Safe and sustainable maritime and offshore

Why TNO

Our unique contribution is providing an integrated approach combining numerical models with validation in the lab and in the field. Our expertise includes structural behaviour, lifetime of systems and assets, powertrain development and emissions monitoring.

Multi-domain expertise

The TNO multi-domain expertise stretches from materials and structures, process optimization, power management, emission monitoring and digitalization. Internally, there is a close collaboration between experts working in domains like mobility, construction, energy/materials transition, defence and safety/ security. This enables TNO to incorporate state-of-the-art knowledge on sensoring, structural reliability, emission modelling, digitalization, probabilistics, security and powertrains into maritime and offshore.

Facilities

Lab facilities typically applied for maritime and offshore studies comprise of the Delft Building Innovation Lab and the Structural Dynamics lab for testing of steel and composite components (fatigue, ultimate limit state, corrosion, shock, vibrations, flexibility) and systems in realistic environments. In the facilities of TNO Ypenburg, we test materials and components in cryogenic, high-pressure environments for application of hydrogen.

At the Innovation Centre for Sustainable Powertrains we test fuel cells, batteries and non-fossile fuels such as hydrogen, methanol and ammonia for conversion or retrofit of existing combustion engines. Finally TNO also has testing facilities for measuring emissions in realistic and extreme environments as well as the development of aftertreatment strategies.

Collaboration

To create the most valuable impact TNO works closely with academia, i.e. TU Delft, TU Eindhoven and knowledge institutes, i.e. MARIN, Deltares, for bridging fundamental knowledge to practice in multi-partner national and international projects. This enables us for example to provide proof to the certification process of components and structures, as well as applicable knowledge for design, operation and maintenance.