The specific challenge for waterborne transport call MG4.1 is, “To support developments that make new and existing vessels…more efficient and less polluting”. A sound way to support developments is, to demonstrate solutions that are sufficiently close to market so that ship owners will consider these in their future investment plans. Following this reasoning LeanShips will execute 8 demonstration actions that combine technologies for efficient, less polluting new/retrofitted vessels with end users’ requirements. Demonstrators were selected for their end-user commitment (high realisation chance), impact on energy use/emissions, EU-relevance, innovativeness and targeted-TRL at the project end. Selected technologies (TRL3-4 and higher) address engines/fuels/drive trains, hull/propulsors, energy systems/emission abatement technologies. Technologies are demonstrated mostly at full-scale and evidence is provided on energy and emission performance in operational environments. The LeanShips partnership contains ship owners, shipyards and equipment suppliers, in total 48 partners from industry (81%) and other organisations. Industry has a leading role in each demonstrator. Target markets are the smaller-midsized ships for intra-European waterborne transport, vessels for offshore operations and the leisure/cruise market. First impact estimates show fuel saving of up to 25 %, CO2 at least up to 25%, and SOx/NOx/PM 10-100%. These estimates will be updated during the project. First market potential estimates for the LeanShips partnership and for markets beyond the partnership are promising. Project activities are structured into 3 layers: Basis layer with 8 focused demonstrators (WP 04-11), Integration layer with QA, Innovation Platform and Guide to Innovation (WP02), Dissemination and Market-uptake (WP03), and top Management layer (WP01), in total 11 Work Packages. The demonstrators represent an industry investment of ca. M€ 57, the required funding is M€ 17,25.

The fast industrial spreading of carbon capture and storage technologies (CCS) is a requirement in order to ensure a very effective lever effect on the emissions at a planetary scale; consequently, almost all of the current CCS projects at a pilot scale in many countries deal with the issues of considerable emission tonnages (thermal plants, steel industries and cement factories in particular) and use technologies of first generation (amine washing for post-combustion and oxycombustion captures). The issues of the emissions of the sectors producing between 25,000 and 100,000 CO2 tonnes per year, which represent a significant proportion of the whole tonnage, have never been studied on a pilot scale. The objectives of the project “CO2 EnergiCapt” is to fill this gap by developing the first pilot realization of carbon dioxide capture devoted to the production of urban heat distribution system like first application. A technical solution of first generation was adopted for capture (solvent absorption), with a minimization of the ratio CO2 eq emitted/kWh. The combination between the improvement of the combustion efficiencies on the existing installations using a oxygen-enriched air feeding, the thermal integration of the solvent regeneration process, the intensification of the capture step by membrane contactors, the conception and the validation in situ of an integrated pilot, constitutes the strong points and the originalities of the project which is based on a consortium bringing together an industrial leader in the boiler technologies for urban heat distribution system (LLT), a specialist in the membrane pilot conceptions (Polymem), two CNRS laboratories having expertises in the field of combustion (ICARE) and of the CCS process (LRGP), and a potential user of the large-scale technology (CPCU) which will receive the pilot study. The steps of storage and valorisation of CO2, which are specific research objects, are not included in the proposed program. However, they will be taken into account in the global strategy of this study. The main lines of development and research will deal with: the increase of energy efficiency of the installations and the optimization of the separation and the capture.