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Ship performances forecasting at the Mediterranean scale: evaluation of the impact of meteocean forecasts on fuel savings for energy efficiency and weather routing.
Last modified: 2015-03-27
Abstract
Sustainability and energy efficiency issues, connected to the search for fuel consumption reductions and to the more and
more mandatory international regulations regarding the emissions of atmospheric pollutants, are acquiring a growing relevance
in shipping industry. In this context, the integration of forecasting resources for meteo-marine conditions with the capability
of performing detailed ship performances simulations may give relevant contributions to improve the in service energy
efficiency of ships through the use of weather routing systems.
The work here reported has been developed in the context of the PROFUMO project, financed by the European Space
Agency, in the framework of the IAP Artes 20 Programme for Feasibility Studies. The project is aimed at improving the
performances of meteo-marine forecasting systems, at the Mediterranean scale, by exploiting meteo-marine data observed
by cooperating ships and to develope innovative weather routing applications for Mediterranean navigation, also based on
such improved forecasts.
Part of the project activities are devoted to perform numerical simulation of ship seakeeping and powering performances
along Mediterranean routes, by the use of high resolution wind-wave forecasts data produced by the operational service of
Consorzio LaMMA. With this aim, in particular a numerical model of a real Ro-Ro ship has been constructed and then
tuned by the use of in-service recorded data. The results of the numerical simulations are exploited to evaluate the potential
impact of the variability of meteo-marine forecasting skills on weather routing and to estimate the potential contribution to
fuel savings of meteorological route optimization at the Mediterranean scale.
more mandatory international regulations regarding the emissions of atmospheric pollutants, are acquiring a growing relevance
in shipping industry. In this context, the integration of forecasting resources for meteo-marine conditions with the capability
of performing detailed ship performances simulations may give relevant contributions to improve the in service energy
efficiency of ships through the use of weather routing systems.
The work here reported has been developed in the context of the PROFUMO project, financed by the European Space
Agency, in the framework of the IAP Artes 20 Programme for Feasibility Studies. The project is aimed at improving the
performances of meteo-marine forecasting systems, at the Mediterranean scale, by exploiting meteo-marine data observed
by cooperating ships and to develope innovative weather routing applications for Mediterranean navigation, also based on
such improved forecasts.
Part of the project activities are devoted to perform numerical simulation of ship seakeeping and powering performances
along Mediterranean routes, by the use of high resolution wind-wave forecasts data produced by the operational service of
Consorzio LaMMA. With this aim, in particular a numerical model of a real Ro-Ro ship has been constructed and then
tuned by the use of in-service recorded data. The results of the numerical simulations are exploited to evaluate the potential
impact of the variability of meteo-marine forecasting skills on weather routing and to estimate the potential contribution to
fuel savings of meteorological route optimization at the Mediterranean scale.
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