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A Procedure for Predicting and Controlling the Ship Fuel Consumption: Its Implementation and Test
Author(s) -
Erto Pasquale,
Lepore Antonio,
Palumbo Biagio,
Vitiello Luigi
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
quality and reliability engineering international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.913
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1099-1638
pISSN - 0748-8017
DOI - 10.1002/qre.1864
Subject(s) - fuel efficiency , consumption (sociology) , energy consumption , exploit , power consumption , european union , order (exchange) , environmental economics , operations research , test (biology) , computer science , automotive engineering , engineering , business , power (physics) , computer security , economics , finance , social science , physics , electrical engineering , quantum mechanics , sociology , biology , economic policy , paleontology
In light of the International Maritime Organization guidelines, the new Regulation of the European Union urges shipping companies to set up a system for monitoring, reporting and verification of CO 2 emissions based on ship fuel consumption. However, in nowadays market, there is a lack of techniques for fuel consumption monitoring that can be adopted in a real environment. The proposed procedure overcomes the use of Speed–Power curves, which are commonly utilized in the Naval Architecture, by means of a multiple linear regression model that exploits the navigation information usually available in modern ships. This procedure can be used both to alert technical management of a shipping company for anomalous fuel consumption and to quantify the fuel consumption reduction connected with any specific policy adopted to improve energy efficiency. Therefore, this can be particularly profitable for shipping companies and operators in order to claim for carbon credits . The proposed approach is currently implemented by the Energy Saving Technical Department of the Grimaldi Group on a Ro‐Ro Pax ship. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.