Theme 2 : "Shipbuilding and leisure boat building"

Today 80% of world trade is carried by sea. Maritime transport, as an essential vehicle for commerce, is a key factor in the global economy. Over the next few years however, this mode of transport must face up to environmental, economic and social constraints designed to make it safer and cleaner.
In the light of developments in European and international regulations and ship owners’ expectations regarding minimising operational costs, naval architects and shipyards are devising solutions to improve the energy efficiency of vessels.

EONAV will provide ship owners and crews with a decision-making tool that will enable them to reduce on-board energy consumption and atmospheric emissions. In real time, the tool links several series of parameters governing consumption and emissions, some linked to the environment, such as sea state, current, swell, temperature and wind, others linked to a vessel’s operational conditions – number of passengers, transit speed, maximum speed, etc.

EONAV will involve existing ships, measuring their energy consumption and evaluating their emissions, as well as those of the future. The development from design phase of a simulator will make it possible to optimise ships’ energy and environmental performance.

EONAV is targeted at all types of ships: military vessels, cruise liners, cargo ships and containers, and will help strengthen the French shipbuilding industry at an international level.The project falls under the heading “On-board energy production and use” of the Naval Innovation programme led by GICAN, which coordinates R&D in the shipbuilding sector in France. EONAV complements projects previously recognised by the Pôle Mer – NACRE, OPTNAV and CONVENAV, in a drive towards cleaner, more reliable and economical ships.

The EONAV project, recognised jointly by Pôle Mer PACA and Pôle EMC2.

EONAV project partners

Companies

• DCNS, project director, ship designer and project manager, develops innovative solutions in the field of shipbuilding and ship repair. DCN sites at Lorient, Brest, Toulon and Indret are taking part in the project.

• ALTEP, Brest, engineering company, works in civil and military space aeronautics, civil and naval shipbuilding and production goods and services

• Bureau Veritas, classification service, Nantes

• SIREHNA, Nantes, company specialising in marine robotics, embedded systems and optimisation

• STX France Cruise SA, Saint-Nazaire, shipyards specialising in the construction of large cruise liners

• SHERPA Engineering, Toulon, systems engineering services company specialising in the design of physical models and in related command-and-control regulations

Research centres

• LISMMA (Laboratoire d’Ingénierie des systèmes Mécaniques et des Matériaux – Mechanical Systems and Materials Engineering laboratory) at SUPMECA College, Toulon.

• IRCCyN (Institut de Recherche en Communications et Cybernétique de Nantes

• Nantes Communications and Cybernetics Research Institute), CNRS mixed research unit (UMR 6597), under directorship locally of the Ecole Centrale de Nantes, University of Nantes and Ecole des Mines de Nantes