A Data-Driven Approach to Ship Energy Management: Incorporating Automated Tracking System Data and Weather Information
This research paper presents a data-based energy management method for a vessel that predicts the upcoming load demands based on data from weather information and its automated tracking system. The vessel is powered by a hybrid propulsion system consisting of a high-temperature fuel cell system to c...
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| author | Cem Ünlübayir Ulrich Hermann Mierendorff Martin Florian Börner Katharina Lilith Quade Alexander Blömeke Florian Ringbeck Dirk Uwe Sauer |
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| description | This research paper presents a data-based energy management method for a vessel that predicts the upcoming load demands based on data from weather information and its automated tracking system. The vessel is powered by a hybrid propulsion system consisting of a high-temperature fuel cell system to cover the base load and a battery system to compensate for the fuel cell’s limited dynamic response capability to load fluctuations. The developed energy management method predicts the load demand of the next time steps by analyzing physical relationships utilizing operational and positional data of a real vessel. This allows a steadier operation of the fuel cell and reduces stress factors leading to accelerated aging and increasing the resource efficiency of the propulsion system. Since large ships record tracking data of their cruise and no a priori training is required to adjust the energy management, the proposed method can be implemented with small additional computational effort. The functionality of the energy management method was verified using data from a real ship and records of the water currents in the North Sea. The accuracy of the load prediction is 2.7% and the attenuation of the fuel cell’s power output could be increased by approximately 32%. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-27301345685f406dbbbc12b5e2e7eef62023-12-22T14:18:44ZengMDPI AGJournal of Marine Science and Engineering2077-13122023-11-011112225910.3390/jmse11122259A Data-Driven Approach to Ship Energy Management: Incorporating Automated Tracking System Data and Weather InformationCem Ünlübayir0Ulrich Hermann Mierendorff1Martin Florian Börner2Katharina Lilith Quade3Alexander Blömeke4Florian Ringbeck5Dirk Uwe Sauer6Chair for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Systems, Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives (ISEA), RWTH Aachen University, 52074 Aachen, GermanyChair for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Systems, Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives (ISEA), RWTH Aachen University, 52074 Aachen, GermanyChair for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Systems, Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives (ISEA), RWTH Aachen University, 52074 Aachen, GermanyChair for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Systems, Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives (ISEA), RWTH Aachen University, 52074 Aachen, GermanyChair for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Systems, Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives (ISEA), RWTH Aachen University, 52074 Aachen, GermanyChair for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Systems, Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives (ISEA), RWTH Aachen University, 52074 Aachen, GermanyChair for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Systems, Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives (ISEA), RWTH Aachen University, 52074 Aachen, GermanyThis research paper presents a data-based energy management method for a vessel that predicts the upcoming load demands based on data from weather information and its automated tracking system. The vessel is powered by a hybrid propulsion system consisting of a high-temperature fuel cell system to cover the base load and a battery system to compensate for the fuel cell’s limited dynamic response capability to load fluctuations. The developed energy management method predicts the load demand of the next time steps by analyzing physical relationships utilizing operational and positional data of a real vessel. This allows a steadier operation of the fuel cell and reduces stress factors leading to accelerated aging and increasing the resource efficiency of the propulsion system. Since large ships record tracking data of their cruise and no a priori training is required to adjust the energy management, the proposed method can be implemented with small additional computational effort. The functionality of the energy management method was verified using data from a real ship and records of the water currents in the North Sea. The accuracy of the load prediction is 2.7% and the attenuation of the fuel cell’s power output could be increased by approximately 32%.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/11/12/2259energy managementload predictionhybrid marine propulsion systemSOFC-powered ships |
| spellingShingle | Cem Ünlübayir Ulrich Hermann Mierendorff Martin Florian Börner Katharina Lilith Quade Alexander Blömeke Florian Ringbeck Dirk Uwe Sauer A Data-Driven Approach to Ship Energy Management: Incorporating Automated Tracking System Data and Weather Information Journal of Marine Science and Engineering energy management load prediction hybrid marine propulsion system SOFC-powered ships |
| title | A Data-Driven Approach to Ship Energy Management: Incorporating Automated Tracking System Data and Weather Information |
| title_full | A Data-Driven Approach to Ship Energy Management: Incorporating Automated Tracking System Data and Weather Information |
| title_fullStr | A Data-Driven Approach to Ship Energy Management: Incorporating Automated Tracking System Data and Weather Information |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Data-Driven Approach to Ship Energy Management: Incorporating Automated Tracking System Data and Weather Information |
| title_short | A Data-Driven Approach to Ship Energy Management: Incorporating Automated Tracking System Data and Weather Information |
| title_sort | data driven approach to ship energy management incorporating automated tracking system data and weather information |
| topic | energy management load prediction hybrid marine propulsion system SOFC-powered ships |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/11/12/2259 |
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