The possibilities to improve ship's energy efficiency through the application of PV installation including cooled modules

Zbigniew Zapałowicz and Wojciech Zeńczak

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2021, vol. 143, issue C

Abstract: The sea environment protection requirements getting stricter with time have caused nowadays growing interest in the application of the renewable energy sources in the marine power systems. This allows to reduce the CO2 emission and therefore to achieve more advantageous value of ship's energy efficiency index. One of the more preferably applied arrangements, regardless of the ship's size, are the photovoltaic systems (PV systems). Their contribution to the electricity production on ships can be increased through the application of PV panels water cooling which results in the increase of their efficiency. This article presents the calculation methods allowing to determine the energy profits obtainable owing to the application of the PV modules cooling system using the water taken from the ship's power plant cooling system. The results of calculations for PV installation of a selected ro-pax vessel planned for the operation on the Świnoujście –Ystad line have been used and presented in this article.

Keywords: PV system; PV cooling; Ship power system; Ship's energy efficiency index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2021.110964

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