2009 Programme

Welcome by Hermann J. Klein

Fuel Efficiency Versus Safety in Ship Design

• Main dimension restrictions vs. fuel efficiency
• Optimization of designs for specific operational profiles
• How much fuel is safety allowed to cost?

Heike Billerbeck, Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, Flensburg/Germany

Energy Efficiency Design Index – EEDI

• Principles
• Base line definitions
• Application consequences

Stefan Krüger, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg/Germany

Coffee break

Cost Savings by Hydrodynamic Measures

• Reduction of speed
• Trim optimization
• Power saving devices incl. new developed pre-swirl duct

Jan Svardal, Grieg Shipping Group, Bergen/Norway; Dipl.-Ing. Friedrich Mewis, MSH, Dresden/Germany

Report from the Frontline of Energy Efficiency; Brief Summary of the
A.P. Møller-Mærsk Energy Efficiency Initiatives with-in:

• Ship design
• Retrofit
• Performance management
• Operational optimization

Ole Graa Jakobsen, Mærsk Maritime Technologies, Copenhagen/Denmark

Practical Approach to Achieve Cost Efficient Ship Operation

• Commercial aspects of voyage planning, execution, performance and scheduling
• Hydrodynamics
• Bunker management
• System tuning and efficient system operation – main engines, aux. engines, consumers
• Management and organizational embedding of the above

Rolf Ole Jensen, DNV Maritime Solutions, Høvik/Norway

Lunch

A Holistic Approach to Reduce Ship Operation Costs

• Saving potential in resistence and propulsion
• Saving potential in mainengine and auxiliaries
• Saving potential in onboard consumers
• Saving potential in operations

Volker Höppner, FutureShip GmbH, Hamburg/Germany

A CO₂ Maintenance Index for Ships (hull and propeller performance)

• Optimal intervals for hull / propeller husbandry
• Establish when to spot blast versus full-blasting of hulls
• Setting fleet targets for hull and propeller performance (CO₂ reduction metrics)

Daniel Kane, Propulsion Dynamics Inc., Long Beach/USA

Coffee break

Ship Service Performance

• Ship performance monitoring; how to measure the correct parameters and challenges faced in accuracy
• Ship in service performance analysis; reducing the scatter in the performance monitoring results
• Fouling and its effect on ship performance
• How to save fuel using performance monitoring and analysis results

Thijs Hasselaar, MARIN, Wageningen/The Netherlands

Shipboard Weather Routing – Operational Benefits

• Prevention of Damages
• Hull response monitoring
• Efficient ship scheduling
• Experience and further developments

Helge Rathje, Germanischer Lloyd AG, Hamburg/Germany

Increased Efficiency by Crew Training Simulation

• Training on new engine types
• Pre-boarding training for maneouvring very large container vessels
• Training for efficient tanker operation incl. STS activities

Heinz Kuhlmann, MTC, Marine Training Center, Hamburg/Germany

Conference dinner with keynote speaker

Fritz Vahrenholt, RWE Innogy GmbH, Essen/Germany

Gaseous Fuels – Operational Aspects

• Dual fuel or pure gas engines?
• Efficiency and exhaust gas emissions of gas driven engines
• Power supply: cold ironing or gas driven engines?

Oskar Levander, Wärtsilä Ship Design, Helsinki/Finnland

Gaseous Fuels – Safety Aspects

• Safe operation of gas engines on board of ships
• Risk analysis for gas terminals and bunkering
• New rules and regulations

Bruno Dabouis, Bureau Veritas, Paris/France

Use of Wind Energy

• Potential of the sky sail system
• First operational results
• Future developments

Stephan Brabeck, SkySails GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg/Germany

Coffee break

4 Stroke Engines – Efficiency and Exhaust Emissions

• New developments to cover new regulations
• NOX reduction by internal measures
• External exhaust gas treatment

Klaus Wirth, Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG, Kiel/Germany

2 Stroke Engines – Efficiency and Exhaust Emissions

• New developments in order to cover new exhaust gas regulations
• Gaseous fuels in 2 stroke engines?
• Low sulphur fuels – a problem in operation

Niels B. Clausen, MAN Diesel A/S, Copenhagen/Denmark

Energy Efficient Engine Room Ventilation

• Saving potentials
• Fan selection strategies
• Retrofit
• Recommended measures

Karsten C. Witt, Witt & Sohn AG, Pinneberg/Germany

Heavy Fuel Oil for Marine Engines – Fuel Additive Option for Quality Improvement

• Quality issues in HFO
• Role of fuel additive
• Case studies of additive use on land based marine engines in India

Suresh Shemoi, Neo Pecton, Mumbai/India

Farewell buffet