RINA provides a wide range of services across the Energy&Mobility, Marine, Certification, Infrastructure & Real Estate and Industry sectors. With net revenues in 2021 of 533 million Euros, over 4,400 employees and 200 offices in 70 countries worldwide, RINA is a member of key international organizations and an important contributor to the development of new legislative standards. RINA Consulting is the administrative and financial coordinator the project and it is in charge of taking care about Communication & Dissemination actions along the whole project duration. Furthermore, thanks to the contribution of RINA Services the studies on regulatory aspects will be performed. RINA is also responsible for the results exploitation.
The National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) is the oldest and most prestigious technological educational institution in Greece and has contributed unceasingly to the country's scientific, technical & economic development since its foundation in 1836. NTUA is divided into nine academic Schools, eight engaging in engineering sciences and one in general sciences. The Laboratory of Steam Boilers and Thermal Plants (LSBTP) and Laboratory of Thermal Processes (LTP) belong to the Thermal Engineering Department of the School of Mechanical Engineering. The laboratories have wide experience and are active for over 30 years in the field of thermal energy conversion technologies, focusing among other topics on energy efficiency assessment and evaluation, energy savings in industrial processes and power plants, process simulation/optimisation and development and experimental testing of small-scale heat pump units, Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) systems and cooling cycles for multigeneration. In ZHENIT, NTUA is responsible for the development of an innovative cascade ORC – ejector integrated heat pump for the utilization of waste heat recovery at two temperature levels (130-150℃) and ≈60℃ for the production of electrical power, heating and cooling. Furthermore, NTUA coordinates activities related to dynamic simulation/control and monitoring of the ZHENIT solutions, being primarily responsible for their dynamic modelling.
Kyma AS is a specialist in the field of manufacturing and development of products for marine performance monitoring. Kyma delivers high quality products for performance monitoring to all types of vessels. Our products represent state of the art technology, and quality assurance is a continuous and necessary process for efficient production and development of new products.
Kyma takes care about the development of the monitoring platform for La Naumon and of the WHR solutions. Furthermore, it complies with the on-board waste heat monitoring from the present engines.
TECNALIA is the largest centre of applied research and technological development in Spain, a benchmark in Europe and a member of the Basque Research and Technology Alliance. We collaborate with companies and institutions to improve their competitiveness, people's quality of life and achieve sustainable growth. We do it thanks to people who are passionate about technology and committed to building a better society.
Its main scopes of action are: smart manufacturing, digital transformation, energy transition, sustainable mobility, personalized health, urban ecosystem and circular economy.
ANEK LINES is activated for more than a half of a century in the passenger shipping sector, performing itineraries in the Aegean and the Adriatic seas. Group’s fleet consists of 8 vessels offering high quality services both at Greek domestic routes as well as at the routes connecting Greece with Italy. ANEK is involved in ZHENIT project as an end-user, representing and identifying Ro-Pax vessels' specifications, characteristics and requirements, under the scope of the potential adaptation of the project's solutions and outcomes aiming at reducing vessels’ primary energy need towards the ambitious goal of zero-WH vessels in the passenger shipping sector.
The Institute for Advanced Energy Technologies (CNR ITAE) was established by the Italian National Council of Research and has long proven experience in the development and penetration of technologies related to energy saving, low polluting energy production, renewable energy sources, hydrogen and fuel cells in Italy and Europe since the 80’s. CNR ITAE will be in charge for the development and testing of the adsorption cooling + desalination unit. Furthemore, it will focus on the modelling activity, KPIs definition and support to the validation campaign.
Sorption Technologies develops, manufactures and sells adsorption chillers. Furthermore, we are involved in R&D projects on advanced applications of adsorption technology, such as heat & cold storage, dehumidification and desalination. The company is head-quartered in Freiburg, Germany and has an R&D and Sales Center in Rovereto, Italy and a production facility in Zywiec, Poland. Sorption Technologies cooperates with CNR (Italy) on the development of innovative waste heat recovery technologies for desalination and cooling provide by sorption process. This process is able to valorise low-to-medium temperature energy (e.g. 60-80 °C). Sorption Technologies develops and produces this adsorption desalinator and cooling machine able to prove its reliability in operation onboard of a boat. Where a proper operation of the system under the fluctuations of the vessel will be tested. It is a thermally driven technology, where the driving source will be the waste heat available from the engine of the vessel itself.
Encontech B.V. is a high-tech, spinoff company of the University of Twente (the Netherlands) established in 2008. The core business of Encontech is the research and development of externally heated engines and compression chemical reactors. During last 18 years the company founders conducted extensive R&D in the area of externally heated engines. Innovative technology for conversion of low-temperature heat into usable energy, known as Isobaric Expansion (IE) technology, was developed. The innovation consists of a closed thermal cycle engine which eliminates the main problem of low-temperature heat engines (ORC; thermo-electric, etc) – a high cost.
In ZHENIT project an IE engine for converting waste heat of a diesel engine (exhaust, supercharger and/or cooling water) into usable energy will be developed. This will result in 2-3 % of fuel saving (1.6-1.7 % of engine’s power output) and associated emissions depending on the diesel engine operation regime.
Gruppo SIGLA Srl, established in 1990 in Genova (Italy), is an Italian SME consisting of more than 70 specialists with high technical expertise and experience in the field of ICT. Gruppo SIGLA provides IT solutions, covering the entire lifecycle: from the analysis of the customer requirements to the implementation of feasibility studies, from the design (hardware and software) to the integration and configuration of the systems, from the development of “software dedicated applications” to their installation and delivery to the end users. Main activity of Gruppo Sigla srl (SIGLA) in ZHENIT is the transposition of the outputs of all WH-to-X solutions, plus the wing-sail, TES and RES towards a single configurable control platform, which will handle the operation of the integrated system to be tested at both TECNALIA Lab and in the La Naumon vessel.
bound4blue develops automated wind-assisted propulsion systems as a turnkey solution for all shipowners and shipping companies seeking to reduce fuel costs and polluting emissions. bound4blue's eSAIL® system is an efficient and validated solution for saving fuel and emissions, completely autonomous, with low cost, low maintenance and easy installation onboard. The company, founded in 2014 with a vocation clearly focused on the renewable energy sector in the maritime field, has its headquarters in Cantabria (ES) and offices in Barcelona and Singapore. During 2021, the company installed its eSAIL® system on two ships and has signed additional agreements with other shipowners to install the system on their fleets starting in 2022. bound4blue's participation in the project will focus on the hybridization of waste heat recovery systems with our eSAIL technology.
Founded in 1900, the University is one of the leading research-based universities in the United Kingdom. The last UK Research Excellence Framework in 2014 confirmed that 87% of the University’s research has global reach, meaning it is recognised internationally in terms of its originality, significance and rigour. The University of Birmingham is a partner in the ZHENIT project through Dr Adriano Sciacovelli’s research group based at the School of Chemical Engineering and Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage (BCES). The principal role of the University of Birmingham will be i) techno-economic modelling and optimization toward zero waste heat vessels. This role covers the simulation of WH-to-X and TES solutions for on-board applications and the development of a framework for thermo-economic analysis of the technologies. ii) Development of on-board thermal energy storage (TES) with phase change materials. This part includes the development and performance test of the lab-scale TES at the UoB facility, which is followed by establishing the knowledge to scale up the TES for on-board integration.
RINA Services
University of Basque Country
Sorption Technologies (Italy)
Navtec
