Azimut staged a press convention on the Cannes Yachting Pageant targeted on its efforts to cut back environmental affect by reducing CO2 emissions.
The shipyard offered the outcomes of its efforts, licensed by an unbiased scientific panel, and the brand new objectives to be pursued with its companions: the Politecnico di Torino, Eni Sustainable Mobility, Lloyd’s Register and Superyacht Eco Affiliation, a non-profit organisation created by the Yacht Membership de Monaco and Credit score Suisse. Milestones in Azimut’s inexperienced path embody the primary gas cell examined on board, the primary hybrid yacht and a fleet of Low Emission Yachts that emit as much as 30 per cent much less CO2 than comparable boats with shaft line propulsion.
Giovanna Vitelli, Chair of the Azimut-Benetti Group, mentioned: “We don’t simply anticipate the options of the long run, however we mix tomorrow-oriented analysis with at this time’s concrete solutions, validating our analysis with the most effective scientific and certification our bodies.”
Its strategy entails the seek for alternate options to fossil fuels, an exercise carried out by the Group’s R&D division, which entails scouting and testing of options starting from biodiesel to artificial fuels. The will to judge which resolution might be instantly relevant and efficient with a scientific and goal technique led the shipyard to contact the Power Division of the Politecnico di Torino and Professor Massimo Santarelli, professor of Superior Power Techniques on the Piedmont college and the KTH Royal Institute of Expertise in Stockholm.
The Politecnico, drawing on the expertise gained within the automotive and aviation sectors, carried out an unbiased, intensive examine on different fuels for the pleasure boating business. The examine analyses HVO biodiesel, methanol and hydrogen, evaluating their effectivity, security, availability and prices in a brief and medium-term horizon.
Offered by Professor Santarelli, the outcomes highlighted some great benefits of biodiesel in comparison with methanol and hydrogen. Inexperienced or artificial methanol, the sort efficient in decreasing CO2 emissions, is an possibility that can’t be applied within the quick time period as a consequence of essential points associated to manufacturing and distribution, however might be promising in a long run. Grey methanol, then again, has the next life cycle footprint than conventional diesel. Hydrogen represents a distant different as a result of complexities of storage and secure administration on board.
“In the present day, biodiesel is the one viable different to fossil gas and at the moment the simplest to contribute to the decarbonization of the pleasure boat sector,” Professor Santarelli mentioned.
HVO biodiesel is at present among the many most mature options, prepared for quick and sensible use, as adoption doesn’t require important adjustments to the storage or propulsion system. The examine by the Politecnico di Torino underlined the Group’s latest collaboration with Eni Sustainable Mobility, the Eni firm devoted to accelerating the trail in the direction of mobility carbon neutrality. The settlement, introduced in June, entails changing the gas used for sea trials, technical exams and transfers of prototypes and newly produced boats – roughly 700,000 litres in complete per 12 months – with HVOlution.
The Eni biofuel is constructed from renewable* uncooked supplies and reduces CO2 emissions by as much as 90 per cent in comparison with the reference fossil combine, relying on the precise uncooked supplies used for its manufacturing**. The R&D division of Azimut-Benetti Group was the primary to extensively take a look at the HVOlution biofuel to be used within the nautical sector. Azimut additionally used biodiesel in particular laboratory exams of the brand new Magellano 60 which, in the course of the summer season, sailed within the Mediterranean powered by HVO.
The exams recorded a discount in well-to-wake CO2 emissions of greater than 80 per cent in comparison with a yacht of comparable dimension powered by fossil gas.
Azimut-Benetti collaboration with Lloyd’s Register and SEA Index
After 20 years of analysis to cut back CO2 emissions, the shipyard is observing important progress within the relevance of emissions as a discriminating issue within the buy of a yacht. This pattern highlights the absence of standardised, clear info that permits homeowners to gather, learn and examine knowledge and rankings, that are usually provided within the automotive and actual property industries.
The group has began to collaborate with Lloyd’s Register and the Superyacht Eco Affiliation, which by way of the SEA Index calculates the CO2 emissions of yachts from 25-100m and past. In September, Azimut grew to become a company member of the SEA Index to help the affiliation within the definition of an goal carbon emission index that allows comparability for yachts below 24m.
Azimut, along with Lloyd’s Register – one of many major classification our bodies within the maritime sector – has realised a consumption and CO2 emissions certification plan in customary situations.
Based mostly on the exams carried out with Azimut yachts and a database built-in with the shipyard’s findings, Lloyd’s has developed a comparability index for the Superyacht Eco Affiliation which expresses CO2 emissions in relation to the amount of the boat and the reference pace (g CO2/GT.NM), knowledge held by all shipyards and simply detectable throughout a sea trial.
The index has important standards and may change into some extent of reference for producers, technicians and specialists within the sector.
Natalie Quévert, Common Secretary of the Superyacht Eco Affiliation, mentioned: “SEA Index was created to mobilize the sector to undertake concrete interventions to cut back CO2 emissions. Because of the partnership with Azimut, SEA Index may certify yachts below 24m, with the ambition of reaching numerous homeowners to start out an unprecedented motion.”
Azimut has laid the foundations to create a brand new, extra aware section of the nautical business to cut back the environmental affect. It’s going to progressively certify all new boats with the intention of constructing consumption and emissions knowledge accessible for session. The brand new ambassadors of the shipyard’s inexperienced route, the Seadeck 9 and the Grande 30M, are among the many first fashions concerned within the programme.
The Seadeck 9 has been introduced because the third Seadeck mannequin representing the primary collection of hybrid yachts for households and essentially the most environment friendly ever created by Azimut, attaining a discount in CO2 emissions of as much as 40 per cent, between navigation and time spent at anchor, in comparison with a conventional flybridge boat of comparable dimension.
The Grande 30M, previewed in the course of the press convention in Cannes, marks a brand new stage within the shipyard’s collaboration with ZF. This mode would be the first outfitted with the brand new POD 4900, developed by Azimut in partnership with ZF.
Marco Valle, CEO of the Azimut-Benetti Group, mentioned: “Lower than one 12 months in the past, I introduced the Group’s want to contain the nautical world within the improvement of an goal index to check consumption and emissions. In the present day, due to the collaboration with Lloyd’s and SEA Index, that software exists. The Azimut yachts in Cannes are displayed with their key affect knowledge, licensed by a 3rd occasion and shared with homeowners in addition to the general public.”
* Pursuant to EU Directive 2018/2001 “REDII”.
** In keeping with the standard criterion of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 “REDII”, the discount in CO2eq emissions of the HVOlution alongside the logistics-production chain in 2022 was between 60% and 90%, in comparison with the combination reference fossil (i.e. 94g CO2eq/MJ), relying on the uncooked supplies used for its manufacturing.
This text was first printed on yachtstyle.co
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