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http://dx.doi.org/10.7315/CADCAM.2012.071

A Method for Determining a Ship Economic Route based on the Acquisition of the Sea State and Estimation of Fuel Consumption  

Roh, Myung-Il (School of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, University of Ulsan)
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Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering / v.17, no.2, 2012 , pp. 71-78 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, the ratio of fuel cost to the operational cost of a ship is increasing according to the increase of the international oil price. Thus, many studies are being made to reduce the cost; for example, a method for acquiring the sea state information, a method for estimating fuel consumption, a method for determining the ship's optimal route, and so on. However, these studies were not incorporated together and being independently made in different fields. In this study, by improving and incorporating such studies, a method for determining a ship economic route based on the acquisition of the sea state and estimation of fuel consumption was proposed. To evaluate the applicability of the proposed method, it was applied to an optimal routing problem of the ocean area including many islands. The result shows that the proposed method can yield the economic route minimizing fuel consumption.
Keywords
Fuel consumption; Optimization; Sea state; Ship economic route;
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