Batteries in offshore support vessels – Pollution, climate impact and economics
| Autor: | Gunnar S. Eskeland, Haakon Lindstad, Agathe Rialland |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Pollution
Battery (electricity) Engineering 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ComputingMethodologies_SIMULATIONANDMODELING media_common.quotation_subject 020209 energy Transportation 02 engineering and technology Combustion 01 natural sciences Automotive engineering Environmental Science(all) 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering NOx media_common 0105 earth and related environmental sciences General Environmental Science Civil and Structural Engineering Water transport Waste management business.industry Fossil fuel Greenhouse gas Environmental science Dynamic positioning business Subsea |
| Zdroj: | Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment |
| Popis: | This paper assesses the pros and the cons of installing batteries on offshore support vessels. These vessels are specially designed to provide services to oil and gas operations, such as anchor handling, supply and subsea operations. They have multiple engines and advanced dynamic positioning systems to ensure that they can perform their duties with high reliability at nearly any sea state. Combined with high safety requirements, this has resulted in general operational patterns with vessels running multiple combustion engines even at calm water conditions. For emissions, low engine loads yield high emissions of exhaust gases such as nitrogen oxides (NOx) and aerosols such as black carbon (BC), due to less favorable combustion conditions. The high span for these vessels between low loads and high, and their great need for potential power at short notice, motivate our examination of hybrid setups with electric: the vessel segment should be more favorable than many. We find that combining batteries with combustion engines reduces local pollution and climate impact, while the economics with current battery cost and fuel prices is good enough for new vessels, but not good enough for retrofits. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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