Day 1

Day 1 - 26 October 2023

08:00 - 08:45: Registration and Coffee

08:45 - 09:00: Welcome & Opening Remarks

09:00 - 09:30: Keynote Speaker - Moritz Krijgsman (Maritime Research Institute Netherlands | MARIN): A Brief History of the Zero Emission Lab - Zero Emission and Climate Neutrality are More than Alternative Fuels


Morning Session

Session 1 (09:30 -10:30) - Alternative Fuels (Chair: Dr Peter de Vos)

09:30 - 09:50: Feasibility Analysis of a Methanol Fuelled Bulk Carrier

09:50 - 10:10: A Comparative Study on the Performance of Marine Diesel Engines Running on Diesel/Natural Gas and Diesel/Methanol Mode

10:10 - 10:30: Evaluation of Methanol Sprays in Marine Internal Combustion Engines: A Case Study for Port Fuel Injection Systems


10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break

Session 2 (11:00 - 13:00) - Energy Efficiency & Systems Optimization (Chair: Prof. Rudy Negenborn)

11:00 - 11:20: Improving the Energy Efficiency of Ships: Modelling, Simulation, and Optimization of Cost-effective Technologies

11:20 - 11:40: Co-Design and Energy Management for Future Vessels

11:40 - 12:00: Topology generation of naval propulsion architecture

12:00 - 13:00: Lunch sponsored by MARIN


Afternoon Session

Session 3: (13:00 - 14:00) - System Modeling and Control (Dr Henk Polinder)

13:00 - 13:20: A Method to Enable Reduced Sensor Capacitor Voltage Estimation in Modular Multilevel Converters

13:20 - 13:40: Decentralized power sharing with frequency decoupling for a fuel cell-battery DC shipboard power system

13:40 - 14:00: Health-Aware Control Strategies for Enhanced Performance and Extended Hybrid and Full Electric Powertrains Lifecycle


14:00 - 14:30 - Round Table Discussion: Decarbonisation (Chair: Prof Gerasimos Theotokatos)


14:30 - 15:00: Coffee Break

Session 4 (15:00 - 16:00) - Hydrogen & Alternative Fuels (Chair: Dr Lindert van Biert)

15:00 - 15:20: Diesel substitution with hydrogen for marine engines

15:20 - 15:40: Establishing the Influence of Methanol Fuelled Power Propulsion and Energy Systems on Ship Design

15:40 - 16:00: Thermodynamic Evaluation of a Combined SOFC-PEMFC Cycle System


Session 5 (16:00 - 17:00) - Data Driven Methods (Chair: Dr Andrea Coraddu)

16:00 - 16:20: Shallow and Deep Learning Models for Vessel Motions Forecasting during High Exogenous Loading

16:20 - 16:40: Self-supervised signal feature learning for the marine diesel engine fault diagnosis with limited annotation data

16:40 - 17:00: Power increase due to marine biofouling: a grey-box model approach