Course Overview

Course Title: Green Shipping and Marine Renewable Energy

Relevant SDGs: SDGs 7 & 9

Credit(s): 1 credits 

Course Description:

The world has abundant natural energy resources from the wind, wave and tides. Being different from the traditional fossil fuels, these energy resources will never run out. Renewable energy is essential for reducing the potential devastating effects of climate change, and protecting the natural environment for future generations. Therefore, when we are talking about the future offshore industry, marine renewable energy stands in the breach. At the same time, the shipping industry is on a revolution for zero emission and unmanned development. There is an urgent demand to develop the technologies to support the sustainable goal in the ocean engineering sectors. This course will introduce the latest technologies in the field of marine engineering and new marine energy in the form of a lecture series, while focusing on the connection between green and smart ships and marine renewable energy resources, and discussing the future green marine network system. This course takes the interaction between teachers and students as a medium. Through direct dialogue with international top scholars with diverse backgrounds, students can exchange knowledge and ideas with teachers on an equal footing and achieve the best integration of teaching and learning. 

Academic Team

PI:

• Feng aichun，Associate professor, School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering, fengaichun@sjtu.edu.cn

Collaborators:

• Zhiming Yuan, Senior lecturer, University of Strathclyde at Glasgow.
• Atilla Incecik, Professor, University of Strathclyde at Glasgow.
• OSMAN TURAN, Professor, University of Strathclyde.
• Tomoki Ikoma, Professor and Vice Dean, Nihon University.

What skills will students get?

1. Understand the state-of-the-art technologies in ocean renewable energy and green shipping industry; 
2. Learn the presentation skills
3. Learn how to do a group project with the other members in a team

Mode of Teaching

Lectures, Group discussions and group presentation

Grading

1. Attendance: 30%;
2. Group presentation: 70%;

Course-specific Restrictions

Undergraduate and post graduate student with science and engineering background. Students with Naval architecture and Ocean Engineering is preferred but not essential.

Class Schedule

Instructors

Aichun Feng

Dr. Aichun Feng is an associate professor in School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He has the Holder of Lloyd Register Educational Trust oversea scholar and Shanghai Oversea High Level Talent. His main research lies in the Ocean Hydrodynamics.

Zhiming Yuan

Dr. Zhiming Yuan is a Reader in the Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering at the University of Strathclyde at Glasgow. His research activity mainly focused on the Marine Hydrodynamics and Offshore Renewable Energy, and he has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles on these areas. Dr Yuan is currently acting as the Deputy Editor of Ocean Engineering, and he was the Scientific Managing Editor for Ocean Engineering, Applied Ocean Research, Coastal Engineering and Marine Structures, Associate Editor of Frontiers in Energy Research and editor board member of several international journals. He is an ITTC committee member and sectary of ITTC Maneuvering Committee. He is currently leading the Hydrodynamics and Ocean Renewable Energy Laboratory (HOREL) at Strathclyde. His research work on wave interference has been selected as Focus on Fluids article by Journal of Fluid Mechanics, and highlighted by Nature (Nature. 565(7741):538), and been widely reported by TheTimes, DailyMail, Today Headline, ScienceNews, 知识分子, etc. In 2022, he received the 32nd Ig Nobel Prize in the field of physics for “trying to understand why ducklings are swimming in formation”, and gave a public lectures at MIT.

Professor Atilla Incecik

Prior to his appointment as Associate Principal (Internationalisation) at the University of Strathclyde, Professor Incecik was Associate Principal & Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering. Before that, he was Acting Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Head of Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering at the University, and the Lloyd’s Register Chair of Offshore Engineering and Founding Head of School of Marine Science and Technology at Newcastle University. His current research includes development of dynamic load and response prediction tools for ships, offshore platforms and marine renewable energy devices. Professor Incecik is Research Manager of Industrial Doctoral Centre for Offshore Renewable Energy (IDCORE).

Professor Incecik is Editor-in-Chief of Ocean Engineering Journal.

OSMAN TURAN

OSMAN TURAN is a Professor of Marine Design and the Director of Maritime Human Factors Centre at the Department of Naval Architecture, Marine and Ocean Engineering, University of Strathclyde.  His expertise is on Safe and Energy-Efficient Marine design and operations, including maritime human factors.  

He has been working on green shipping with a focus on Energy Saving Devices and ship operations covering, energy saving devices, biofouling, voyage optimisation for energy efficiency, port-ship interaction and crew awareness and training for energy efficiency. 

Prof Turan has extensive experience managing projects while serving as the international scientific advisor to the Norwegian National project ‘ Smart Maritime  Project’. He has been involved in more than 100 research and consultancy projects. Prof Turan has participated as an investigator in EPSRC’s largest-ever funded marine research projects in energy efficiency: Low Carbon Shipping (2010-2013) and Shipping in Changing Climates (2013-2017). Prof Turan was the coordinator of FP7 SEAHORSE project, which received the LR-RINA maritime safety award 2017 and the scientific co-ordinator for the recently completed H2020 SAFEMODE project in collaboration with aviation industry.  Prof Turan was also the winner of the 2018 TRAVISION (TRA 2018) Senior European Researcher Award in waterborne transport organised by the European Commission.

Tomoki Ikoma

Tomoki Ikoma is Professor and Vice Dean in the Department of Oceanic Architecture and Engineering at Nihon University, Japan.

Since the issuance of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, all of renewable energies have been developed around the world. Many countries have invested a great deal of money in research and commercialization of ocean renewable energy.

The lecture provides a brief history of development of ocean renewable energy and the kind of devices to harvest ocean energy. As well as it is explained how ocean energies are converted to electrical energy using a device corresponding to each ocean energy. At last, I will introduce my own recent researches to harvest wave power, tidal current power and ocean wind power briefly.

Course Contact

Aichun feng: fengaichun@sjtu.edu.cn