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ExpectedOutcome:Project outputs and results are expected to contribute concretely to the following expected outcomes as marked (“*”) whilst supporting the overall medium and longer term objectives:
Ensure that the transitional deployment of LNG fuel does not increase GHG emissions but maximises its potential to contribute to climate neutrality.Strengthening the European leadership in LNG technologies, allowing for a transitional sustainable use of LNG where it is beneficial.*At least one full scale demonstrator for full methane slip abatement for a vessel in operation.*Development and practical demonstration of technical abatement solutions both for retrofitted vessels and new builds, covering a range of operational scenarios.*Where still necessary and duly justified quantification of methane slip founded upon both in-situ measurements and consolidated pre-existing validated test results in the public domain addressing a range of LNG engine types and load factors, including dynamic loads as, for example, encountered in manoeuvring.
Scope:Nearly all commercial vessels in operation today have a power generation based on one or more Internal Combustion Engines (IC...
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ExpectedOutcome:Project outputs and results are expected to contribute concretely to the following expected outcomes as marked (“*”) whilst supporting the overall medium and longer term objectives:
Ensure that the transitional deployment of LNG fuel does not increase GHG emissions but maximises its potential to contribute to climate neutrality.Strengthening the European leadership in LNG technologies, allowing for a transitional sustainable use of LNG where it is beneficial.*At least one full scale demonstrator for full methane slip abatement for a vessel in operation.*Development and practical demonstration of technical abatement solutions both for retrofitted vessels and new builds, covering a range of operational scenarios.*Where still necessary and duly justified quantification of methane slip founded upon both in-situ measurements and consolidated pre-existing validated test results in the public domain addressing a range of LNG engine types and load factors, including dynamic loads as, for example, encountered in manoeuvring.
Scope:Nearly all commercial vessels in operation today have a power generation based on one or more Internal Combustion Engines (ICE). Directive 2014/94/EU on the Deployment of Alternative Fuels Infrastructure defined minimum requirements for the building-up of alternative fuels infrastructure e.g. for natural gas. Currently Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG - methane) is an alternate viable marine fuel deployed to substantially reduce ship-borne pollutant emissions.
However, the impact of LNG on greenhouse gas emissions is strongly influenced by “methane slip”, including the release of unburnt LNG from LNG-fuelled ICEs. This is a problem that is being tackled but not fully solved.
Since methane is a greenhouse gas 84 times more potent than CO2 on a 20 year basis, the potential release of unburnt methane substantially increases the fuel’s impact on climate change. Whilst it is known that operations under some engine loading conditions and with some engine types can significantly increase methane slip, there is a lack robust data on the scale of the challenge for the existing LNG fleet and for new vessels.
Projects will address the current state of the art and the scatter of emissions between different types of LNG-powered engines. Operational data on methane slip from existing engine installations will be assessed, compared and made available. Activities may include additional measurement campaigns of methane slip where necessary and duly justified, addressing the complexity of different engine types at different load factors (including highly dynamic loads) and operational profiles. Activities will lead to a better understanding of the parameters involved in order to develop the most efficient abatement strategies through ICE improvement and/or post-treatment technologies. Such activities are expected to go significantly beyond existing measuring campaigns and provide distinctively new knowledge. A repetition of measurements already made by producers of large marine engines will not be funded.
Project(s) will develop and demonstrate such strategies and the corresponding technologies for better performing ICEs and/or after treatment systems which virtually eliminate methane slip in all conditions in refitted or newly built vessels. By developing technologies also suitable for retrofitting this action will also have an impact on the existing LNG-powered fleet whilst ensuring that negative impacts on energy efficiency (potentially resulting in higher CO2 emissions) and on the suppression of pollutant emissions (in particular NOx) are avoided.
This topic implements the co-programmed European Partnership on ‘Zero Emission Waterborne Transport’ (ZEWT).
Specific Topic Conditions:Activities are expected to achieve TRL 7 by the end of the project – see General Annex B.
Cross-cutting Priorities:Co-programmed European PartnershipsOcean sustainability and blue economy
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