ZERO
Building the engine room of the future together
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With the ZERO JIP we prepared ourselves, as maritime sector, for the challenges we are facing in the maritime energy transition. The objective was to design, build and test a prototype ‘Engine Room of the Future’ to ensure reliable future operations in realistic conditions. The ZERO JIP ended January 2025 but several follow-ups have been identified.
ZERO JIP follow-ups are under investigation. Several topics are identified:
BACKGROUND
The energy transition and decarbonisation of the maritime sector is well underway. New (IMO and other) regulations will transform ship propulsion to carbon neutral and ultimately zero emission operations. This creates business opportunities, but is also very challenging. It raises many questions and uncertainties. Given the relatively long life cycle of ships, upcoming choices for ship owners, shipyards and naval architects are difficult to make. What will be the fuels of the next decade, how energy will be stored on board, distributed and managed, which power system will impose itself and fulfil the ambitions, which bunkering will be available in most harbours? MARIN is proposing the ZERO JIP to prepare ourselves as maritime sector for these questions together.
- HAZID, Approval In Principle, class approval and authority acceptance of new PPE technologies. This continues where WP3 of ZERO ended.
- Power & Energy System integration and optimization of the Power Management Systems and Energy Management Systems: This continue where WP5 of ZERO ended.
- Human centered design and operation: Make the step to on board decision support systems and training. Possible feedback loop to the Power & Energy system design stage to improve system performance.
BACKGROUND
The energy transition and decarbonisation of the maritime sector is well underway. New (IMO and other) regulations will transform ship propulsion to carbon neutral and ultimately zero emission operations. This creates business opportunities, but is also very challenging. It raises many questions and uncertainties. Given the relatively long life cycle of ships, upcoming choices for ship owners, shipyards and naval architects are difficult to make. What will be the fuels of the next decade, how energy will be stored on board, distributed and managed, which power system will impose itself and fulfil the ambitions, which bunkering will be available in most harbours? MARIN is proposing the ZERO JIP to prepare ourselves as maritime sector for these questions together.
Contact
Christian Veldhuis
Manager
BUDGET
The participation fee is 50k Euro and 30k Euro for SME. With 1M Euro TKI investment we aim for a total budget of 2M Euro with 20 participants. There is no limit to the number of participants.
PLANNING
The first informative meeting was organised in March 2020 showing the highligths of the ZERO JIP initiative. The presentations can be found here. The project kickeded off October 2020 and ended January 2025.
PARTICIPANTS
So far the following companies and organisations participate: Dutch Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO), the Dutch National Shipping Organisation (Rijksrederij), Royal Boskalis Westminster, Bureau Veritas, DAMEN, MTU Rolls-Royce, Sanlorenzo, Oceanco, Royal IHC, Port of Rotterdam, Navantia, Vale, Jumbo Shipping, Multi Engineering, Pon Power (including RH Marine and Bakker Sliedrecht), ENGIE, Mauric, Sea Green Engineering, Wärtsilä, Conoco Phillips and MARIN.
MARINE POWER PROPULSION AND ENERGY SYSTEMS
MARIN provides services for the specification, concept design and testing of new Power Propulsion and Energy systems. The focus is on the capabilities, functioning, performance, reliability and safety of these integrated systems. If and how the building groups of the systems fit in the bunker and machinery spaces of future ships is part of the concept design service. Our knowledge on hydrodynamics is utilised by incorporating the interaction of the ships external dynamics in the power, propulsion and energy systems. For testing of capabilities, functioning and performances of the systems MARIN has a fully equipped Zero Emission Laboratory and a digital twin for performing full integrated system simulations. www.marin.nl/en/markets/marine-systems/marine-ppe-systems
The participation fee is 50k Euro and 30k Euro for SME. With 1M Euro TKI investment we aim for a total budget of 2M Euro with 20 participants. There is no limit to the number of participants.
PLANNING
The first informative meeting was organised in March 2020 showing the highligths of the ZERO JIP initiative. The presentations can be found here. The project kickeded off October 2020 and ended January 2025.
PARTICIPANTS
So far the following companies and organisations participate: Dutch Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO), the Dutch National Shipping Organisation (Rijksrederij), Royal Boskalis Westminster, Bureau Veritas, DAMEN, MTU Rolls-Royce, Sanlorenzo, Oceanco, Royal IHC, Port of Rotterdam, Navantia, Vale, Jumbo Shipping, Multi Engineering, Pon Power (including RH Marine and Bakker Sliedrecht), ENGIE, Mauric, Sea Green Engineering, Wärtsilä, Conoco Phillips and MARIN.
MARINE POWER PROPULSION AND ENERGY SYSTEMS
MARIN provides services for the specification, concept design and testing of new Power Propulsion and Energy systems. The focus is on the capabilities, functioning, performance, reliability and safety of these integrated systems. If and how the building groups of the systems fit in the bunker and machinery spaces of future ships is part of the concept design service. Our knowledge on hydrodynamics is utilised by incorporating the interaction of the ships external dynamics in the power, propulsion and energy systems. For testing of capabilities, functioning and performances of the systems MARIN has a fully equipped Zero Emission Laboratory and a digital twin for performing full integrated system simulations. www.marin.nl/en/markets/marine-systems/marine-ppe-systems
use cases
We defined 8 Use Cases with corresponding operational sailing conditions. For every Use Case we defined a specific design challenge that sets the desired emission reduction level in relation to its operational capabilities.
