Critical Assessment of Energy Efficiency Technologies for Marine
Vessels

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Nature of Requirements: 
Title:  Critical Assessment of Energy Efficiency Technologies
for Marine Vessels

W7707-155772/A
LeBlanc, JoAnne
Telephone No. - (902) 496-5010 
Fax No. - (902) 496-5016

Scope
A critical assessment of scientific studies and product
literature on technologies designed to increase energy
efficiency of marine vessels without modification of diesel
engine components.  An assessment of the state-of-the-art in
energy efficiency measures for diesel-powered marine vessels.  A
feasibility assessment of implementation of energy technologies
on current and future Royal Canadian Navy vessels.

Background
A number of measures exist whereby diesel-powered marine vessels
can achieve significant improvements in energy efficiency to
help reduce emissions of priority air pollutants and reduce fuel
costs. Technologies/strategies to achieve optimal energy
efficiency include, but are not limited to, voyage performance
management (voyage speed optimization, weather routing/safe and
energy efficient route selection, trim/draft optimization,
adaptive autopilot systems), reduction of onboard power demand,
use of alternative energy sources, and real-time monitoring of
fuel consumption in relation to key operations parameters
(vessel speed, distance traveled, weather, engine RPM, draft,
trim, etc.). 

Requirement
DRDC Atlantic has identified energy efficiency technologies for
marine diesel vessels as an area for investigation.  The
contractor shall:

Provide a consice summary of product literature for commercially
available marine diesel vessel upgrades/retrofit packages that
claim improvements in energy efficiency without modification of
diesel engine components. 

Critically review scientific literature reports of diesel vessel
energy efficiency optimization studies. These reports may be
based on laboratory-scale experiments, such as those utilizing
model diesel vessles incorporating efficiency optimization
technologies of interest.  Alternately the reports may be based
on actual ship data in which energy consumption has been
measured after modification of vessel operating parameters.

The solicitation document contains complete details on the
requirement and the bid evaluation and contractor selection
methodology.

Time Schedule:
To begin upon contrct award and completed by March 15, 2015.

Basis of selection:  will be based on the highest point rated
complient bid within budget.

Funding:
The maximum funding available for the Contract resulting from
the bid solicitation is $25,000.00 + applicable taxes.

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