Ship Design, Construction of Vessels, and Shipbuilding Technology
DOI.org/10.5281/zenodo.1205748
Kupaltseva E., Ronnov E.
EVGENIIA KUPALTSEVA, Postgraduate, e-mail: Evgenia_Kupaltseva@rambler.ru
EVGENIIY RONNOV, Doctor of Engineering Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Design and Shipbuilding Technology, e-mail: ptps@vgavt-nn.ru
Volga State University of Water Transport
5 Nesterova St., Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia, 603950
Rationale for the design characteristics of small passenger vessels with electric propulsion plant
Abstract: The global trend towards the ecologic attractiveness of transport and the reduction of fossil-fuel consumption has conditioned ever stricter requirements on the decrease of polluting emissions. The trend has given impetus to the development of electric propulsion systems including the shipbuilding industry. The number of vessels with electric propulsion plant is increasing year by year. Unlike land transport, the share of recovery energy in the course of operation of a vessel is actually very small, hence the task to determine the sphere of the economically advantageous use of the systems in the fleet. At present, there are no methods to assess the economic effect of the use of the ships with non-traditional ship power plant (SPP) at different operational parameters. To assess the economic efficiency of the vessels with atypical SPP the authors have selected “small” passenger vessels operating in the urban and suburban lines. Such vessels operate on relatively short routes and in the course of operation their modes change frequently. These features are decisive for the use of the atypical SPP. Working out a procedure, the authors have developed a software product in the Visual Basic for Application (VBA) environment. The functional capacities of the system enable one having certain baseline data to calculate criteria for a vessel both with the classic EMS and the specified atypical complex. The corresponding comparison of the received data reveals the positive economic effect. The present article determines the spheres of the most advantageous use of "small" passenger fleet with propulsion motor supplied by electrochemical energy sources.
Key words: passenger ship, electric propulsion, mathematical model, economic efficiency.
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