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Can solar photovoltaic systems be used in ship power systems?
For the large-scale ocean-going ship platform, the critical issue of applying solar photovoltaic (PV) system is integrating PV equipment into the ship power system (SPS) without changing its original structure.
Can a ship based PV system be installed on a cruise ship?
Kyoung et al. 2013 introduced the only application case of a grid-connected ship-based PV system, which is a 3.2 kW photovoltaic-diesel hybrid power system installed on a conventional cruise ship (South Korea, 2011).
Since the standalone inverter and grid-connected inverter can be put into utilisation by the auto transfer switch at the same time, this PV system is defined as a hybrid PV system. However, there is not any application research on the hybrid PV for any kinds of marine ship worldwide.
Can a ship run on solar energy?
Theoretically, solar energy, wind energy, fuel cells and wave energy can all be combined within a ship power system, meaning ships can run on solar energy, wind energy, fuel cells and wave energy or a combination. However, it needs to decide which new energy source is the most suitable to be used in ships due to their various applications.
Can grid-connected PV generation systems be integrated with a ship's electrical propulsion system?
On this basis, increases in the installed capacity of PV generation systems in large-scale ships might enable grid-connected PV generation system to be integrated with a ship's electrical propulsion system, offering significant possibilities for ship design in the future.
Can energy management system of ship power station manage the output power?
Only based on this kind of system structure or topology design, can the energy management system (EMS) of ship power station reasonably schedule the output power of grid-connected type ship-based PV system, and realise the effective usage of PV power (Sun et al. 2013).