Application of Photovoltaic Generating System to Electric Power in a Ship

Abstract

At present, Nox and SOx emission from the diesel engine in ships are regulated, because of destruction to the sea environment. The photovoltaic energy has a great future as clean energy instead of fossil fuel which has many environmental problems such as exhausted gas or pollution.
This paper presents the ability to apply the photovoltaic power system to electric power source in a ship. The new electric power system with the photovoltaic power system are designed in a harbor ship. A harbor ship is selected as an example of the small ship.
The NOx and SOx emission are estimated by the comparison between the present system and the new system with the photovoltaic power system.
It is shown that the photovoltaic power system can apply to electric power source in harbor ships by the results of this study.