Ship Performance and Emission Prediction

A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Ocean Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 October 2025 | Viewed by 783

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School of Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle NE1 7RU, UK
Interests: sustainable shipping; ballast water management systems; ship performance and emission prediction; life cycle assessment for marine engineering systems and alternative fuels, including biofuels and propulsion system arrangements, such as fuel cells, shipping environmental index and incentives
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Interests: hybrid-electric propulsion systems; fuel and emissions monitoring; marine renewable systems; tidal current turbines and associated electrical power converters; marine electrical systems; shore supplies; hybrid marine propulsion
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The international Maritime Organisation (IMO) adopted the 2023 Strategy on reduction in GHG emissions from ships. This strategy now incorporating a net-zero GHG emission goal to be achieved by or around 2050. In line with this updated strategy, transitioning from current situation, ship performance and emission prediction are essential for improving the efficiency and sustainability of maritime transport. This involves predicting various operational factors such as fuel consumption, speed and emission levels based on the ship’s design, operational conditions and environmental factors.

We are looking for papers dealing with disruptive solutions for improving ship performance and emission prediction, to demonstrate alignment with the IMO strategy. This includes data driven prediction models, computational fluid dynamics to predicts ship’s hull and other design factor affecting fuel consumption, hybrid or alternative green fuels for future maritime transport systems, and use of renewable energy sources for the maritime propulsion systems and port facilities.

Dr. Kayvan Pazouki
Dr. Rosemary Norman
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Keywords

  • ship performance and efficiency
  • alternative fuels and propulsion arrangements
  • ship’s emission assessment and indicators
  • sustainable shipping
  • energy saving technologies
  • emission prediction

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Performance Evaluation of Combined Wind-Assisted Propulsion and Organic Rankine Cycle Systems in Ships
by Shibo Zhao, Kayvan Pazouki and Rosemary Norman
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2025, 13(7), 1287; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse13071287 - 30 Jun 2025
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With the increasingly stringent regulation of ship carbon emissions by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), improving ship energy efficiency has become a key research direction in the current shipping industry. This paper proposes and evaluates a comprehensive energy-saving solution that integrates a wind-assisted [...] Read more.
With the increasingly stringent regulation of ship carbon emissions by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), improving ship energy efficiency has become a key research direction in the current shipping industry. This paper proposes and evaluates a comprehensive energy-saving solution that integrates a wind-assisted propulsion system (WAPS) and an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) waste heat power generation system. By establishing an energy efficiency simulation model of a typical ocean-going cargo ship, the appropriate optimal system configuration parameters and working fluids are determined based on minimizing the total fuel consumption, and the impact of these two energy-saving technologies on fuel consumption is systematically analyzed. The simulation results show that the simultaneous use of these two energy-saving technologies can achieve the highest energy efficiency, with the maximum fuel savings of approximately 21%. This study provides a theoretical basis and engineering reference for the design of ship energy-saving systems. Full article
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