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Optimal Scheduling of an Electric Propulsion Tugboat Considering Various Operating Conditions and Navigation Uncertainties

Jingjie Gao    
Hai Lan    
Peng Cheng    
Ying-Yi Hong and He Yin    

Resumen

The operating conditions of all-electric tugboats are flexible and changeable. They are more complicated than conventional vessels in terms of joint voyages and power generation scheduling. To guarantee the reliable operation of the ship, a new coordinated optimization scheme that combines economy and operational reliability is proposed. It is based on the various operating conditions of the tugboat during its voyage, taking into account the random outages of equipment and load fluctuations due to speed and wave uncertainties. Due to the difficulty of implementing a stochastic sampling method with space-time coupling constraints (e.g., the voyage is related to propulsion load), an analytical approach is needed to transform the model into a readily solvable mixed-integer linear program (MINP) which attributes risk scenarios to load fluctuations under various conditional probabilities. In addition, this paper proposes an improved piecewise linearization method based on a differential evolutionary algorithm to speed up the solution process and improve computational accuracy. Meanwhile, the energy storage loss cost due to battery degradation is added to the optimization target. The battery?s cycle life is extended by rational scheduling of charging and discharging. Simulations validate this paper?s joint scheduling optimization scheme in multiple comparison experiments. The results show that it can effectively balance the economic and reliability levels under various risk scenarios and improve the environmental energy efficiency indicators.

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