As a strategic fulcrum and an important hub for international trade and shipping, seaports consume an enormous amount of energy, making them a major source of carbon emissions. To achieve carbon neutrality, better energy management strategies and methods should be developed for the sustainable development of seaports. Seaports consist of various logistics subsystems and energy subsystems. Renewable energy such as wind and solar power, clean energy such as hydrogen, multiple energy storage, cold ironing, electric vehicles, electric cranes, and other electrification technologies and equipment are widely used in port areas. In this context, the couplings among different energy flow, between energy and logistics, and between energy and maritime transport become much closer and more complex. Therefore, it is necessary to explore methods and technologies for environmentally friendly seaport energy management and low-carbon operation related to the couplings between logistics and multi-energy systems.
Low-carbon and efficient operation of green seaports depends on logistics-energy coordination, multi-energy conversion, and utilization of production resources. Numerous uncertainties in logistics-energy systems also have a complex impact on energy consumption and emissions. The topic aims to investigate: i) the interaction mechanism between energy and logistics; ii) the model formulations of energy consumption and carbon emissions for ships, multi-energy sources, and logistics production; iii) the complementarity potentials between subsystems at temporal-spatial scales; iv) and the collaborative optimization and control of energy-logistics systems at multiple time scales. In addition, economic operations, energy transactions and pricing, multi-agent games, and low-carbon policies are also of interest to this topic.
The scope of this research topic includes but is not limited to the following themes:
- Coupling mechanism and modeling of the energy subsystem and the logistics subsystem.
- Energy dispatching and management for integrated energy systems for green ports
- Application of cold ironing, hydrogen, and other low-carbon technologies in ports
- New solutions for the distributed energy storage in ports
- Energy optimization for port infrastructures
- Multi-agent game and pricing for port energies
- Low-carbon and economic operation of port energy systems
- Optimization and state estimation under multiple uncertainties of logistics and energy subsystems
- Optimal planning of integrated energy systems in ports
- Other solutions for low-carbon operation of integrated energy systems in ports
As a strategic fulcrum and an important hub for international trade and shipping, seaports consume an enormous amount of energy, making them a major source of carbon emissions. To achieve carbon neutrality, better energy management strategies and methods should be developed for the sustainable development of seaports. Seaports consist of various logistics subsystems and energy subsystems. Renewable energy such as wind and solar power, clean energy such as hydrogen, multiple energy storage, cold ironing, electric vehicles, electric cranes, and other electrification technologies and equipment are widely used in port areas. In this context, the couplings among different energy flow, between energy and logistics, and between energy and maritime transport become much closer and more complex. Therefore, it is necessary to explore methods and technologies for environmentally friendly seaport energy management and low-carbon operation related to the couplings between logistics and multi-energy systems.
Low-carbon and efficient operation of green seaports depends on logistics-energy coordination, multi-energy conversion, and utilization of production resources. Numerous uncertainties in logistics-energy systems also have a complex impact on energy consumption and emissions. The topic aims to investigate: i) the interaction mechanism between energy and logistics; ii) the model formulations of energy consumption and carbon emissions for ships, multi-energy sources, and logistics production; iii) the complementarity potentials between subsystems at temporal-spatial scales; iv) and the collaborative optimization and control of energy-logistics systems at multiple time scales. In addition, economic operations, energy transactions and pricing, multi-agent games, and low-carbon policies are also of interest to this topic.
The scope of this research topic includes but is not limited to the following themes:
- Coupling mechanism and modeling of the energy subsystem and the logistics subsystem.
- Energy dispatching and management for integrated energy systems for green ports
- Application of cold ironing, hydrogen, and other low-carbon technologies in ports
- New solutions for the distributed energy storage in ports
- Energy optimization for port infrastructures
- Multi-agent game and pricing for port energies
- Low-carbon and economic operation of port energy systems
- Optimization and state estimation under multiple uncertainties of logistics and energy subsystems
- Optimal planning of integrated energy systems in ports
- Other solutions for low-carbon operation of integrated energy systems in ports