Innovation Platform Marit
Project Duration: 01.2025 - 12.2027
The maritime industry plays a crucial role in global trade, with over 80% of goods transported by sea. The ongoing electrification of the sector, alongside the development of alternative fuels create new possibilities for emission reduced and efficient shipping solutions. These advancements call for a shift in the design and construction processes within the maritime industry towards a model-based design to evaluate and optimize a large number of possible ship designs, retrofit strategies and system layout options along their entire life cycle at an early stage.
Within the project, the team is developing a model-based decision support platform that can be used to innovate through analysis, evaluations and optimization of new technologies a resilient and emission free waterborne transport. The innovation platform is a model-based co-simulation framework that integrates knowledge (models, methods, workflows) from the three central maritime value chains and makes it possible to analyse and evaluate their interactions to determine optimized ship designs (newbuilds), optimized retrofit plans (retrofitting of existing ships) and optimized port infrastructures for alternative fuels.
The central result of the project is the development of the innovation platform, in which all planned models, methods and workflows from the following six areas are integrated:
1. Port infrastructures and transportation chains for alternative fuels
2. Optimisation of ship energy systems
3. Optimisation of operational ship efficiency
4. Structural monitoring and component wear
5. Efficient, sustainable life cycles and reuse
6. Validation and certification procedures
The innovation potential of the platform will be validated and demonstrated with use cases together with industry stakeholders. Following the project, the innovation platform will be made available as a service while being continuously developed further and expanded in the direction of an open, integrated, model-based development platform (DevOps) for modular, resource-saving maritime transportation systems.
Contact
Prof. Dr. Sören Ehlers