Kongsberg Maritime rolls out choice assist system for vessel optimisation

Norwegian maritime know-how group Kongsberg Maritime (KM) has launched EcoAdvisor, an clever and dynamic choice assist system for optimising a variety of vessel operations.

The system is an consequence of a joint ‘Clever Effectivity’ analysis undertaking between KM, DOF Subsea, Sintef, NORCE and Innovation Norway aimed toward growing applied sciences to watch and scale back greenhouse gasoline (GHG) emissions throughout vessel operations.

EcoAdvisor screens the vessel operation and its atmosphere, together with energy technology, propulsion, environmental forces and management system dynamics.

It’s mentioned to allow operators to realize reductions in gas, emissions and upkeep prices, with out compromising vessel redundancy margins or vessel operational effectivity.

With stricter laws and a worldwide want for the business to function as sustainably as potential, EcoAdvisor offers dwell recommendation on how ship homeowners can scale back their carbon footprint while on the similar time lowering OPEX, KM mentioned.

The system works by amassing and analysing real-time knowledge from numerous techniques onboard corresponding to dynamic positioning (DP), built-in automation techniques (IAS), and navigation and energy administration techniques (PMS).

This knowledge is handed by way of a non-linear optimisation solver to seek out the optimum arrange of the ability plant for the present environmental situations, contemplating the demand from numerous customers together with thrusters, mission gear and lodge masses. The optimum load reference for engines and state of cost reference for batteries is computed based mostly on their effectivity and energy loss.

In accordance with Odd Hagen, VP of Offshore Gross sales at Kongsberg Maritime, the historical past log and reporting capabilities in EcoAdvisor can be utilized to find out the Power Effectivity Present Ship Index (EEXI), the Power Effectivity Operational Indicator (EEOI) and Carbon Depth Indicator (CII) to make sure compliance with the IMO.

EcoAdvisor additionally features a Voyage Power Calculator (VEC) characteristic for transit operation, which helps the operator to find out the entire vitality consumption for various velocity profiles together with added resistance resulting from wind, wave and present for chosen routes based mostly on the climate forecast.

This permits operators to resolve the optimum velocity with minimal gas vitality consumption for a selected journey, based on their departure/arrival time necessities.

DOF Subsea at present has ‘Clever Effectivity’ pilot schemes operating on two of its vessels, Skandi Vega and Skandi Africa, and is anticipating optimistic knowledge from these.

“We see there’s potential for each financial savings and discount of greenhouse gasoline emissions, and if the end result from the pilot vessels is as anticipated, we anticipate that this will likely be put in on a bigger a part of our fleet”, Arnstein Kløvrud, SVP of Expertise & Built-in Options at DOF.

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