ZHENIT Project: Zero waste Heat vessel towards relevant ENergy savings also thanks to IT technologies

ZHENIT Project aims to promote Waste Heat Recovery (WHR) as key and “ready-to-implement” solutions to achieve 2030 IMO/EU targets for shipping sector decarbonization.

ZHENIT goal is to fully untap “on-board WH potential” developing and validating WHR solutions at different temperature levels for different on-board services (cooling, power, desalination), in order to valorise heat in different vessel processes.

ZHENIT will strategically define a plan to boost WHR, and energy management onboards, providing clean energy solutions and “low emissions” ship services (e.g. desalinated water, power, on board HVAC etc.), with a significant impact already in the short-term. The project aims to exploit the WHR potential on vessels by means of new technologies development, on-board validation as well as regulatory framework analysis through the development of a replication roadmap at regulatory and economic level. The ZHENIT experience in holistically integrating and managing different “ready to go” WH-to-X systems, energy management and hybrid propulsion technologies could be also leveraging for future applications in other vessels, towards 0-WH.

To do so ZHENIT technologies will be demonstrated at TRL 5 and they will showcase how WH-to-X if properly integrated with Digital Solutions (energy monitoring and optimized management – SIGLA, KYMA) and wind hybrid propulsion (wingsail by BOUND4BLUE) can bring up to a 25% reduction of vessel energy consumption. Validation results will drive a replication roadmap (at regulatory and economic level) towards 2027-2030 marketability of ZHENIT solutions also thanks to realization of replication feasibility studies via modelling tools and approaches already exploited for terrestrial application.
In this way, ZHENIT consortium, composed by 11 partners from 7 countries under RINA Consulting coordination, will demonstrate the integration of WH-to-X solutions towards a zero WH vessel.
ZHENIT was funded by the European Commission in the framework of Horizon Europe research and innovation program Grant Agreement 101056801 in line with the commitment to decarbonize the shipping sector targeting ambitious decarbonisation goals set by IMO.
 
Navtec will join the consortium and will cooperate with partners to verify the replicability of the technological solutions developed and tested in specific naval market sectors as well as to provide specific data in the field of application.


Project FactSheet
Start Date: 01/06/2022
End Date: 30/11/2025
Overall budget: € 4 400 000
Project Coordinator: RINA CONSULTING SpA (Italy)
Project Partners:
NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS – NTUA (Greece), KYMA AS (Norway), FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION (Spain), ANEK LINES S.A. (Greece), CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE (Italy), SORPTION TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Germany), BOUND 4 BLUE SL (Spain), ENCONTECH BV (Netherlands), GRUPPO SIGLA SRL (Italy), University of Birmingham  (United Kingdom)
 
Useful Link: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/how-to-participate/org-details/998108467/project/101056801/program/43108390/details


 ZHENIT has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement n° 101056801