Hasan, S.M.R.; Karim, M.M. Proposed Inland Oil Tanker Design in Bangladesh Focusing CO2 Emission Reduction Based on Revised EEDI Parameters. J. Mar. Sci. Eng.2020, 8, 658.
Hasan, S.M.R.; Karim, M.M. Proposed Inland Oil Tanker Design in Bangladesh Focusing CO2 Emission Reduction Based on Revised EEDI Parameters. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2020, 8, 658.
Hasan, S.M.R.; Karim, M.M. Proposed Inland Oil Tanker Design in Bangladesh Focusing CO2 Emission Reduction Based on Revised EEDI Parameters. J. Mar. Sci. Eng.2020, 8, 658.
Hasan, S.M.R.; Karim, M.M. Proposed Inland Oil Tanker Design in Bangladesh Focusing CO2 Emission Reduction Based on Revised EEDI Parameters. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2020, 8, 658.
Abstract
Though inland ships share a small portion of the total global CO2 emission from shipping, from the individual country’s economic and environmental perspective, this is very important. In order to reduce CO2 emission from the sea going ships by increasing energy efficiency, International Maritime Organization (IMO) adopted a generalized Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) in 2011. However, due to the variation in the environmental, geographic and economic conditions, a generalized EEDI cannot be established in a similar fashion as established by IMO. Shallow and restricted water effects, different fuel qualities (to reduce operational cost), increase in engine power requirement, reduction in carrying capacity, cargo availability, etc. forbid the use of existing EEDI formulation for inland waterways. So, an EEDI formulation based on revised parameters has been proposed for the inland ships of Bangladesh. This paper focuses on the implementation of the revised EEDI formulation by performing a sensitivity analysis of different ship design parameters. Based on the analysis, suggestions were made on how to design inland oil tankers of Bangladesh using the revised EEDI formulation for reducing CO2 from the current level. Keeping the same speed and capacity, those vessels were redesigned based on those suggestions. The CFD analysis of those redesigned vessels using ‘Shipflow’ has shown a total resistance reduction of 10-13%.
Keywords
EEDI; EEDIINLAND; EEDIIMO; Inland Oil Tanker; CO2 emission; Energy Efficiency; MEPC
Subject
Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
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