Postgraduate Diploma in Maritime Energy Management 2014 is a course that covers topics such as:
- Energy Efficiency and Ship Design
- Frictional and viscous resistance reduction
- Ship design and energy efficiency
- Ship construction and shipboard equipment
- Ship propulsion improvement designs - Pre-swirl, propeller and post-swirl
- Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI)
- Energy efficient ship design for life cycle considerations
- Retrofitting
- Energy efficiency and shipboard emissions
- Introduction to Energy Management and the International Response in Shipping
- Energy sources and focus on fossil fuels
- Important notions relating to energy
- Energy type: a social choice
- Energy security
- Impacts of air emissions: local pollution to global climate change
- Energy management principals, policies and their rationale
- Shipping community response to air emissions control
- The international response to air pollution (IPCC, UNFCCC, the Kyoto Protocol etc.)
- Energy efficiency policy and the International Maritime Organization (IMO)
- Promotion of energy efficiency in shipping
- MARPOL Annex VI
- Energy Management On-board Ship
- Energy audit and review
- Overview of ship-board activities
- System planning for energy efficiency
- Ship performance monitoring
- Maintenance for energy efficiency
- Energy Efficient Ship Operations
- Fleet optimisation
- Ship management, legal aspects and energy efficiency
- Slow steaming
- Ship loading management
- Trim optimisation
- Weather routing and e-navigation
- Ship ballast requirements
- Ballast water management
- Ship loading to ensure stability and safety
- IMO guidelines on ballast water management
- Port operation and green ports
- Optimal ballast and best practice
- Alternative Fuels and Marine Renewable Energy
- Alternative fuels
- Motivation, MARPOL Annex VI Chapter 3, air pollutants
- Renewable Energy
Postgraduate Diploma in Maritime Energy Management 2014 is intended for:
- Middle to senior managers in shipping and related industries, including transport, maritime trade, offshore energy and logistics