Composite material technology for next-generation Marine Vessel Propellers

CoPropel提出了一种全面的方法来实现由先进复合材料制成的船用螺旋桨。与传统螺旋桨相比，船用复合螺旋桨在推进效率、降噪和减重方面都有提高。CoPropel项目将由来自研究和工业领域的跨学科专家组成，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，伦敦布鲁内尔大学和保加利亚船舶流体动力学中心；4个工业合作伙伴- Loiretech， MECA， Danaos和Glafcos Marine，以及一家认证机构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螺旋桨，并将其推向市场。拟议的活动将使我们的技术准备等级成熟到5-6级，并大大降低了研究解决方案与未来产品的集成风险，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。作为CoPropel项目的一部分，我们将在实时海上试验中证实，全尺寸船舶螺旋桨的潜在节约成本预计将达到15%。

CoPropel puts forth a holistic approach towards the realisation of marine propellers made of advanced composite materials. Compared to their traditional counterparts, marine composite propellers offer efficiency gains in propulsion efficiency, noise reduction and weight savings. The CoPropel project will see an interdisciplinary team of experts drawn both from research and industry, from theoretical considerations and numerical modelling to precision manufacturing - assembly and experimental verification testing. The CoPropel action brings together 9 organisations from 5 countries: 4 Research Institutes – TWI, University of Ioannina, Brunel University London and The Bulgarian Ship Hydrodynamics Centre; 4 Industrial partners – Loiretech, MECA, Danaos and Glafcos Marine with one certification body Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore. Together, we will develop and bring to market a marine composite propeller with an embedded structural health monitoring system. The proposed activities will mature our Technology Readiness Level to 5-6 and drastically de-risk the integration of the investigated solutions on future products, effectively resulting in reducing the direct operating costs for the operators while minimising the environmental impact. Potential savings for full-scale marine vessel propellers are projected to reach 15% and will be confirmed during our real-time sea trials as part of the CoPropel project.