ANALYSIS • NORDIC INNOVATION Maersk product tanker to trial Norsepower rotor sails
Riski, aged 38, has been recognised for Norsepower’s innovative achievement by winning the Young Entrepreneur Award 2017, organised by Nor-Shipping and YoungShip.
Tuomas Riski
By Bob Jaques
Maersk Tankers is to install and trial Norsepower Oy’s Rotor Sail Solution – a modernised version of Flettner rotor sails invented back in the 1920s – on one of its LR2 tankers, the first use of wind-powered energy technology on a product tanker vessel.
Retrofitting of two 30mtr tall by 5mtr diameter rotor sails on a 109,647dwt vessel will take place during H1 2018, before testing through until the end-2019. Average fuel savings of 7-10% are expected on normal routes, say the makers.
The project is majority funded by the UK’s Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) with Shell Shipping & Maritime to act as project coordinator.
Average fuel savings of 7-10% are expected on normal routes
The Flettner rotor is a spinning cylinder that uses the Magnus effect to harness wind power to propel a ship. When wind conditions are favourable, the main engines can be throttled back, providing a net fuel cost and emission savings.
Norsepower ceo Tuomas Riski (pictured) says he hopes the trial will ‘open up the market for our technology to a larger number of long-range product tanker vessels – paving the way for ship fuel efficiencies, and ultimately reducing emissions, including greenhouse gases.’
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