Option of operating speed for vessels under low-carbon economy
Abstract: To find out ships'
optimum operating speed under low-carbon economy.
Approach: First, it analyzes the relations between ship’s carbon emission
and the operating speed, gets the optimum speed under which the entire fleet
emit minimum carbon, then establishes the relations between the ship owner’s
profit and the speed, extracts the speed under which the ship owner can gain
the maximum profit and founds out it’s different from the speed under which the
entire fleet emit minimum carbon.
Findings: The government must take effective measures to make the ship
owner slowdown and reduce emission.
Originality: It first works out a balance point between the decrease of
carbon emission brought by a lower operating speed and the increase of that
caused by more vessels putting into service in a mathematical method.
Author: Gang Li, Huan Xu, Wei
Liu
Journal Code: jptindustrigg130053
