Biofuels for Transport
- road transport
- shipping
- aviation
- environmental effects
- costs
- policy instruments
Electrification of waterborne transport
- Electrically powered waterborne transportation,
- E-ferry
- E-navigation
- Waterborne transport batteries and electrification of vessel fleets.
- Hybrid electric feeder vessel
- Inshore vessels (operating coastal areas and inland waterways) with electric power systems
- Research and Innovation in the Field of Zero-Emission Waterborne Transport
Resource efficient waterborne transport system
- Cooling technology based on the recycling and disposal of thermal waste energy
- Research in the field of recycling of unused energy on ships.
- Research in the field of marine air-conditioning and battery cooling powered by waste heat. Waste heat recovery.
- Research in the field of lowering lifecycle costs
Research in the field of alternative fuels.
- Hydrogen-based fuels ships,
- Research results in the field of introduction of hydrogen in maritime passenger transport sector.
- Hydrogen as a solution to power machinery and vehicles.
- Results of the research in the field of on board fuel, energy and heat management optimization
- Results of the research in the field of Methanol fuel and hydrogen fuel, ammonia-powered fuel cell.
- Technologies using wind as an auxiliary propulsion measure.
- Onshore Power Supply (OPS)
- Renewables integration on board
Technologies to combat fouling on the hull.
- New solutions for cleaning the ship in ports. On-board automatic cleaning robot.
- Methods for the detection and cleaning of fouling on the hull of ships by early detection of biofouling.
- Research in the field of coating the surface of ships for reducing frictional resistance and reducing biofouling.
- Multi-use platforms with safe and cost efficient deck space at sea and ocean,
- Optimisation of ship design and operation for life-cycle
- Steering systems for waterborne transport
- Improvement in the operation of large containerships.
- Operation methods that help reduce emissions to the environment.
- Research in the field of disposal of ships.
- New technologies to monitor the absolute movement and position of a ships anchor.
Engines
- Developments in the field of a fuel flexible marine engine
- Fuel flexible engine and near-zero emissions engine
- Fuel flexible large marine engine
- Adaptive control methodologies to retain performance over the powerplant lifetime.
- Combined integrated aftertreatment of exhaust gases.
- Large engine technologies,
- Improvement of ship propulsion systems.
- Research in the field of improving the environmental performance of marine engines,
- Ground-breaking radar technologies
- Achievements in the field of maritime technology (shipyards and maritime equipment)
- Research results on engine efficiency, fuel consumption, gaseous and particulate emissions.
- Research in the field of improving the environmental performance of marine engines,
- Advanced Clean Fleets
Acoustic noise and vibrations
- Techniques for reducing acoustic noise and vibrations from the running engines.
- Fight against underwater radiated noise (URN)
Oceans protection and ecology
- New technological solutions for harbor and ocean litter detection, and seabed mapping.
- Innovative technologies for harmful environmental emissions (including greenhouse gas, air and water pollutants)
- Research in the field of reducing environmental impacts from offshore production facilities like (carbon) emissions and water usage.
- Understanding and protecting the oceans
- A sustainable land-use strategy in and around the port
- On-board and airborne sensors to measure black carbon and ultrafine particles;
- The potential use of satellite observations for monitoring individual vessel NOx and SO2 emissions.
Arctic
- Risk management in Polar waters.
- Ship-ice interaction, and structural damage and consequence analysis.
- Safe Arctic navigation,
- Anti-icing engineering solutions.
- Information and communication technologies,
- New technologies for monitoring
Unmanned shipping
- Ocean and intercontinental unmanned shipping.
- Autonomous vessels and autonomous maritime operations.
- Vessel trains for operations on short-sea, sea-river and inland waterways.
Smart ports
- Fuel cells and hydrogen technologies in ports
- Container management systems. Simulation model for CMS.
- Port operations
- Dredging
Information and communication technologies
- New technologies for monitoring the absolute movement and position of a ships anchor.
- Research results on digitalization in all waterborne sectors.
- Information and communication technologies for all waterborne sectors.
- Augmented reality technology. Innovative big data management techniques.
- Supply chain optimisation. Deep sea shipping, short sea shipping and inland waterways.
- Robotic cargo handling system
- IoT and Integrated Dynamic Position System
- Big data to manage transport operations.
- IoT, data analytics, next generation traffic management and 5G, for modern ports
- Machine learning, AI and digitisation for lower margin operations
- Use of machine learning and AI in subsurface operations and reservoir optimisation
- Reducing impact through better use of data
- Improved decision-making
Alternative Energy Sources, Materials & Technologies
Electrification, Electrofuels and Energy Efficiency
- Emissions trading schemes, promoting energy efficiency
- Energy and emission modelling
- Carbon border adjustment measures
- Community and supply chain
- Electricity tariffs and smart meters
- Local energy communities, big data
- Smart grids, Microgrids and energy security
- Security risks in the electricity sector
- Energy security and the role of new technologies in energy transition
- Energy storage and electrification– effects on the market
- Geopolitics of energy and global governance
- Nuclear energy markets
- Disruptive business models in energy sector
- Energy transition funds
- The Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC)
- Behavioral energy economics
- Evolution of Electricity Markets, designing smart electricity markets
Capture, utilisation and storage of fluids in the subsurface
- CO2, Hydrogen, Natural gas, Nitrogen
- Coal gasification
- Pipelines for hydrogen and CO2 transport
Extraction of heat (geothermal) and materials (e.g. metals) from the subsurface fluids
- High and medium enthalpy
- Recovery of lithium and/or other metals from enriched brines
- Application of innovative technologies
- Water desalination
- Rare earth elements
- Solution mining
Carbon efficient reservoir management
- NetZero reservoir operations
- Decarbonising onshore and offshore operations
- Well-to-wheel CO2 reduction
- Reservoir characterisation, modelling and simulation
- Novel well testing and design for Geoenergy reservoirs
- Geoenergy reservoir management under uncertainty and risk
- Geophysics — Exploration and appraisal of new geoenergy resources
- Microtechnologies
- Circular economics
- Economics of the environment and carbon
- Macro economics of the energy industry
- Investor relations and drivers
- Security of energy supply through the energy transition
- Macro and micro Geoenergy projects
- Energy industry forecasting and strategies
- Sustainability in the energy industry
- Human and environmental safety
- Socioeconomic impacts of the energy transition
- Stakeholders in reservoir developments
- Decision-making under uncertainty and risk
- Education and outreach for the energy transition
- NetZero business structures for current E&P businesses
- Sociological impacts of the energy industry
- Security of energy supply