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Zero-emission vessel as a part of North Adriatic marine transport

Stricter global environmental standards and pollution reduction demands require new and innovative efforts to reduce environmental impact created by marine transport. With relatively large increases in fuel prices, newly established environmental restrictions and green approach to shipping, it has become ever more necessary to find and implement new environmentally friendly strategies, technologies and ship designs. Application of green energy storage technologies in marine coastal transportation has the potential to enable true emission-free ship operation, particularly in pollution sensitive locations, such as ports, harbours or highly populated coastal areas. As propulsion and power generation systems are one of the main pollution sources on board a vessel, diversification of ship’s electrical energy production systems together with implementation of zero-emission technologies, can allow for better pollution mitigation and reduction of overall environmental impact. Vessels such as ferries, that service short and medium distance transit lines are particularly suited for implementation of such green solutions due to precisely known transport schedules and docking times. This in turn allows for precise knowledge of necessary vessel shore support systems like shore grid availability or power rating capability. Implementation of hybrid and fully electric vessels has already been successfully implemented in Norway but in order to adapt and develop suitable solutions for North Adriatic marine transport, it is necessary to take into consideration relevant local parameters like route planning, transit times, docking schedules and overall ship and shore power requirements. This paper presents some of the challenges and findings from Interreg METRO project that are relevant for energy assessment and power system development of hybrid and fully electric vessels for environmentally friendly coastal and intercoastal North Adriatic marine transport.

North Adriatic ; marine transport ; zero-emission ; green energy

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