Kongsberg Maritime has actually released EcoAdvisor, a smart as well as vibrant choice support group for maximizing a variety of overseas vessel procedures.
“EcoAdvisor is an outcome of a joint ‘Intelligent Efficiency’ research project between Kongsberg Maritime, vessel operator DOF Subsea AS (DOF), Sintef, NORCE, and Innovation Norway, with the aim of developing technologies to monitor and reduce the GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions during vessel operations,” Kongsberg Maritime claimed.
It checks the vessel procedure as well as its atmosphere, consisting of power generation, propulsion, ecological pressures as well as control system characteristics. According to Kongsberg Maritime, EcoAdvisor allows drivers to accomplish decreases in gas, discharges as well as upkeep prices, without endangering vessel redundancy margins or vessel functional effectiveness.
“With stricter regulations and a global need for the industry to operate as sustainably as possible, EcoAdvisor provides live advice on how ship owners can reduce their carbon footprint whilst at the same time reducing OPEX,” the firm claimed.
“EcoAdvisor demonstrates clearly how a decision support tool relying on the power of digitization can help vessel operators remain competitive in a growing green market,” states, Odd Hagen, VP Offshore sales,Kongsberg Maritime “Several factors contribute to inefficiencies in maritime operations, such as multiple engines running at low utilization, load variations, and large power fluctuations due to mission equipment and thrusters. Vessel owners have found it challenging to achieve sustainable operations due to conservative requirements from charters and a lack of a holistic overview of their operations.”
“EcoAdvisor creates an intelligent and comprehensive overview of all these factors, delivering advice that enables efficient, cost-effective and sustainable solutions to be made without compromising vessel redundancy margin. Further, the history log and reporting functions in EcoAdvisor can be used to determine the Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index (EEXI) the Energy Efficiency Operational Indicator (EEOI), and Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII) to ensure compliance with the IMO.”
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How does EcoAdvisor function?
According to Kongsberg Maritime, EcoAdvisor functions by accumulating as well as assessing real-time information from different systems onboard. These consist of vibrant placing (DP), incorporated automation systems (IAS), as well as navigating as well as power administration systems (PMS). This information is travelled through a non-linear optimization solver to discover the ideal arrangement of the nuclear power plant for the existing ecological problems, taking into consideration the need from different customers, consisting of thrusters, goal devices, as well as resort tons. The ideal tons referral for engines as well as state of cost referral for batteries is calculated based upon their effectiveness as well as power loss.
Based on this evaluation, functional recommendations is given to the Captain, DP driver, as well as Chief Engineer regarding what equipment (engines, batteries as well as thrusters) can be quit to run the vessel extra successfully as well as sustainably. This recommendations is vibrant– if a modification in the mean climate condition (wind, wave, as well as existing), nuclear power plant system or DP system setups is found, EcoAdvisor’s suggestions will certainly be changed as necessary. All recommendations is supported by a system summary suggesting why these adjustments are preferable, just how any type of actions will certainly change the equilibrium in between effectiveness as well as redundancy margin, as well as what the real-time impact of the procedures are, Kongsberg Maritime describes.
Voyage Energy Calculator Determines Total Energy Consumption
EcoAdvisor consists of a Voyage Energy Calculator (VEC) attribute for transportation procedure. This aids the driver to identify the complete power intake for differing rate accounts, consisting of included resistance because of wind, wave as well as existing for picked courses based upon the weather report. This enables drivers to make a decision the ideal rate with minimal gas power intake for a particular journey, according to their departure/arrival time needs.
Utilizing EcoAdvisor’s ingenious functions on the optimization of making use of generators, thrusters, as well as the arrangement of the nuclear power plant, while keeping as well as making sure safety and security throughout DP procedures, DOF presently has‘Intelligent Efficiency’ pilot systems operating on 2 vessels Skandi Vega & & Skandi Africa as well as are anticipating favorable information from these, Kongsberg Maritime claimed.
“We see there is potential for both savings and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and if the result from the pilot vessels is as expected, we anticipate that this will be installed on a larger part of our fleet,” says Arnstein Kløvrud SVP Technology & Integrated Solutions at DOF.”
