Books

Green Ship - Maritime Energy Management System

Authors: Professor Reza Ziarati, Zakirul Bhuiyan, German de Melo, Heikki Koivisto, Aris Chronopoulos, Tomaz Gregoric

Publication Date: 22/05/2025

In line with the EU’s vision of ensuring a high, uniform and effective level of maritime safety and marine environment protection, C4FF has initiated many educational and training programmes, several in the form of competence-based e-learning. A number of these have been awarded the ‘Best in Europe’. All C4FF maritime courses are accredited by major and internationally well-known professional bodies such as IMarEST or co-jointly developed with well-respected European maritime universities.

In 2010, after successful launching of EGMDSS, Ship Automation (SURPASS), Emergency situations (M’aider), Test of Maritime English (MarTEL) and helping companies to develop their ERM and BRM competences, C4FF with funding from the EU initiated the UniMET project2. UniMET is a unified competence-based ECVET and ETCS compliant education and training programme for maritime academies worldwide. C4FF projects viz., Avoiding Accidents at Sea (ACTs) and ACTS Plus, attracted over 200000 users. All C4FF courses have been offered free-of-charge. ACTS Plus contains over 300 collision avoidance scenarios/simulations9.

Projects IdealShip, LeanShip and IdealPort led to a new project namely, Maritime Energy Management System (MariEMS). As part of the MariEMS project 6(https://www.mariems.com/) some 34 chapters were compiled. This book summarised the 36 Chapters and into 14 training chapters on Energy Management Systems and was developed to support IMO Train the Trainer (TTT) Course on Energy Efficient Ship Operation. MariEMS project specifically was designed for Training the Trainees in energy management and pollution reduction practices.

The MariEMS work is continuing in the form of a new programme, the Digital Twin of Ship Internal Combustion Engines, which can help engines use different types and mix of fuels enabling means to adjust valve timing, fuel injection characteristic, water injection and so forth during the various phases of the engine cycle. C4FF is of the view that the life cycle of most ships is some 30 years. To this end, means to configure engines to use different type of fuels and mixes at different part of the cycle would help reduce both fuel consumption and to reduce emissions of harmful pollutants.

Green Ship Maritime Energy Management System Workbook

Authors: Professor Reza Ziarati, Zakirul Bhuiyan, German de Melo, Heikki Koivisto

Publication Date: 22/05/2025

In this workbook the questions are designed to help readers assess their understanding and learn from any mistakes. To further enhance learning, each multiple-choice question includes a confidence check, allowing learners to indicate how sure they are of their answers. If a learner selects the correct answer but reports less than 50% confidence, the answer is not marked as correct, highlighting the need for further review. Conversely, if a learner confidently selects an incorrect answer (with over 50% confidence), it indicates a gap in understanding, and the learner is advised to revisit the relevant chapter. For those seeking CPD certification and ECVET credit, an external assessment and an assignment are available. Samples of both the external assessment and the assignment are included in this workbook.