Flexible and modular large battery systems for safe on-board integration and operation of electric power, demonstrated in multiple type of ships
Flexible and modular large battery systems for safe on-board integration and operation of electric power, demonstrated in multiple type of ships
Project summary
FLEXSHIP will facilitate the transition of the waterborne sector towards climate neutrality by delivering a digital green concept for electrification of vessels consisting of a Green Digital Twin (GDT) for designing fit-for-purpose vessel electrical grid architectures and integrating a large battery capacity system into two existing vessel electrical systems, a compact, low-weight, modular and simple, high-efficiency battery system, and a safe integration
guide of the system onboard ensuring system interoperability
FLEXSHIP goal
The overall goal of FLEXSHIP is to develop and validate safe and reliable, flexible, modular, and scalable solutions for electrification of the waterborne sector.
Project goals includes the reliable design and development of modular battery packs; safe on-board integration including the battery system and its associated electrical distribution grid into the vessel’s existing power grid; optimal design of energy management system (EMS) to maximise the operational flexibility and energy
efficiency (both full-electric and hybrid), and smart control for improved lifetime of the battery system and critical power components.
Our business case
The worldwide shipping industry is one of the largest polluters of Greenhouse Gas (GHG), with 3 to 4% of the EU’s GHG emission and 940 million tons of CO2 per annum. It emits more carbon than the automotive and aviation industry combined, and the bulk of the carbon emissions are associated with small vessels covering short distances in river and coastal areas as compared to the larger vessels that cover longer distances.
The FLEXSHIP project’s digital green concept of electrification of vessels will be highly suitable to tackle the issue of electrifying foremost the large fleet of small to medium size ships.
Hybridisation will offer 67% reduction in heavy fuel oil/diesel oil consumption and full electrification offer zero dependence of in heavy fuel oil/diesel oil.
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Partners
FLEXSHIP Consortium represents a multidisciplinary group composed of 16 partners from 9 countries within the European Union and UK
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation program under grant agreement no. 101095863
