Project

The development of a new control system for marine antennas can give sailors and their contacts on land less hassle with bad connections and low data speeds. A Danish patented antenna system will be improved with ideas for control and stabilization at Aalborg University. The results will put the company in Hobro in front on a developing maritime market.

While the oceans are attracting growing attention, people at sea still receive little consideration by stakeholders, scholars and the public at large. The frequent violations of their most basic human rights, which safeguard their life, liberty and health, often go unseen and unpunished. This happens all over the world, including in European seas. Thus, death, slavery, unlawful arrest and other human rights violations result in practical negation of the universality of human rights – the idea that all persons are equally entitled to human rights – advocated by the European Union and the United Nations. The Action aims to assess, from a legal perspective, how human rights can be enjoyed also by people at sea and by all people at sea. It will answer two fundamental questions: What is the content and scope of the rights to life, liberty and health when applied at sea and who is responsible for protecting them and how? The Action will create an international, multidisciplinary, cross-sectoral and cross-institutional network, which will engage in depth with the conceptual and practical issues that arise from the need to protect these human rights of people at sea. Using the most appropriate means, including conferences, open and closed workshops, Training Schools and Short-Term Scientific Missions, the Action will bring together scholars and stakeholders working in this area, raising awareness about people at sea and their most basic rights, elaborating the theoretical framework within which to locate legislative efforts, and producing ready-to-use tools for governments, industry and civil society.

Through five technological projects, SLGreen aims to develop digital tools to reduce fuel consumption in Danish shipping, improve ship performance, optimize hull maintenance, monitor engine condition and implement remote navigation.
The transversal anthropological project, Senses & Sensors, will add an analysis of human competencies and explore dynamics in the execution of the projects.
SLGreen is supported by the Innovation Fund Denmark, the Danish Maritime Foundation and the Lauritzen Foundation.

Methods for predicting stochastic wave load responses in ships and offshore structures are developed. The methods
take into account the dynamic behaviour of the structures and at least some of the non-linearities in the wave induced
loadings. Numerical results obtained for actual structures are presented with special emphasis on their usefulness in
design procedures covering both extreme responses and fatigue damage predictions.

The recent IMO Resolution MSC 19(58) points towards a more rational way of obtaining subdivisions in ships to ensure a sufficient stability in damage conditions. In the preliminary ship design phase it is important to know how the attained index and the possible oil outflow in a collision are influenced by the actual positions of the watertight bulkheads. This information should be given in form of sensitivity factors yielding the change in attained index and oil outflow for a unit reposition of user-defined bulkheads. A rational procedure to achieve this information is
developed.

The project focuses on supporting the Danish strategy on decarbonization by means of accelerating the implementation and scaling of green Power-to-X (PtX) technologies in Denmark. A pivotal part in such acceleration is to build well- functioning and safe infrastructures of storage, handling, and bunkering in Danish ports, as these play a key part as future green energy hubs. The project apply techno -anthropological theories and methodologies to explore and unpack possible safety concerns and ethical controversies within social acceptance among stakeholders across the PtX value chain in two Danish ports: Rønne and Aarhus. Based on this, the project develops a handbook with guidelines and tools on how to establish social agreements on safety in PtX projects. Thus, the project taps into topics in the themed area of green research and technology development, i.e. developing new energy systems while also understanding societal consequences of these, and drafting tools.
supporting this shift.

The work package explores the application of the new developments in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to improve accident analysis completeness and predictability. The findings will be illustrated by analyzing ongoing safety challenges in constructing, operating, and maintaining energy hubs in the North and Baltic Seas. Energinet and its partners (research collaborators involved in development of the energy hubs) have suggested the analysis of diving and deck operations during the installation, maintenance, and repair of subsea cables and operations related to ship traffic.

The region of Southern Denmark has had a long historical tradition for a strong involvement in the maritime sector, but the region has for the last 50 years been especially known for its deep involvement in the offshore sector, with Esbjerg as a key location in Northern Europe. The sector is now well-established and continues to grow, currently undertaking a radical transformation. This development is influenced by different factors, including an increase in offshore oil and gas decommissioning, as well as the rapidly growing offshore wind farms and plans for building large energy islands. These islands will serve as electro fuel production and bunkering facilities but will also become hubs that facilitate better connections between the energy generated from offshore wind constructions and the zero emission energy systems ashore. These developments all lead to important challenges and opportunities for the maritime sector. For instance, a strong focus on the maritime offshore sector is essential to realize the plans for developing the energy offshore sector and the connected goals for costs, efficiency, sustainability, performance etc. in all stages of the life cycle, from design, construction, operation, and maintenance to the final decommissioning. The maritime offshore activities will therefore be essential for reaching the United Nations (UN) 2030 and 2050 climate targets. The idea of the project is to investigate multiple aspects of this transition.
The project portfolio consists of six interconnected work packages (WP 1-6) that serve as part of a holistic collaboration platform that will significantly energize the maritime research at SDU. The topics are interdisci-plinary and cover a wide range of maritime disciplines, such as:

• Sustainability, safety, and risks
• Energy efficiency, maintenance, propulsion technologies and fuels
• Business history
• Business and Logistics
• Regulation
• Human factors, health, socio-economic issues
• Naval architecture and maritime operations

All work packages, though separate in their research focus, are interconnected and important to the project, as the breadth and interdisciplinarity of the initiative is what makes it unique in a Danish context.

SDU Maritime research platform is an interdisciplinary research platform with researcher from four different faculties at SDU (Health, Humanities, Social Science and Engineering). The work is related to research in the maritime part of the offshore sector. The topics cover a wide range of disciplines as e.g., sustainability, safety, risk, human factors, history, logistics, business, regulation, naval architecture, energy, and maritime operations.