Development of Green Ports with the Consideration of Coastal Wave Energy

Li, Li; Zhu, Jiasong; Ye, Guanqiong; Feng, Xuehao

doi:10.3390/su10114270

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“…Some ports consider it as an alternative fuel for operation equipment [9]. As renewable energy can improve energy efficiency and achieve emission reduction, some scholars have analyzed a series of application scenarios for renewable energy, such as wind energy [12], solar energy [13], wave energy [14], and hydrogen energy [15]. However, some types of renewable energy (such as wind and solar energy) have uncertainties in the energy supply.…”

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Towards Optimized ARMGs’ Low-Carbon Transition Investment Decision Based on Real Options

Yang

Meng

et al. 2022

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As a critical node of the global transportation network, ports have great potential in promoting transportation emission reduction. Promoting the low-carbon transition of ports by using clean energy is effective. Using hydrogen energy in automated container terminals (ACTs) has become popular in port emission-reduction research. The research object is the main port equipment—the automated rail-mounted container gantry crane (ARMG). This research designs a staged investment decision-making scheme for ARMGs’ hydrogen energy transition. The Internet of Things (IoT) architecture in ACTs collects ARMG equipment operation and carbon emission data. It provides a basis for data acquisition in ARMGs’ hydrogen energy transition. Furthermore, ports can adopt big data technology to analyze the correlation between equipment operation and carbon emissions. Finally, the digital twin platform will visualize the ARMG equipment operation and carbon emission behavior to remote operators. These advanced technologies can achieve status monitoring and simulation prediction, which will support ARMGs’ hydrogen energy transition. However, the ARMGs’ hydrogen energy transition has a long cycle, large investment, and strong variability. Ports should make staged investment decisions based on the digital twin platform’s status monitoring and simulation prediction analysis results. Therefore, this research establishes an optimization model for ARMGs’ low-carbon transition investment decision based on the real options method, and analyzes the staged investment scale and timing of ARMGs’ hydrogen energy transition. The results provide a popularized decision-making scheme for the low-carbon transition of ports’ equipment, which could facilitate the low-carbon transition of ports’ equipment.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Optimized ARMGs’ Low-Carbon Transition Investment Decision Based on Real Options

Yang

Meng

et al. 2022

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“…Li et al [47] analyzed the decisions of ports and power plants on investment in singleengine energy converters, considering the uncertain supply. Studies by Yu et al [48] in this area are also of interest.…”

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How to Measure Environmental Performance in Ports

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Oceans, seas, and marine resources are highly relevant for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Such relevance has given rise to the blue economy approach, where scholars and policymakers see activities carried out in cargo ports from a different perspective. The blue economy approach stresses the emergence of multiple transnational networks in relation to these topics and the development of green ports plus environmental measurements at seaports in general. In this context, our study aimed to review the various scientifically documented methods for measuring environmental performance in ports, ports companies, or port authorities in the maritime transport and inland waterways framework. The study followed a scientometric meta-analytic methodology to accomplish its goals. The study strictly referred to the Environmental Performance in Ports (EPP) and extracted the corpus to analyze data held in five databases embedded in the Web of Science Core Collection. Then, the selection was processed and refined with the PRISMA guidelines to establish the eligibility criteria for articles with the PICOS (Population, Interventions, Comparators, Outcomes, and Study) tool. A limited study set was identified. This included port environmental performance indicators and studies that were strongly influenced by the European Sea Ports Organization and Green Marine networks. These were compared based on the ecological Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), scale structure, and diversity in application. Finally, we assessed two measurement forms documented in the scientific research on the subject at a global level and discussed their pros and cons.

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“…There is a notion that wave energy exploitation in ports and islands could be remarkably beneficial [56,90]. In the case of the ports, a large sector of the academic and business communities agree on wave energy suitability for sustainability improvement in ports [91]. This notion is mainly due to the processes to construct, install and maintain WECs in the less complicated breakwaters, with lower costs in opposition to the respective offshore WECs [90,92].…”

Section: Advantageous Aspects Of Wave Energy Exploitation In the Medi...mentioning

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“…Hence, up to date, innovative concepts have been designed in such a way that WECs can easily be integrated into the breakwaters of ports, providing both energy and safety [92]. Moreover, there is a growing body of literature that revealed the advances of these integrations [90][91][92] and focused on the assessment of WECs in the breakwaters of ports [73,82]. In the case of islands, energy safety is a vital issue, and renewable extraction has growing importance [93].…”

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“…In the Mediterranean, there are thousands of ports. The installation of WECs in ports, where wave energy potential is operational, seems to have a great prospect for increasing the contribution in their energy mix [91]. Several recent studies have been conducted in order to examine the prospects of WECs and estimate the exploitable wave power in the Mediterranean ports [74,75,86].…”

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Wave Energy in the Mediterranean Sea: Resource Assessment, Deployed WECs and Prospects

Dialyna

Tsoutsos

2021

Energies

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A detailed review of wave energy resource assessment and the state-of-the-art of deployed wave energy converters (WECs) in real environmental conditions in the Mediterranean Sea have been analysed in this study. The installed power of the several deployed WECs in the Mediterranean Sea varies between 3–2500 kW. Ten project cases of deployed WECs in the basin are presented, with their analysis of the essential features. Five different types of WEC have already been tested under real environmental conditions in Italy, Greece, Israel and Gibraltar, with Italy being the Mediterranean country with the most deployed WECs. The main questions of the relevant studies were the ongoing trends, the examination of WECs in combination with other renewable sources, the utilising of WECs for desalination, and the prospects of wave energy in the Mediterranean islands and ports. This paper is the first comprehensive study that overviews the recent significant developments in the wave energy sector in the Mediterranean countries. The research concludes that the advances of the wave energy sector in the Mediterranean Sea are significant. However, in order to commercialise WECs and wave energy exploitation to become profitable, more development is necessary.

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Development of Green Ports with the Consideration of Coastal Wave Energy

Cited by 11 publications

References 33 publications

Towards Optimized ARMGs’ Low-Carbon Transition Investment Decision Based on Real Options

Towards Optimized ARMGs’ Low-Carbon Transition Investment Decision Based on Real Options

How to Measure Environmental Performance in Ports

Wave Energy in the Mediterranean Sea: Resource Assessment, Deployed WECs and Prospects

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