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WEGEMT Short Course on Green Shipping: Energy, Emissions & Economy

By 5th April 2019 November 16th, 2020 No Comments

WEGEMT is organising a 3-day short course on “Green Shipping: Energy, Emissions & Economy”.

The school will take place at Technical University of Denmark between the 22 nd and 24 th of May 2019 and WEGEMT will be subsidizing the first 20 interested students who wish to apply.

Below is the detailed schedule of the course which is also available as a download from here

 

Tentative programme

Day 1 / 22 May 2019

09:00 – 09:10Welcome/George Panagakos (Technical University of Denmark)

09:10 – 09:40Green shipping: Definition and rationale/George Panagakos (Technical University of Denmark)

09:40 – 10:15The legal framework (IMO & EU)/George Panagakos (Technical University of Denmark)

10:15 – 10:45Coffee break

10:45 – 12:00Taxonomy of CO 2 reduction measures/George Panagakos (Technical University of Denmark)

12:00 – 13:00Lunch break

13:00 – 14:15Monitoring CO2 emissions/George Panagakos (Technical University of Denmark)

14:15 – 15:30Free time(to reach Danish Shipping)

15:30 – 16:00Keynote 1: The climate policy of Danish Shipping/Per Winther Christensen (Danish Shipping)

16:00 – 16:30Keynote 2: Scrubbers, what are the facts?/Poul Woodall (DFDS)

16:30 – 17:00Keynote 3: Green Ship of the Future/Anne Katrine Bjerregaard (Green Ship of The Future)

17:00 – 18:00Reception at Danish Shipping 

 

Day 2 / 23 May 2019

09:00 – 09:30TRA VISIONS 2020 Competitions/George Smyrnakis (WEGEMT)

09:30 – 10:45Energy efficiency improvement of existing ships/Hossein Ghaemi (Gdansk University of Technology)

10:45 – 11:00Coffee break

11:00 – 12:15Optimisation of ship control systems/Hossein Ghaemi (Gdansk University of Technology)

12:15 – 13:00Lunch break

13:00 – 14:15NOx and SOx emission control technologies/Peilin Zhou (Strathclyde University)

14:15 – 14:45Coffee break

14:45 – 16:00LNG as an alternative marine fuel/Peilin Zhou (Strathclyde University)

 

Day 3 / 24 May 2019

09:00 – 10:15Life Cycle thinking – Life Cycle assessment/Nikolaos Ventikos (National Technical University of Athens)

10:15 – 10:45Coffee break

10:45 – 12:00Ship air emissions Life Cycle inventory studies/Nikolaos Ventikos (National Technical University of Athens)

12:00 – 13:00Lunch break

13:00 – 14:15Optimisation applications for reduced/David Pisinger (Technical University of Denmark)

13:00 – 14:15CO2 emissions in liner shipping

14:15 – 14:45Coffee break

14:45 – 16:00EEDI effects on ship propulsion systems/Ioannis Ergas (WEGEMT)

16:00 – 16:30Course evaluation & Goodbye/George Panagakos (Technical University of Denmark)

 

Eligibility criteria

The eligibility criteria for the subsidy are the following:

  • Students need to be at their final year of studies or early year of their PhD course
  • Students need to study at a University which is an active WEGEMT member (list of Universities is included in the application form).
  • A subsidy of €500 will be given to 20 students interested to come. The subsidy is available only for students outside of Denmark.
  • Priority will be given to accepting students from as many Universities as possible
    (i.e. up to 20 Universities sending one student/University) and it will be on a first come first serve basis per university.

 

 

Application

If you fulfill the eligibility criteria you can also apply for the subsidy of € 500 for attending the course through the following steps:

  • Download and complete the registration/reimbursement form from here
  • Email it back to info@wegemt.eu by Friday the 26 th of April.
  • Once all the applications are processed the ones who qualify for the subsidy will be notified by the first week of May so that you can start planning your travelling
  • Once you complete the course, we will deposit the subsidy to your account.

 

Venue

The course will be held at the following address:

Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Anker Engelunds Vej 1
Building 101A, Room S16
2800 Kongens Lyngby
Denmark

We will be looking forward to receiving applications for the course.