The RETRO-NAV project
The RETRO-NAV project aims to create an innovative experimental platform for evaluating hybrid ship architectures in a retrofit context.
RETRONAV plans to interface all the energy systems on board ships in an innovative way by adopting specific energy management and control/command strategies, which should result in minimising stresses on active electronic components, operating costs and CO2 emissions, and ensuring the electrical stability of the distribution network.
This innovative energy conversion platform integrates a piloting system coupled with energy management controllers enabling various operating modes to be validated, while ensuring the quality and stability of the electrical network on board the vessel.
The system will make it possible to manage large consumers such as propulsion motors or bow thrusters. It will also prevent destabilising phenomena and manage load shedding, which controls the opening of certain distribution circuit breakers in order to avoid critical overload situations and, consequently, blackouts on board the ship.
Research theme: Energy transition and ship physics cluster
Project leader: ENSM
Total budget: €123,287 grant
Start date: 01/11/2024
Estimated project duration: 2 years
Key word : Maritime transport, hybridisation, decarbonisation, retrofit, stability.
Funding
Grant from the South PACA region
Contacts
ENSM contact point :
Mohamed TRABELSI
mohamed.trabelsi@supmaritime.fr
ENSM participants in the project :
Mohamed TRABELSI
mohamed.trabelsi@supmaritime.fr
Recruitment in progress : no recruitment for this project