The Challenge
For the maritime industry worldwide, energy sustainability has become an important topic not only to meet increasingly strict environmental regulations but especially as a means of improving profitability. Against this background the Client has awarded HPC to develop a structured, model-based approach that can be used by ports and terminals to identify suitable measures to increase their energy sustainability and thus improve their environmental compatibility and profitability. As a result, the project paves the way for prosperous logistics service provision,which is in line with community and environmental requirements. A central project result is a simulation and lifecycle assessment model to configure the logistics and energy consumption of a port or terminal.
Tasks Performed
- Develop a structured procedure that can be applied by ports and terminals to improve their level of energy sustainability
- Prepare a generic energy sustainability measures catalogue for ports and terminals
- Conception of a simulation tool for modelling the energy consumption of a port / terminal
- Develop a model for assessing the environmental impact of energy sustainability measures
- Set up models for the economic assessment of energy sustainability measures
- Verify the developed procedure and models by comprehensive field studies
- Examine the transfer potential of the procedure in related fields of application
Benefit to Client
- Well-structured approach to identify measures for energy efficiency improvement and to increase the use of renewable energy
- Provision of simulation-based load profile analysis
- Cost-effective but realistic assessment of energy sustainability measures and economic analyses
