Flettner rotor savings calculator.

An interactive tool to determine the potential impact on the net propulsion fuel consumption when operating a Flettner Rotor System.

The Energy Technology Institute’s Flettner Rotor System Tool – Built by Lloyd’s Register’s Ship Performance Group

This tool was developed using in-service performance data aquired from the Maersk Pelican that was fitted with a Flettner Rotor System (FRS) in September 2018. Lloyd's Register has used this data together with well-known ship performance calculation methods, published aerodynamic coefficients of generic merchant ship types, and average global wind statistics for the world's oceans, to develop the tool.

It provides an estimate of the propulsion fuel savings potential for many types of merchant ships when using a FRS, and for any trading route in the world. The tool has the flexibility to explore many types of ship partculars, FRS arranagments, sailing routes, operating profiles and seasonal variations.

To request further information regarding this tool or energy efficiency advisory services, please contact the Lloyd's Register Ship Performance Group at tid@lr.org


By using this calculator, you agree to the terms of use stated below

Conditions of use Last updated: 17/01/2020

Please read these Condtions of Use carefully before using the http://flettner.lr.org/ website.

Lloyd’s Register Advisory Services BV

Licence for the Flettner Rotor System Tool

BACKGROUND

The Flettner Rotor System (FRS) Tool was developed under the Energy Technologies Institute’s HDV Marine Flettner Vessel Performance Monitoring, Data Analysis and System Modelling Project.

The project was commissioned by the ETI and delivered by Lloyd’s Register EMEA.

INTRODUCTION TO THIS FRS TOOL LICENCE

Under the terms of a licence agreement between the ETI and Lloyd’s Register Advisory Services BV (“Lloyd’s Register”), Lloyd’s Register is making available a version of the FRS Tool for use by You under the terms and conditions of this FRS Tool Licence.

You are encouraged to Use the FRS Tool subject to only a limited number of conditions.

A Glossary of the expressions used in this FRS Tool Licence is provided at Annex 1.

FRS TOOL LICENCE AND CONDITIONS OF USE

By downloading and/or Using the FRS Tool, You are confirming Your acceptance of and agreeing to be bound by the terms and conditions of this FRS Tool Licence.

In consideration of You agreeing to be bound by the terms of this FRS Tool Licence, Lloyd’s Register grants You a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable single-user licence, commencing on the Effective Date, to Use the FRS Tool, both commercially and non-commercially, subject to the conditions set out in this FRS Tool Licence, below.

You are free to:

  1. download and install the FRS Tool on a single personal computer (one central processing unit);
  2. run the FRS Tool to generate FRS Tool Outputs;
  3. use FRS Tool Outputs and data/information derived from FRS Tool Outputs, including (without limitation) with other applications;
  4. use and disseminate Output Media; and
  5. perform any activity referred to above for a third party, including for an employer (in the course of Your employment) and for anyone to whom You provide consultancy or sub-contracted services (in the course of providing such services), subject to You being wholly responsible to that third party in relation to You performing any of the foregoing activities for such third party (see “Other Important Terms” section, below).

You must:

  • acknowledge Your Use of the FRS Tool by including in a prominent position in all Output Media:
    • the following acknowledgement: “Some or all of the contents of this [report][presentation][document][diagram][graph][other]1were produced using the Energy Technologies Institute’s Flettner Rotor System Tool developed by Lloyd’s Register.”; and
    • a statement that the Flettner Rotor System Tool is a copyright work of the Energy Technologies Institute, sub-licensed to You by Lloyd’s Register under this FRS Tool Licence; and

You must not:

  • reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, modify, merge, alter, vary, and/or adapt the FRS Tool or any part thereof (including without limitation by combining the FRS Tool or any part thereof with (or incorporating the FRS Tool or any part thereof in) any other program(s), model(s) and/or software);
  • copy, disclose, publish, translate, distribute, provide and/or transmit the FRS Tool (or any part thereof);
  • rent, lease, sub-license or loan the FRS Tool (or any part thereof); or
  • sub-licence, assign, transfer, mortgage, charge, sub-contract or deal in any other manner with this FRS Tool Licence, any interest therein, or any rights and/or obligations under it,

provided that this FRS Tool Licence does not affect Your freedom under fair dealing or fair use or any other copyright or database right exceptions and limitations.

These are important conditions of this FRS Tool Licence and if You fail to comply with them the rights granted to You under this FRS Tool Licence shall end automatically, without notice and with immediate effect.

EXEMPTIONS

This FRS Tool Licence applies only to the specific version of the FRS Tool that is made available on the Website (in executable form for use as a downloadable file) and Used by You.

