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Parametric ship design and optimisation of cargo vessels for efficiency and safe operation in adverse weather conditions

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A ship needs to be optimized for cost-effectiveness, operational efficiency, improved safety, comfort of passengers and crew, and for minimum environmental impact. Many of these requirements are contradicting and a decision regarding the optimal ship design needs to be made, based as far as possible on rational criteria and procedures. This is the case for the problem which the SHOPERA project is dealing with. Environmental concern was the reason behind the introduction of the Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) a few years ago. One way of fulfilling the demanding requirements of the EEDI regulation is to reduce speed of future ships. This may result, however, in under-powered designs, raising questions regarding the ability of these designs to operate safely in adverse weather conditions. The present paper focuses on the development of an optimisation procedure for the design of tankers and bulk carriers, to identify designs with adequate powering to ensure safe operation in adverse weather conditions, while keeping the right balance between economy, efficiency and safety of the ship and the environment.

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  1. Improvements in operational procedures (e.g. trim optimisation or improved weather routing) can also help to reduce ship emissions, but these are not accounted for in the calculation of EEDI.

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The work presented in this paper is partly supported by the Collaborative Project SHOPERA (Energy Efficient Safe SHip OPERAtion), Grant agreement number 605221, co-funded by the Research DG of the European Commission within the RTD activities of the FP7 Thematic Priority Transport, FP7-SST-2013-RTD-1, Activity 7.2.4 Improving Safety and Security, SST.2013.4-1: Ships in Operation. The European Community and the authors shall not in any way be liable or responsible for the use of any knowledge, information or data of the present paper, or of the consequences thereof. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the European Community.

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    Aphrodite Kanellopoulou, Ageliki Kytariolou, Apostolos Papanikolaou & George Zaraphonitis

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Kanellopoulou, A., Kytariolou, A., Papanikolaou, A. et al. Parametric ship design and optimisation of cargo vessels for efficiency and safe operation in adverse weather conditions. J Mar Sci Technol 24, 1223–1240 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00773-018-00620-1

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