Composites Application to Propulsion Systems for Upscaling and Low Emissions (CAPSULE)

正如航空业受益于使用复合材料来减少燃料排放一样，海运可以利用许多相同或更多的特性来实现清洁运输。这项可行性研究的重点是通过在海上推进系统中应用复合材料可以实现的效率节约和升级。这不仅将直接减少温室气体排放，实现向电池、燃料电池或氢气等低排放和零碳能源系统的过渡，还将增强国家海运供应链，为英国提供更多就业机会，并通过增加出口使经济受益。Teignbridge Proellers International是世界领先的青铜铸造精密性能螺旋桨、尾部齿轮和推进产品的设计和制造商。Teignbridge将应用他们的海事行业专业知识来改进螺旋桨直径达6米的可伸缩推进系统的设计和建模。国家复合材料中心作为核心的高价值制造弹射器的核心部分，旨在通过使设计和制造企业能够在复合材料应用方面提供成功的解决方案来加速英国工业产出的增长。该项目合作伙伴将带来他们的专业知识，通过材料选择、制造工艺选择、复合材料设计技术和测试指导来支持复合材料的这一新应用。这项可行性研究的主要成果将是复合材料推进系统的初步设计，最大限度地发挥复合材料的机会和好处，以提高效率，减少温室气体排放，并使低密度和零碳燃料的使用成为可能。商业化的推进系统将有助于保持英国作为主要海运国家的地位，通过针对全球向零排放航运的转变而改进和具有竞争力的产品来发展英国供应链。这将为英国带来更多的就业机会，并从增加出口中获得进一步的经济利益。该研究还将提出进入市场的路线、计划和投资要求，以将升级的推进系统设计推进到英国船只上的演示阶段。该业务案例将不仅考虑船上的排放节省，还将评估整个推进系统生命周期中使用的材料和流程，以真正了解拟议解决方案的可持续性。

In the same way that the airline industry has benefit from the use of composite materials to reduce fuel emissions, the marine transport can take advantage of many of the same characteristics and more, to enable clean shipping.This feasibility study focuses on the efficiency savings and upscaling that can be achieved through the application of composite materials across a maritime propulsion system. Not only will this directly reduce greenhouse emissions and enable the transition to low emission and zero carbon energy systems such as batteries, fuel cells or hydrogen, but it will also grow the national maritime supply chain, provide more UK jobs and benefit the economy through increased exports.Teignbridge Propellers International is a world-leading designer and manufacturer of bronze-cast precision performance propellers, stern-gear and propulsion products. Teignbridge will apply their maritime industry expertise to improved design and modelling of a scalable propulsion system with propeller diameter up to 6m.The National Composites Centre, as a core part of the core High Value Manufacturing Catapult, aim to accelerate the growth of UK industrial output by enabling design and manufacturing enterprises to deliver winning solutions in the application of composites. This project partner will bring their expertise to support this new application of composites through material selection, manufacturing process selection, composite design techniques and testing guidance.The main output of this feasibility study will be a preliminary design for a composite propulsion system, maximising the opportunities and benefits of composite materials to improve efficiency, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enable the use of low density and zero carbon fuels. The commercialised propulsion system will help maintain the UK as a major maritime nation, growing the UK supply chain through improved and competitive products that target the global shift towards zero emission shipping. This will result in more UK jobs and further economic benefits from increased exports.The study will also produce the route-to-market business case, plan and investment requirements for progressing the upscaled propulsion system design through to demonstrator phase on a UK vessel. The business case will consider not just the on-vessel emissions savings but also an assessment of the materials and processes used across the lifecycle of the propulsion system to truly understand the sustainability of the proposed solution.