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Interview Project Coordinator SEABAT with Horizon Magazine

The SEABAT project coordinator Jeroen Stuyts was interviewed for Horizon Magazine by Michael Allen. Horizon is the research and innovation magazine of the European Union. In this interview Stuyts speaks…

Battery Hybrid Energy Storage Systems for Full-Electric Marine Applications

Published: November 2022 Authors: Mohsen Akbarzadeh – Jasper De Smet – Jeroen Stuyts Abstract: The high cost of Lithium-ion battery systems is one of the biggest challenges hindering the wide…

Get to know Amaia Lopez de Heredia Bermeio from IKERLAN

December 2022 Amaia is a senior researcher in the Power electronics area in IKERLAN, a Technological Research Centre, member of Basque Research & Technology Alliance (BRTA), in Spain. She is…

SEABAT at TRA Conference

The TRA Conference was held in Lisbon from the 14th until the 17th of November. This is the largest European Research and Technology Conference dedicated to transport and mobility. There…

Results WP4 – Design and development of the components for a modular and flexible hybrid-battery system towards low cost

Once the Hybrid Energy Storage System (HESS) three-level architecture (module-string-system) and preliminary design were defined in the SEABAT project, we started the design and development of electrical, mechanical and thermal…

Results WP3 – Modular and Flexible Battery System Design

The two main objectives of work package 3 within Seabat are: 1) the development of a modular and scalable hybrid battery system architecture for waterborne transport allowing storage capacities of…

SEABAT GA News Update

The 4th General Assembly of SEABAT took place on the 12th and 13th of September 2022 at the DAMEN shipyard in Gorinchem. Upon arrival, the consortium was welcomed with an…

12 September 2022 FLORES Workshop on digital twins for flow batteries

Roadmap toward redox flow battery passport The European Battery Regulation foresees monitoring of batteries on their global warming potential and utilization of critical raw materials. FLORES, a network of 13…

SEABAT – ACADEMIC WORKSHOP

Electrification is a key technology to reduce maritime emissions and increase efficiency. However, maritime electric propulsion is not yet mature. For instance, maritime batteries are considerably more expensive than automotive…

SEABAT’s 2nd Newsletter

Be updated on the progress made in the last 6 months of our project. An important phase as we have selected the right topology for our proposed hybrid battery! Read…

TRA conference 2022

14-17 November 2022 Lisbon The Transport Research Arena (TRA) Conference is the largest event entirely dedicated to European Research and Technology Conference on transport and mobility. Under the motto “Moving…

5 March 2022: SEABAT on national (Dutch) television!

  On Saturday 5th March 2022 at 17:30 hrs.  RTLZ had an item on Flanders Make, in which the importance of electrification of the marine sector is explained with the…

SEABAT’s first newsletter is out!

Meet the SEABAT project in this first issue. Our coordinator will lead you through the first year. More about the specifications and requirements and background information. We hope you enjoy…

SEABAT at WATTS up Event

On 8 and 9 March 2022 the Maritime Battery Forum organises the WATTS UP event 2022, which will take place in Stavanger, Norway. Two days will be filled with presentations,…

Specifications and requirements

The main objective of the SEABAT project is to develop full-electric Hybrid Energy Storage Systems (HESS) for large marine applications. The so called HESS would be a modular combination of…