性能只是谜题的一部分。在舰船的实际任务范围内外推这些信息，以确定总的燃料节约、减排和运营影响，是了解WPT在现实世界中适用性的重要组成部分。该项目将使用复杂的航线分析、最高保真度的天气输入和无与伦比的虚拟船舶性能预测，以显示WPT对船舶各个航程和寿命的准确影响，以及通过多目标航线优化可能进一步节省的成本。这些分析将通过项目合作伙伴Scotline Ltd与真实世界的船舶运营相关联。WPT的采用对于航运业到2050年实现净零至关重要。替代化石燃料的能源密度较低，缺乏基础设施和可用性，成本较高，并可能产生意想不到的负面后果--例如液化天然气排放的甲烷逃逸，其变暖潜力是二氧化碳的87倍，或者氨燃烧产生的N2O，其变暖潜力是二氧化碳(IPCC)的268倍。此外，替代燃料的制造进一步增加了能源消耗和排放。为了达到净零排放，我们需要大幅减少船舶需要存储的能源量。WPT作为一种直接能源，降低了船上的能源存储负担，产生零排放，并且不需要基础设施、存储或持续的能源供应成本。在适用的海运船队中，使用WPT每年能够直接节省3亿多吨二氧化碳及其当量温室气体，并将通过在商业和运营上弥补未来燃料的短缺而实现真正的净零。