{"id":918,"date":"2020-05-06T11:29:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T10:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/?p=918"},"modified":"2020-05-06T11:29:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T10:29:43","slug":"reducing-ships-fuel-emissions-via-ai-driven-voyage-optimisation-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/2020\/05\/06\/reducing-ships-fuel-emissions-via-ai-driven-voyage-optimisation-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Reducing ships fuel emissions via AI-driven voyage optimisation software"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Despite the fact that shipping is such an efficient form of\ntransport, it still accounts for ~2% of world emissions. With 50,000+\ncommercial vessels operating in our ocean\u2019s there is plenty of room to improve\nthe efficiency of these vessels to help our planet. This view is supported by\nshipping\u2019s regulators and there is increasing legislative pressure to reduce\ngreenhouse gases emissions. This increase in legislation is in combination with\nthe increase in the cost of compliant fuels and has led to a high demand for\nsolutions to reduce fuel-consumption of commercial vessels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore, Dr Adam Sobey and Dr Przemyslaw Grudniewski from the Maritime Engineering group at the University of Southampton have partnered with Theyr ltd<\/a> to create an efficient voyage optimisation solution for commercial vessels. The project will focus on combining real-time high-fidelity met-ocean data, provided by Theyr ltd, with a world-leading Genetic Algorithm<\/a>, developed previously by Dr Sobey and Dr Grudniewski. This will increase the robustness and effectiveness of voyage planning, allowing vessels to avoid poor weather and travel at efficient speeds to reduce greenhouse gases emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project is funded by a grant from the \u00a34.8 million SPRINT<\/a> program (SPace Research and Innovation Network for Technology), which was developed to help merge commercial data and technologies with innovative university research.\u00a0 Furthermore, it is planned to utilise the IRDIS 5 supercomputer, the UK\u2019s largest academic supercomputer located in University of Southampton, to accelerate the verification process. We hope a number of student projects will be developed in parallel to this research to help the team solve these challenging issues and provide creative solutions to provide real world impact. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further details can be found in the trade and engineering\npress: Freightcomms<\/a>,  SHIP\nTechnology<\/a>, Vessel\nPerformance Optimisation<\/a> and the May 2020 issue of the Naval Architect,\npublished by the Royal Institute of Naval Architects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite the fact that shipping is such an efficient form of transport, it still accounts for ~2% of world emissions. With 50,000+ commercial vessels operating in our ocean\u2019s there is plenty of room to improve the efficiency of these vessels to help our planet. This view is supported by shipping\u2019s regulators and there is increasing … Continue reading Reducing ships fuel emissions via AI-driven voyage optimisation software<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4066,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,34,26],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-maritime-engineering-decarbonisation","tag-naval-architecture-2","tag-shipscience-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4066"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}