Designing safe battery installations onboard a maritime vessel from an engineers point of view by Erik Lisber Borum, OSK Design

During the design of a vessel, many points need to be considered, Erik will have a walk through the following points during his presentation.

• Why install batteries onboard a vessel?
• A few interesting rules and regulations when installing batteries
• Challenges with new buildings compared to conventional vessels
• Challenges with retrofit projects adding batteries or replacing diesel engines with batteries.

From the meeting: Battery Technology in Shipping