IDEA:
L1-21 - Cold Ironing at the Anchorage area of Rotterdam Port

PILLAR:
C - Waterborne

RESEARCH AREA:
RA6 - Tansport Infrastructures

TEAM NAME:
Newcastle University - Offshore Cold Ironing 

TEAM MEMBERS:
Petros Gemenetzis (Team leader)
Spyridon Selas
Emmanouil Vranakis
Konstantinos Xydis
Nikolaos Sfakianos
Tsuyoki Sakaguchi


UNIVERSITY:
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne

COUNTRY:
UNITED KINGDOM

ABSTRACT:
Nowadays due to the vast expansion of seaborne trade, emission and environmental regulations implemented by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) are becoming stricter year after year. In an attempt to address the growing need for more green shipping the potential of cold ironing technology, that is the supply of shore side electrical power to a ship at berth while having turned off its auxiliary and main engines, has been considered as one of the most effective methods to control the atmospheric emissions generated by shipping. The present study focuses on the reduction of emissions generated by shipping. The present study focuses n the reduction of emissions occurred in anchorage areas of one the busiest ports in Europe, Rotterdam Port. For this purpose, an innovative design was produced by combining the method of cold ironing and the use of renewable energy sources such as wind farms located close to the anchorage areas of Rotterdam Port. Electrical power produced by the wind farms will be stored in an offshore platform, already located close to the facility and distributed in a subsea station located outside the anchorage area No.1. The design and the exact position of four calm buoys within the anchorage area No.1, which will be connected to the subsea station and be responsible for the transmission of electrical power to the ships are shown on this study. Furthermore, the necessary equipment for each system component, including the offshore platform, subsea station and calm buoys as well as a detailed electrical diagram of the whole system design are described. Finally, an analysis regarding the use of a bio-mass factory, already located in Rotterdam Port, considered as a back-up plan and calculations regarding the choice of the subsea cables employed for this study will be presented. It is estimated that the emissions generated from a tanker ship in the anchorage areas of Rotterdam Port can be as high as 247.400 kg of NOx per day, whereas through the design proposed by this study these emissions are almost eliminated. In addition, ship operators will be able to buy cheap electricity, decreasing both the fuel consumption and the fuel costs required in anchorage areas.