International Journal of Applied Power Engineering (IJAPE)
Vol 11, No 1: March 2022

A low-cost business-oriented seaport energy effective management platform

Asimina Dimara (Information Technologies Institute (ITI))
Dimitrios Triantafyllidis (Information Technologies Institute (ITI))
Stelios Krinidis (Information Technologies Institute (ITI))
Nikolaos Ntaras (Centre for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving (CRES))
Olga Koutsogianni (Centre for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving (CRES))
George Tsoukos (TREDIT S.A, Transport and ICT Consultants)
Athanasios Giannopoulos (TREDIT S.A, Transport & ICT Consultants)
Konstantinos Kitsikoudis (Information Technologies Institute (ITI))
Dimosthenis Ioannidis (Information Technologies Institute (ITI))
Maria Zarkadoula (Centre for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving (CRES))
Apostolos Bizakis (TREDIT S.A, Transport and ICT Consultants)
Stavros Antypas (Patras Port Authority S. A.)
Goumas Georgios (Centre for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving (CRES))
Dimitrios Tzovaras (Information Technologies Institute (ITI))



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Mar 2022

Abstract

Many seaports worldwide attempt to gain energy efficiency towards reducing their energy costs while mitigating climate change and environmental effects. In this pa- per, a low-cost business-oriented seaport energy effective management (PERFFECT) platform is introduced. PERFFECT intends to gain knowledge on fundamental port operational and business processes and evaluate them against energy efficiency and environmental footprint. Exploiting all the proposed PERFFECT applications like monitoring, evaluation, forecasting, and optimization, the energy efficiency of the op- erational infrastructure of the port’s is achieved. Port’s energy balance is estimated and used to decide the ports optimal energy usage. Moreover, the traffic volume produced by the gate check is simulated and utilized for further actions. These actions include energy savings and emission reduction recommendations. Finally, the proposed platform is evaluated against real-life data, while the experimental results present the out- come and efficiency of the system. The suggested system results in up to 82.82% light energy savings after a specific suggested action and up to 33% reduction of vehicle emissions, respectively.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJAPE

Publisher

Subject

Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Description

International Journal of Applied Power Engineering (IJAPE) focuses on the applied works in the areas of power generation, transmission and distribution, sustainable energy, applications of power control in large power systems, etc. The main objective of IJAPE is to bring out the latest practices in ...