Green Energy Seaport Suggestion for Sustainable Development in Damietta Port, Egypt

Balbaa, Alsnosy; El-Amary, Noha H.

doi:10.2495/eco170071

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“…Teerawattana and Yang [12] presented several indicators for assessing port environmental performance by the entropy method. After evaluating biomass and photovoltaic renewable energy, Balbaa and El-Amary [13] constructed a sustainable port model for the Damietta seaport.…”

Section: Literature Review 21 Port's Sustainable Development Capabimentioning

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Environmental Regulations on the Spatial Spillover of the Sustainable Development Capability of Chinese Clustered Ports

Chen

et al. 2021

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For years, China has adopted environmental regulations in developing ports to improve their sustainability. Based on the data of Chinese ports from 2009 to 2018, this paper presents a data envelopment analysis model with subdividing input-output indicator weights and develops it further in two stages with the weight preference and the slacks-based measure, respectively. After assessing the sustainable development capability (SDC) of Chinese ports and their spatial correlation, it revealed that Chinese ports are clustered in several regions and their SDC has spilled over into their neighbors. Further study revealed the SDC is affected by environmental regulations in different ways: as a key measure among regulations to improve the SDC, voluntary regulation has a spatial spillover effect, but neither the mandatory regulation nor public media regulation can significantly improve the SDC. This suggests that the port authority should enact environmental regulations based on the port spatial difference and the port should expand its operation scale and market size and recruit more top talent, which is good for improving its productivity and reducing its carbon emissions.

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Section: Literature Review 21 Port's Sustainable Development Capabimentioning

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Environmental Regulations on the Spatial Spillover of the Sustainable Development Capability of Chinese Clustered Ports

Chen

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“…Manolis, et al [31] demonstrates the impact of a distributed demand response strategy using multi-agent systems for improving voltage in energy distribution networks for ports. Similarly, other authors [39] propose statistical methods for integrating solar farms and biomass energy to meet power demand in port sites. The impact of such integration identifies 50% of power demand optimization with the local power generation from renewable energy.…”

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Developing Smart Energy Communities around Fishery Ports: Toward Zero-Carbon Fishery Ports

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Air quality and energy consumption are among the top ten environmental priorities in seaports as stated by the European Sea Ports Organization. Globally, it is estimated that 15% of energy consumption can be attributed to refrigeration and air conditioning systems in fishing activities. There is a real need to understand energy usage in fishery ports to help identify areas of improvements, with a view to optimize energy usage and minimize carbon emissions. In this study, we elaborate on ways in which a simulation capability can be developed at the community level with a fishery port, using a real-world case study seaport in Milford Heaven (Wales, UK). This simulation-based strategy is used to investigate the potential of renewable energy, including local solar farms, to meet the local power demand. This has informed the development of a simulation-based optimization strategy meant to explore how smart energy communities can be formed at the port level by integrating the smart grid with the local community energy storage. The main contribution of the paper involves a co-simulation environment that leverages calibrated energy simulation models to deliver an optimization capability that (a) manages electrical storage within a district an environment, and (b) promotes the formation of energy communities in a fishery port ecosystem. This is paving the way to policy implications, not only in terms of carbon and energy reduction, but also in the formation and sustained management of energy communities.

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“…Substitutional clean energy sources, replacing the conventional fossil fuels electrical energy resources, should be renewable to uphold the objective of sustainable development. Photovoltaic (PV) and biomass energies are clean and renewable electrical energy generation resources [5][6][7][8][9].…”

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“…PV modules have the capability of expanding and transporting in certain situations. In general, minimal maintenance is required for well-designed and properly installed PV systems, and additionally, they will have long-service lifetimes [5,[7][8][9]12,13]. In 1952, the primal prototype is introduced [22].…”

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A Reconfigured Whale Optimization Technique (RWOT) for Renewable Electrical Energy Optimal Scheduling Impact on Sustainable Development Applied to Damietta Seaport, Egypt

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This paper studies the effect on the rate of growth of carbon dioxide emission in seaports' atmosphere of replacing a part of the fossil fuel electrical power generation by clean renewable electrical energies, through two different scheduling strategies. The increased rate of harmful greenhouse gas emissions due to conventional electrical power generation severely affects the whole global atmosphere. Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases emissions are responsible for a significant share of global warming. Developing countries participate in this environmental distortion to a great percentage. Two different suggested strategies for renewable electrical energy scheduling are discussed in this paper, to attain a sustainable green port by the utilization of two mutual sequential clean renewable energies, which are biomass and photovoltaic (PV) energy. The first strategy, which is called the eco-availability mode, is a simple method. It is based on operating the renewable electrical energy sources during the available time of operation, taking into consideration the simple and basic technical issues only, without considering the sophisticated technical and economical models. The available operation time is determined by the environmental condition. This strategy is addressed to result on the maximum available Biomass and PV energy generation based on the least environmental and technical conditions (panel efficiency, minimum average daily sunshine hours per month, minimum average solar insolation per month). The second strategy, which is called the Intelligent Scheduling (IS) mode, relies on an intelligent Reconfigured Whale Optimization Technique (RWOT) based-model. In this strategy, some additional technical and economical issues are considered. The studied renewable electrical energy generation system is considered in two scenarios, which are with and without storage units. The objective (cost) function of the scheduling optimization problem, for both scenarios, are developed. Also, the boundary conditions and problem constraints are concluded. The RWOT algorithm is an updated Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA). It is developed to accelerate the rate of reaching the optimal solution for the IS problem. The two strategies simulation and implementation are illustrated and applied to the seaport of Damietta, which is an Egyptian port, located 10 km to the west of the Nile River (Damietta Branch). The scheduling of PV and biomass energy generation during the different year months is examined for both strategies. The impact of renewable electrical energies generation scheduling on carbon dioxide emission and consequently global warming is discussed. The saving in carbon dioxide emission is calculated and the efficient results of the suggested models are clarified. The carbon dioxide emission is reduced to around its fifth value, during renewable energy operation. This work focuses on decreasing the rate of growth of carbon dioxide emission coming from fossil fuel electrical power generation in Egypt, targ...

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Green Energy Seaport Suggestion for Sustainable Development in Damietta Port, Egypt

Cited by 13 publications

References 5 publications

Environmental Regulations on the Spatial Spillover of the Sustainable Development Capability of Chinese Clustered Ports

Environmental Regulations on the Spatial Spillover of the Sustainable Development Capability of Chinese Clustered Ports

Developing Smart Energy Communities around Fishery Ports: Toward Zero-Carbon Fishery Ports

A Reconfigured Whale Optimization Technique (RWOT) for Renewable Electrical Energy Optimal Scheduling Impact on Sustainable Development Applied to Damietta Seaport, Egypt

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