Ajoy Ramalingam
PTB Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Germany
Dr.-Ing. Ajoy Ramalingam is the Project Coordinator for the EU-funded project on Metrology for Green Maritime Shipping. At Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), the national metrology institute in Germany, he is also a research scientist focusing on metrology for dynamic processes and understanding ignition characteristics of sustainable fuels through fundamental reactors and novel diagnostic methods. In the working group at PTB, he is part of the coordinating team that drives project conceptualization and acquisition. He has a background in automotive engineering and has worked in a managerial role in engine product development at Ashok Leyland, a leading truck manufacturing company in India. Later, he moved to Germany to pursue his Master’s and Doctoral work in Mechanical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University.
Role of Metrology in Green Maritime Shipping
The maritime shipping sector is seeking to embrace alternative fuels such as green ammonia, hydrogen, synthetic fuels, and Power-to-X (PtX) solutions like methanol and biomethane to reduce their environmental impact. This transition demands the development of engine technologies to adapt to these new fuels and a growing need for accurate and traceable measurement systems to support these advancements and validate their performance. Accurate pressure, temperature, and emission concentration measurements are essential for research and development in this sector, and at the same time, benefit related sectors. The talk will show how the project consortium members plan to advance the methods and techniques to control and monitor engine emissions through traceable measurements of pressure, temperature, and emission compositions and apply them in real-world maritime applications. It will also show how the project will exploit the advances in machine learning approaches and modelling to optimise the power units and exhaust after-treatment systems.