Multiobjective Coordinated Energy Dispatch and Voyage Scheduling for a Multienergy Ship Microgrid

Given the rapid development of the ship industry and increasing ship operating cost and gas emissions, this article studies the optimal operation of a multienergy ship (MES) microgrid to simultaneously reduce the ship operating cost and gas emissions. Apart from the conventional diesel generators, electric energy storage, and photovoltaic cells, the combined cooling heat and power (CCHP) unit is introduced for higher energy utilization efficiency. Besides, to flexiblize the CCHP operation and enhance the multienergy interaction, the thermal storage and power-to-thermal conversion unit are also included in the MES microgrid. Then, a multiobjective coordinated energy dispatch and voyage scheduling method are presented. After the constraints linearization, the coordination method is formulated as a mixed-integer linear programming problem, which is solved by the augmented epsilon-constraint method through Cplex solver. Finally, the proposed method is verified on a testing MES microgrid with necessary sensitivity analysis, and by comparing it with traditional benchmarks, its advantages are demonstrated. The simulation results indicate that the proposed method is effective for reducing the operating cost and emission, and it could provide references for the optimal operation of the emerging multienergy cruising ships.