Energy management system for hybrid ship: Status and perspectives

Review article, 2024

With the growing concerns over energy scarcity and environmental degradation, multi-energy hybrid propulsion systems are emerging as a vital innovation for the future of maritime transport. This paper collects related literature on intelligent hybrid power marine energy management systems from the Web of Science database and provides a comprehensive review of the design phase to operation. Based on this, future research directions are proposed for both the academic community and practitioners. Hybrid smart ships employ optimization models with objectives such as lowering operating costs, meeting emission standards, or improving performance, and the design of efficient algorithms is a hot research topic in the field of green shipping. Future research directions include adopting high-tech technologies, such as big data and artificial intelligence, to design hybrid control strategies, developing integrated control of multiple systems and multi-objective optimization models, and acquiring and predicting real-time navigation environments.