Royston Diesel Power has secured funding support in collaboration with Newcastle University’s School of Marine Science & Technology from the UK’s innovation agency Innovate UK for its flagship £1.5 million Managing Energy on Marine Vessels technology program.
The three-year program will aim to develop a ship energy monitoring and usage system to facilitate optimum performance with environmental best practise during operation.
Under the program, a physical monitoring system integrated with dedicated software will measure energy usage and consumption in an effort to understand completely the complex energy flows around a ship for efficiency improvements. Furthermore, the system will aim to prevent catastrophic faults and failures through early warning diagnostics.
Lawrence Brown, Managing Director of Royston Diesel Power commented: “The Managing Energy on Marine Vessels program is ambitious and challenging as the performance of one system within a vessel is under the influence of many other interconnected systems, all of which effect the whole-vessel energy usage.”
He continued: “The project will push boundaries and allow us to develop new methodologies and technologies. The collaboration with Newcastle University is particularly important from a research standpoint and allows the project to benefit the wider marine and academic community as a whole.”
Svitzer, Topaz and CalMac Ferries are also collaborative partners on the project and will provide small and large ships for testing during the development of the program.
