Author(s)

Reza Karimpour¹, Maryam Karimpour²

¹Ocean-Going Ship Chief Engineer, Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL), Tehran, Iran.
²Electronic Engineer, Master of IT, Tehran Branch, Azad University, E-Campus, Tehran, Iran.

Given the strategic importance of energy and air pollution in the today world and due to the fact that the maritime transport system is one of the main sources of energy consumption and emissions in the environment, particularly contamination of water, so in recent years, fuel consumption and emissions reduction in the maritime transport industry has received considerable attention. Thus, in this paper, a new method is provided for typical boat hybridization, so by adding an electric motor and battery to boat power transmission system, dynamic performance will improve fuel consumption and emissions reduces. For this purpose, power transmission system elements are modelled and boat function is evaluated in real terms of movement by defining energy management strategy between power sources. The simulation results show that boat hybridization considerably reduces fuel consumption and emissions.

Electric Hybrid Boat, Energy Management, Fuel Consumption, Emissions

Karimpour, R. and Karimpour, M. (2016) Development of Hybrid Propulsion System for Energy Management and Emission Reduction in Maritime Transport System. Open Journal of Marine Science, 6, 482-497. doi: 10.4236/ojms.2016.64040.