REFEST

Retrofitting of fishing fleets with low payback time and easy to deploy solutions for footprint and GHG emissions reduction

KLAIPEDOS UNIVERSITETAS, [KU] AIMPLAS - RISE RESEARCH INSTITUTES OF SWEDEN AB [RISE] MORSKI INSTYTUT RYBACKI - PANSTWOWY INSTYTUT BADAWCZY [MIR] NEXTHORIZON [NXH] BLUENAV [BLUENAV] EAS BATTERIES GMBH [EAS] Cálculo y Estructuras Sensadas SL [CALSENS] RINA CONSULTING SPA [RINA-C] ELKON ELEKTRIK SANAYI VE TICARET ANONIM SIRKETI [ELKON] ENCO SRL [ENCO] TUCO YACHT VAERFT APS [TUCO] Lietuvos žuvininkystės produktų gamintojų asociacija [LFPA] Gemi Boats Scandinavia AS [GEMI]

Objectives

REFEST proposal is focussed on the most promising scalable technologies with low CAPEX, easy to deploy and suitable to be installed in a broad range of traditional fishing ships (up to 12m size and broad range of shape) to provide hydrodynamics, electrical power management system, alternative propellers, solar electricity generation and propulsion (batteries), spray rails and air lubrication.

Description

REFEST aims to achieve TRL6 – procedures and technologies to secure the reduction of fuel consumption and GHG emissions up to 40% reduction compared to the original design. The solutions proposed will be designed to ready to deploy in a broad range of small fishing vessels and they are characterized by a low CAPEX and OPEX requirements to significantly reduce the payback time (to 5-6 years). Ensuring upscaling of the proposed solutions after project implementation till 2030.
The main innovations are summarized as follow:
• Innovative design by the use bulbs and spray rails that allow to improve hull hydrodynamics, to minimize the water friction and reduce external and underwater noise.
• Recyclable acrylic resins reinforced with carbon/glass fibres for manufacture of hull appendages and use thermoplastic composites to produce battery housing.
• Integration of air lubrication systems for small vessels.
• Propulsion systems based on RIM drive solutions and its hybridization with current diesel engines.
• Integration of multi-functional optical fibre sensors for fishing ships monitoring.
• Cloud-based Eco-driving software with AI will be integrated as well as a class 1 Dynamic Positioning System (DPS) based on the RIM-drive propulsion.
• Safe, cost efficient and light Li Ion battery system for long cycle life in cold operation environments.
• Battery system with a high percentage of reusable and recyclable parts.
• Optimized Lithium Battery pack, EMS, and PMS to maximize the energy consumption in the vessel.
• Low-weight (< 20 g/Wp) and flexible photovoltaic panels (FPV) based on silicon cells and flexible connector to be integrate in ship. Including walkable version to increase the available surface for FPV installation.
• Three retrofit demo traditional fishing ships in North Sea (Denmark & Norway) and Baltic Sea (Lithuania).

Financing