LNG to Power in the Romanian port of Constanta

Vasile Rata,Alin Hobjila,Liliana Rusu,E Rusu

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/201910301007

Abstract

Nowadays, the raising of the global living standard are changing the lifestyle of each individual, which also leads to increased consumption of goods and services. The factors mentioned, directly affect shipping and cruising activities. These two types of activities are classified as major pollutant makers within ports, near urban residences, caused by the combustion of fuel in large auxiliary engines to provide the power needed to operate the systems specific to the two types of ships. In this context, our objective is to find solutions such as the one presented in this study. They have emerged as a scenario for the sizing of an onshore or a floating power plant using Liquefied Gas Natural (LNG) for the port of Constanta in Romania, which is considered to be the largest port of the European Union in the Black Sea.

Highlights

Pollution, in our days, is one of the main problems in the world and is the reason for damaging sea life and air, which affects human health indirect ly
A rough analysis asserts that a ship docks during a year about 100 days in port and that in average it burns 5 cubic meters of marine fuel to carry out daily harbour activities, resulting in between 1 and 4 MW used for a container ship port and between 5 and 10 MW for a cruise ship
It turns out that an approach is needed regarding the evolution of port facility requirements for a period of 10 to 50 years, in relation to new environ mental protection requirements, by reducing emissions of greenhouse gases and gases produced in a majo r percentage of freight, cruise ships and more

Summary

Introduction

In our days, is one of the main problems in the world and is the reason for damaging sea life and air, which affects human health indirect ly. It is well known that human activit ies are having an important role in the changes in atmospheric co mposition that affect global climate changes [1]. In these conditions, the European Union (EU) has an act ive ro le in cutting its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the target is 20% cut until 2020 compared with 1990 [2]. In the last International Maritime Organizat ion (IMO) report is mentioned that annually the marit ime transport is responsible for around 2.5% of g lobal GHG emissions [4], and the trend is to increase fro m 50% to 250% by 2050 This increase will be directly related to the future economic developments

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