You must not:

  • any other version of the FRS Tool (including any version previously made available on the Website and any version obtained other than directly from the Website);
  • the source code of (or any software other than the executable version made available on the Website, or other information, relating to) the FRS Tool;
  • trade marks of the ETI, or Lloyd’s Register; and
  • any intellectual property rights other than copyright and database right (including patents, trade marks and design rights).

NON-ENDORSEMENT

This FRS Tool Licence does not grant You any right to use the FRS Tool in a way that suggests any official status or that either of the ETI or Lloyd’s Register endorses You or Your use of the FRS Tool.

NON WARRANTY AND LIABILITY

In downloading the FRS Tool, You accept the basis on which Lloyd’s Register (under licence from the ETI) makes it available for free.

The FRS Tool is made available for Use by You in accordance with this FRS Tool Licence, without charge.

Lloyd’s Register shall (for so long as it makes the FRS Tool available on the Website and subject in any event to paragraph (e) below) use commercially reasonable endeavours to make the FRS Tool available to You 24 hours a day, seven days a week. However, Lloyd’s Register does not (and, for the avoidance of doubt, the ETI does not) warrant that You will have continuous, un-interrupted or error free access to the FRS Tool and Lloyd’s Register shall not (and, for the avoidance of doubt, the ETI shall not) have any further obligation or liability of any kind to You as a result of the temporary unavailability or failure of, or errors in, the FRS Tool from time to time, whether for reasons of maintenance or otherwise.

Notwithstanding any other terms of this FRS Tool Licence:

  1. the FRS Tool is provided and licensed to you on an “as is” basis;
  2. You assume sole responsibility for results obtained from the Use of the FRS Tool and for any conclusions drawn or actions taken by You in reliance on such use or results and You shall fully and effectively indemnify each of Lloyd’s Register and the ETI against any and all claims and liability arising as a result of such use, reliance, results, conclusions or actions (or otherwise howsoever). In particular, but without limitation, neither Lloyd’s Register nor the ETI shall have any liability for any damage caused by lack of availability of or errors in the functioning of any aspect of the FRS Tool;
  3. all warranties, representations, conditions and all other terms of any kind whatsoever implied by statute or common law are, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, excluded from this licence agreement;
  4. Lloyd’s Register is under no obligation (and for the avoidance of doubt the ETI is under no obligation) to provide updates, modifications, support or maintenance of any kind for the FRS Tool; and
  5. Lloyd’s Register reserves the right at any time and in its sole discretion to amend the FRS Tool, replace the FRS Tool with another version, and/or to cease to make available the FRS Tool.

Nothing in this Agreement limits or excludes the liability of Lloyd’s Register (or the ETI): for (i) death or personal injury caused by Lloyd’s Register’s (or the ETI’s) negligence; or (ii) for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or (iii) for any other liability that cannot be limited or excluded by applicable law.

Subject to the above paragraph:

  • to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, neither Lloyd’s Register nor the ETI shall have any liability whatsoever to You under or in connection with this FRS Tool Licence, whether in tort (including for negligence or breach of statutory duty), contract, misrepresentation, restitution or otherwise howsoever, including for any loss of profits, loss of business, depletion of goodwill and/or similar losses or loss or corruption of data or information, or pure economic loss, or for any special, indirect or consequential loss, costs, damages, charges or expenses however arising under this FRS Tool Licence; and
  • in the event that, notwithstanding the limitations and/or exclusions of liability in this FRS Tool Licence, Lloyd’s Register and/or the ETI is found to be liable to You under or in connection with this FRS Tool Licence for any reason, the total aggregate liability of each of Lloyd’s Register and the ETI under or in connection with this FRS Tool Licence (whether in contract, tort (including negligence or breach of statutory duty), misrepresentation, restitution or otherwise howsoever, and including in connection with the performance or contemplated performance of this FRS Tool Licence) shall be limited to the sum of £500 (five hundred pounds sterling) in aggregate.

OTHER IMPORTANT TERMS

You acknowledge and agree that:

