Acronym EfficientShip
Category
Fisheries
Title Demonstration of an innovative ORC module to improve the efficiency of European fishing vessels Programme LIFE
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
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Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source European Coordinator Arthur Leroux Coordinator email arthur.leroux@enogia.com
Coordinator institution
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Institutions involved
IFPEN - IFP Energies nouvelles (France) ,
KFO - Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation (Ireland) ,
CNR-ISMAR - National Research Council; Institute of Marine Sciences (Italy) ,
Start year 2014 End year 2018 Funding (€) € 1,245,666 Website https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/life/publicWebsite/index.cfm?fuseaction=search.dspPage&n_proj_id=4869&docType=pdf Summary The LIFE+ EfficientShip project will demonstrate the efficiency of an innovative technology for reducing the GHG emissions of thermal engines - for power rates from 300kW to 2MW - by 5-10%.
This ambitious environmental objective will be coupled with both economic and societal concerns, respecting the principles of the sustainable development and of the green and blue growth. The EfficientShip solution will specifically interest the majority of European fishing vessels, offering a solution for sustaining an important economic activity, endangered by the increase of fuel costs.
The main project’s stakes are:
1- To adapt an innovative heat recovery technology (ORC) to mobile thermal engines, allowing the reduction of between 5 to 10% of the GHG emissions. The interest in ORC is growing for the past few years, with different applications in heavy industries or biomass production centers, working with power rates of several decades of MW.
The project will develop and demonstrate the first example of ORC module adapted to mobile engines, working with power rates under 1MW.
2- To allow the sustainability of an endangered European cultural socio-economic activity by offering an efficient solution for facing the current increase of fuel costs. Considering the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy, the issue of feedstock will be fixed in 2017, and the question of operating costs will then constitute the major challenge for the fishing industries.
3- To raise awareness of the European fishing sector on the importance of the reduction of the vessels GHG emissions in a context of global warming and to offer them some simulation on the adaptation of the EfficientShip innovation on their vessels.
Keywords
Fuel consumption;
Engineering;
Fishing technology;
Marine Region
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Not associated to marine areas
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