Feasibility study - to explore Net Carbon Zero vessel solutions on the Thames

该提案由英国宇航系统公司、科瑞和鬼魂船厂组成的团队在创新英国清洁海事示范竞赛(STRAND 1)下提交，是一项初步的可行性研究，将为一支最多25艘自动推进驳船的开发和未来运营提供信息并降低风险，该船队的动力来自肯特郡贝尔维代尔的一个废物处理厂产生的废物能源。这项研究将评估扩展由此产生的岸边收费基础设施以向第三方河流用户提供服务的潜力。这将降低运营商的进入门槛，考虑摆脱化石燃料，并加快更广泛的泰晤士河生态系统的脱碳，以帮助实现政府2050年净零温室气体目标。这项可行性研究将解决泰晤士河未来低碳海上交通面临的技术、运营和监管问题，那里复杂的城市环境使岸边充电基础设施成为一个特别的障碍，而且河流的潮汐性质给船舶能源配置带来了额外的复杂性。这项研究将评估各种系统选项，然后勾勒出详细的实施路线图。该项目将重点放在可能的情况下整合现有技术，但确定技术差距和建议的解决方案，以及如何以及何时将这些纳入开发路线图。我们认识到一些技术目前比其他技术还不成熟，路线图将阐明随着技术成熟和监管需求的变化，这些技术如何随着时间的推移过渡到解决方案中。可行性研究的关键成功标准将是制定开发路线图，为具体的商业部署奠定基础，以及下一阶段的完全成本计划，这是一个单船示范和评估系统。CORY实施的预期温室气体减排良好到尾声温室气体减少54,765吨二氧化碳，基于在15年的运营寿命内用来自废物的能源取代船用柴油。在岸边基础设施服务的推动下，将这些概念推广到泰晤士河沿岸的其他运营商，可能会在同一时间框架内将这一数字增加到20万吨。

This proposal, submitted by a team comprising BAE Systems, Cory and Wight Shipyard under the Innovate UK Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition (Strand 1) is an initial feasibility study that will inform and de-risk the development and future operation of a fleet of up to 25 autonomous, self-propelled barges, powered by energy-from-waste generated by a waste processing plant in Belvedere, Kent. The study will assess the potential to extend the resulting shore-side charging infrastructure to provide a service to third party river users. This will reduce the barriers to entry for operators considering the transition away from fossil fuels and accelerating the decarbonisation of the wider Thames ecosystem to help achieve the government's 2050 net zero greenhouse gas target.This feasibility study will address the technical, operational and regulatory issues facing future low carbon marine traffic on the River Thames, where the complex city environment makes shore-side charging infrastructure a particular barrier, and where the tidal nature of the river brings additional complexity to vessel energy profiles. The study will cover an appraisal of various system options before outlining a detailed implementation roadmap.The project will focus on the integration of existing technologies where possible, but identify technology gaps and proposed solutions, together with how and when these will be embodied into the exploitation roadmap. We recognise that some technologies are currently less mature than others and the roadmap will articulate how these technologies can transition into the solution over time as technical maturity and regulatory appetite dictates.The key success criteria for the feasibility study will be the development of an exploitation roadmap that will lay the foundations for a concrete commercial deployment, and a fully costed plan for the next phase, which is a single vessel demonstration and evaluation system.The anticipated well-to-wake greenhouse gas reduction for the Cory implementation is 54,765 tonnes of CO2 based on the replacement of marine diesel with energy-from-waste over a 15 year operational lifetime. Extension of these concepts across other Thames operators facilitated by shore-side infrastructure as a service could increase this to 200,000 tonnes in the same timeframe.