Boats and ships cause up to 40% of the air pollution in coastal towns in the Mediterranean: there is a need for new green marine propulsion systems. Marine electric propulsion is a great solution. However, to obtain a boat thrust and range similar to traditional diesel boats, very high volumes of batteries (or fuel cells) are needed, and costs increase with battery size .
There are two ways to reduce the cost and space occupied by batteries: increase battery energy density and decrease overall power consumption. Within this project, Nablawave and Sea Green Engineering want to develop a new type of propulsion system based on a patent filed by Nablawave, which exploits the principles of distributed propulsion in order to increase performance over all solutions known to date, leading to a reduction in the boat power demand.
The advantages of our propulsion system, compared to existing solutions, are the following:
The project, presented in partnership with Sea Green Engineering Srl and funded by the Anticipation PR FESR 2021-2027 Friuli-Venezia Giulia – Incentives to companies for collaborative industrial research and experimental development – call 2022, started on 26th January 2023.
The program grants to Nablawave a contribution of € 115.074,13 on an eligible expenditure of € 181.612,50.