22 May 2008

Session 5 - OWNERS' PERSPECTIVE

09.00

Energy and emissions; challenges as seen from a ship owner
Per Brinchmann, Managing Director Wilhelmsen Marine Consultants
The paper addresses future trends in energy and emissions, discusses incentives, possibilities and showstoppers among the various stakeholders in the industry and gives ideas, from a ship owner's perspective, on the way forward.

09.25

Effective measures for operating ships with reduced emission levels
Dr. Jan O. de Kat, Senior Director, Head of Innovation, Technical Organisation , A.P. Moller - Maersk A/S

The paper addresses the emissions of current and future ships and reviews possible ways of reducing levels by means of retrofit and operation. This includes electronically controlled diesel engines, waste heat recovery, machinery systems, fuel switch to low sulphur diesel, slow steaming, hull and propeller design, hull resistance reduction, antifouling and abatement technologies aimed at reducing NOx, SOx and particulate matter emission.

Session 6 - AFTER TREATMENT OF EXHAUST GAS

9.50

Beyond distillates - How scrubbing and abatement technologies get shipping to the next level of environmental performance
Andy Osbourne, Business Development Director, Krystallon
Krystallon has always supported any measure that reduces harmful emissions from shipping. The increased use of distillates is one of the short-term methods which can be used to achieve this. There are now technologies emerging however, which already have the capability to take the standard distillate use will bring, and take it to the next environmental level. The paper presents facts around why scrubbing and other technologies will be the only way to go beyond short-term goals set by distillate use and also give some indicators on how technology is likely to lead us to "zero emissions".

10.15

SOx scrubbing of marine exhaust gases
Torbjörn Henriksson, Propulsion and Applications Expert, Technical Service,Wärtsilä Corporation
The paper will discuss two different scrubbing technologies worth further development for embarked applications. These technologies being sea water (open loop) and fresh water (closed loop) scrubbing.

10.40

Coffee break

Session 7 - ADVANCED PROPULSION CONCEPTS

11.10

Reduction of fuel consumption and environmental footprint for AHTS and OSVs using electric or hybrid propulsion
Alf-kare Adnanes, Technology Manager, VP; Marine & Cranes, ABB
This paper discusses typical electrical and hybrid propulsion systems in use in offshore support vessels and methods to assess the life cycle effects on fuel consumption and environmental footprint.

11.35

AC Link – 21st Century Technology for Marine Power Distribution,Electric Propulsion, Thrusters and Ancillary Drives

Reducing local ship emissions by switching to LNG

12.25

Lunch sponsored by Krystallon

Session 8 PORT PERSPECTIVE

1.25

Using alternative fuels to clean up U.S. container ports
James S. Cannon, President, Energy Futures Inc
This presentation discusses the findings of the report, 'Container Ports and Air Pollution: A Perfect Storm' which identifies several pollution control programs underway at the 10 largest ports involving the use of natural gas, bio-diesel or hybrid electric vehicles

1.50

A ports' perspective on air quality issues in ports and port towns
Howard Holt, Head of Corporate Affairs, Port of Dover
Historically ports have developed at the heart of their towns and cities, close to densely populated areas. Over the last decade, the issue of air quality has become of greater importance to the local communities inside and outside port boundaries. The presentation seeks to address these issues from the point of view of the port authority working in association with its shipping customers, with particular reference made to the Port of Dover, the busiest roll-on roll-off port in Europe.

2.15

Coffee break

2.45

Panel Discussion – Owner – Supplier debate
Moderator - Björn Södahl Research Coordinator, Dept of Shipping and Marine Technology, Chalmers University of Technology.
Participants tbc

4.15

Conference ends