Seshadri (Sesh) Gopalakrishnan, Sustainability Leader at Bureau Veritas M&O, is a seasoned marine & offshore industry professional, with rich experience across consulting & advisory, innovation & new product development, engineering, and technical integrity assurance. He has worked with leading M&O organizations with proud legacies over a career of nearly two decades.
Seshadri has a Master's degree in Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, and post graduate certifications in Energy Value Chain risks and Sustainability & Climate Risk from Global Association of Risk Professionals, and Data Science & Business Analytics from McCombs School of Business, UT Austin.
Over the last decade, Seshadri's focus has been in enabling a just transition towards a sustainable & low-carbon economy. Seshadri serves in subcommittees and technical committees of national and international Standards development initiatives, is a frequent speaker on themes of decarbonization & sustainability, volunteers towards biodiversity conservation, and firmly believes in the synergy of strong ecosystem wide partnerships to advance global causes such as climate action.
Sustainability Leader,
Bureau Veritas
Seshadri
Gopalakrishnan
SEECAT: Model based validation & due diligence for electric & hybrid vessels
Friday 25th September
9:40 – 10:05
Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore is the leader in Classification of full electric coastal vessels and harbor crafts in the APAC region. The first fully electric, battery powered ferry in Singapore - Electric Dream - was classed by Bureau Veritas. Bureau veritas has gone on to class subsequent battery powered electric vessels in Singapore, including hard-to-electrify vessel segments such as Tugs (PaxOcean's EOn). BV is committed towards innovation and has provided and continues to provide type approvals of new battery chemistries in marine & offshore applications.
Alongside classification, Bureau Veritas leverages its technical expertise in providing consulting & advisory towards performance and operations excellence of battery operated vessels - primarily through a model-based approach. SEECAT, BV's proprietary modelling & simulation tool built with Dymola as the engine, contains a comprehensive model library representing diverse marine equipment, machinery, and systems.
Typically, BV would undertake integrated modelling of disparate equipment and systems to best represent the vessel as a whole (a digital twin, for most purposes), and simulate its performance under a credible set of scenarios - a permutation & combination of random variables such as sea-states, metocean conditions, operating profiles, interface variables with extraneous systems, etc. The end-goal is optimization, and the object could be total cost of ownership of the battery powered vessel, revenue maximization, or enhanced reliability. SEECAT could be applied at the pre-FEED or FEED stages for technical due diligence before committing to electrification of hard-to-electrify vessel segments.