Energy efficientship operation through speed optimisation in various weather conditions
Event Type
Event
Location
Room 235
Start Date
25-1-2017 3:45 PM
End Date
25-1-2017 4:00 PM
Description
Speed optimisation or speed management has been an attractive topic in shipping industry for a long time. Traditional methods just rely on master’s experience. Even some recent methods only simply make a speed up or reduction with a certain speed steps to see the benefits, which cannot get optimum speed profile. This paper introduces a relatively advanced method for speed global optimisation towards energy efficient shipping in various weather conditions and shows the effect when the method is employed. With this method, if a ship type, departure and destination ports and fixed ETA (Estimated Time Arrival) are given, the stakeholders can be provided a more reasonable speed operation plan for a certain commercial route, which leads to lower fuel consumption. Weather conditions and hence routing plays a very important role in this process. Several case studies over quite different routes and different voyage season are followed to validate the method.
Energy efficientship operation through speed optimisation in various weather conditions
Room 235
Speed optimisation or speed management has been an attractive topic in shipping industry for a long time. Traditional methods just rely on master’s experience. Even some recent methods only simply make a speed up or reduction with a certain speed steps to see the benefits, which cannot get optimum speed profile. This paper introduces a relatively advanced method for speed global optimisation towards energy efficient shipping in various weather conditions and shows the effect when the method is employed. With this method, if a ship type, departure and destination ports and fixed ETA (Estimated Time Arrival) are given, the stakeholders can be provided a more reasonable speed operation plan for a certain commercial route, which leads to lower fuel consumption. Weather conditions and hence routing plays a very important role in this process. Several case studies over quite different routes and different voyage season are followed to validate the method.