  • this FRS Tool Licence is solely between Lloyd’s Register (as (sub)licensor of the FRS Tool) and You (as (sub)licensee of the FRS Tool) and hence, to the fullest extent permitted by law:
    • no third party (including the ETI) shall have any obligations or liability to You arising under or in connection with this FRS Tool Licence (including in relation to the provision and/or use of the FRS Tool hereunder); and
    • no third party (including any employer of You, any person to whom You provide services and any other person for whom You use the FRS Tool) shall have any rights under or in connection with this FRS Tool Licence.
  • this FRS Tool Licence is a single user licence, allowing the use by You (only) of a single copy of the FRS Tool on a single personal computer;
  • all intellectual property rights throughout the world in and to the FRS Tool (and any and all other data and information made available to You in connection with the FRS Tool and/or this FRS Tool Licence) belong to the ETI, that the rights in and to the FRS Tool are licensed (not sold) to You and that You have no rights in or to the FRS Tool (or the aforementioned other data and information) other than the right to use them in accordance with the terms of this FRS Tool Licence;
  • You have no right to the FRS Tool (or, for the avoidance of doubt, to access the FRS Tool) in source code form;
  • the FRS Tool has not been developed for You, or to meet Your individual requirements (including without limitation Your intended purpose(s)), or to run on Your computer/operating system and You are solely responsible for determining the appropriateness of using the FRS Tool and You assume all risks associated with the exercise of any and all rights granted to You under this FRS Tool Licence;
  • each provision of this FRS Tool Licence operates separately; if any provision of this FRS Tool Licence is or becomes illegal, invalid or unenforceable in any jurisdiction(s), the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect in that (those) jurisdiction(s) (and for the avoidance of doubt all provisions of this FRS Tool Licence shall remain in full force and effect in all other jurisdictions);
  • this FRS Tool Licence is personal to You and may not be transferred or sub-licensed to any other person; and
  • the ETI (and each of its successors and assigns) may in its own right enforce the terms and conditions of this FRS Tool Licence against You; save as aforesaid, nothing in this FRS Tool Licence gives rise to any rights under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any provision of this FRS Tool Licence.

GOVERNING LAW

This FRS Tool Licence and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it (including without limitation any non-contractual claims or disputes) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales, and Lloyd’s Register and You irrevocably submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

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ANNEX 1

GLOSSARY (DEFINITIONS / INTERPRETATION)

DEFINITIONS

In this FRS Tool Licence, the expressions below have the following meanings:

'Effective Date' means the date upon which You first use or download the FRS Tool.

'ETI' means the Energy Technologies Institute LLP, a limited liability partnership (company number OC333553), whose registered office is at Charnwood Building, Holywell Park, Loughborough, LE11 3AQ.

'FRS Tool' means the specific version of the Fletter Rotor System Tool is made available on this Website.

'FRS Tool Licence' means this document, including this annex.

'FRS Tool Outputs' means those maps, charts, pictures, tables, data and other outputs generated by running the FRS Tool.

'Lloyd’s Register' means Lloyd’s Register Advisory Services BV, a private limited liability company with its statutory seat in Serooskerke, the Netherlands, and its office address at Gapingseweg 1 A, 4353 JA Serooskerke, the Netherlands, registered with the trade register of the Chamber of Commerce under file number 22030572.

'Output Media' means any and all documents (including without limitation reports, records, papers), communications, presentations, publications and other materials in whatever form (whether in hardcopy or electronic form and including, without limitation, email and other transitory forms) containing, referencing, embodying or otherwise utilising FRS Tool Outputs and/or data/information derived directly or indirectly from FRS Tool Outputs.

'Use' means to run the FRS Tool to generate FRS Tool Outputs;

'Website' means the website(s) hosted by Lloyd’s Register from which You access the FRS Tool.

'You' means the individual (being a natural person) acquiring rights under this FRS Tool Licence. For the avoidance of doubt, “You” shall not be an undertaking, firm, organisation, company, corporation, body corporate, university, college, government, state (or agency of state), or any association, partnership or unincorporated body of two or more of the foregoing, or any entity other than a natural person. References to “Your” (or similar expression) shall be construed accordingly.

INTERPRETATION

In this FRS Tool Licence, unless the context requires otherwise:

  1. words importing the singular shall include the plural and vice versa, and words importing the whole shall be deemed to include a reference to any part thereof; and
  2. any words following the terms including, include, includes, for example, such as or any similar expression shall be construed as illustrative only and shall not limit the sense of the words, description, definition, phrase or term preceding those terms.

 
Lloyd's Register, LR and any variants are trading names of Lloyd's Register Group Limited, its subsidiaries and affiliates.
Lloyd's Register Group Services Limited (Reg. no. 6193893) is a limited company registered in England and Wales.
Registered office: 71 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 4BS, UK. A member of the Lloyd's Register group.
© 2019 Lloyd's Register Group Services Limited.
 

Tankers:

MR Tanker
50,000 MT DWT
Aframax
110,000 MT DWT
Suezmax
155,000 MT DWT
VLCC
300,000 MT DWT

Bulk Carriers:

Handymax
45,000 MT DWT
Supramax
55,000 MT DWT
Kamsarmax
82,500 MT DWT
Capesize
180,000 MT DWT
VLOC
400,000 MT DWT

Ro-Ro:

<1k lane meters
5,000 MT DWT
1-3k lane meters
10,000 MT DWT
>3k lane meters
25,000 MT DWT

Passenger/Cruise:

<10k GT
8,000 GT
10-60k GT
57,500 GT
60-100k GT
72,000 GT
>100k GT
160,000 GT