(87a) Designing Green Corridors for Sustainable Maritime Transportation
AIChE Annual Meeting
2022
2022 Annual Meeting
Sustainable Engineering Forum
Design, Analysis, and Optimization of Sustainable Energy Systems and Supply Chains II
Monday, November 14, 2022 - 8:00am to 8:21am
In this work, we investigate the design of green corridors where, given shipping demands between different ports, one needs to determine the locations and capacities of fuel production plants, storage facilities, and bunkering ports such that all fuel demands can be satisfied. We consider both shore-to-ship and ship-to-ship bunkering, where the latter requires the use of bunker vessels. Also, production facilities can be constructed both on- and offshore [3], where candidate locations may differ significantly in the cost of fuel production from renewable resources at those locations. We model the problem by combining a discrete facility location and a set covering formulation, which results in a mixed-integer linear program. The optimization model is applied to two real-world case studies, which involve the Australia-Japan iron ore route and the Asia-Europe container route, to assess the potential benefit and cost of establishing global green corridors.
References:
[1] International Maritime Organization (2021). Fourth IMO GHG Study 2020.
[2] The Getting to Zero Coalition (2021). The Next Wave: Green Corridors.
[3] Wang, H., Daoutidis, P., & Zhang, Q. (2021). Harnessing the wind power of the ocean with green offshore ammonia. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 9, 14605-14617.