Marine Engineering: Alternative Fuels for Decarbonisation

This technical seminar seeks to explore the range of mechanical engineering concerns associated with the low carbon fuelling of marine vessels. The marine sector serves a variety of purposes, from applications within the defence sector to challenges of shipping and commercial passenger ventures. Within all these areas, the maritime engineers responding to calls for net zero must balance safety and cost implications when considering the retrofitting of existing vessels to suit new, alternative fuels.

Attendees will also benefit from discussions on the growing concerns surrounding the formation of a strong supply chain, covering safe, compliant and cost-effective fuel storage, security, transportation and associated infrastructure. The question of how engineers and manufacturers might effectively sustain the ports where vessels dock and require safe refuelling will be addressed.

TOPICS COVERED:

• Regulatory Best Practice for Alternative Fuelling
• Hydrogen Storage: Fire Propagation, Explosion Safety and Detonation
• Adapting existing fleet for Alternative Fuels
• Switching to Ammonia: Design, Engine Conversion and Safety
• Ship to shore infrastructure
• Facilities for Refuelling: Bunkering and Storage
• Ensuring Alternative Fuel is Sustainably Produced

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

• Jon Hood, UK Sustainable Shipping Manager, Transport & Environment
• Louise Wright, Lead Technical Specialist – Risk Assessment & RBC, Lloyd’s Register
• Thomas Beard, Clean Shipping Service Lead; Principle Marine Engineer, BMT
• Alasdair Cairns, Director of Powertrain Research Centre, University of Nottingham and Programme Director, MariNH3
• Chris Smith, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Exeter and Director of the Centre for Future Clean Mobility
• Paul Herbert, Principal Technology Specialist - Power and Energy Conversions, Lloyd’s Register