Two 17-metre tall eSAILs sails were installed on the general cargo vessel EEMS Traveller, owned by Amasus Shipping company, with the support of the Port Authority of Bilbao, Bilbao PortLab, Toro y Betolaza and Haizea Wind Group.<\/p>\n
They are the largest suction sails to be built and installed to date on a ship.<\/p>\n
Wind focus<\/strong><\/p>\n The installation, approved by Bureau Veritas, was completed under the auspices of the Sails for Cargo project, co-funded by the Ports 4.0 Fund of the State Ports Authority.<\/p>\n These sails use a thick-walled aerodynamic profile equipped with a smart suction system to increase its aerodynamic efficiency, giving rise to a technology that generates seven times more thrust than the wing of an airplane.<\/p>\n The project\u2019s aim is to test the new and improved generation of this automated wind-assisted propulsion system designed to reduce fuel costs and pollutant emission levels.<\/p>\n Using this technology could potentially bring about a reduction in fuel consumption of up to 40%, depending on factors such as the type of vessel itself, its operational profile and the winds in the areas where it generally operates.<\/p>\n The sails were installed in two phases. A year ago, during a regular and scheduled dry-dock service of the vessel, the foundations for both the eSAILs were manufactured and installed in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n Subsequently, the sails manufactured by Haizea Wind at its plant in Aranda del Duero were vertically positioned and installed and all internal elements duly integrated. The operation to lift the system into a vertical position was performed by the company Toro y Betolaza.<\/p>\n bound4blue is monitoring the consumption data of the vessel to obtain its baseline performance, which will then be used by a third party to assess results in terms of fuel savings and emissions reduction over the next 12 months.<\/p>\n This will enable scientifically validated results to be obtained and used to quantify the actual effects of the system on board the vessel and to form the basis for future development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Spain\u2019s Port of Bilbao has become the installation site for the largest suction sails in the world setting itself up to become a centre for wind power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,46],"tags":[1087,181,1137,337],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport","category-energy-technology-greenport","tag-port-of-bilbao","tag-renewable-energy","tag-sails-for-cargo-project","tag-wind-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3514,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions\/3514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3512"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}