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力推进技术扩散（WPT）的3个问题。1。绩效：Spaera已开发并正在精炼和申请专利的WPT系统，其性能特征明显高于可用产品 - 该项目将通过验证的虚拟方法以及该概念的运营，商业和法规适用性证明绩效。2。透明度：WPT的当前早期采用者在预测和交付的绩效之间存在短缺。与南安普敦大学合作，该项目将通过复杂的计算流体动力学（CFD）建模来改善虚拟WPT评估技术，与物理测试相关，以确保准确性。更高的虚拟评估精度也将有助于开发更高的性能WPT设备3。现实世界中的适用性：评估给定风速，风角和海态的交付性能只是难题的一部分。将这些信息推断在船只的实际任务概况中，以确定总燃料节省，减少和操作影响是了解WPT现实世界中适用性的重要组成部分。该项目将使用复杂的路线分析，最高的忠诚天气输入以及无与伦比的虚拟船只性能预测，以显示WPT在船只的个人航行和终生中的准确影响，以及通过多目标路线优化的进一步储蓄。这些分析将与通过项目合作伙伴Scotline Ltd的现实世界船舶运行的准确性相关。WPT的采用对于运输行业到2050年至关重要。倒入化石燃料替代品遭受较低的能量密度，缺乏基础设施和可用性，高成本以及产生意外负面后果的潜力 - 例如，液化天然气的逃亡甲烷排放，二氧化碳的预热潜力比燃料燃烧的268倍的耐热量高出87倍，从而使268倍的燃烧量高268倍，从而提供了比CO2更大的热量（IPCC）。此外，替代燃料的制造还增加了能源使用和排放。要达到零净值，我们需要大幅度减少储存船只所需的能量量。WPT充当直接的能源，降低船上的存储负担，产生零排放，不需要基础设施，存储或持续的能源供应成本。在适用的海事舰队中，WPT的使用能够直接节省超过3亿吨的二氧化碳及其同等温室气体，并且可以通过在商业和运营上补偿未来燃料的短缺来实现真正的净零。