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Optimization of fuel consumption rate for tugboat in relation to port operations

Operational cost is an essential element in evaluation of productivity of a port. An increase or decrease in operational cost will resembles the effectiveness of port operations. Tugboats are widely used in maritime ports for variety uses. The operation of tugboat consumes high expenses, especially...

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Main Authors: Abd. Kader, Ab. Saman, Rajendran, Gopala Krishnan
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: 2015
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TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/61284/
http://icmd2015.umrah.ac.id/
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spelling my.utm.612842017-03-31T06:27:40Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/61284/ Optimization of fuel consumption rate for tugboat in relation to port operations Abd. Kader, Ab. Saman Rajendran, Gopala Krishnan TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics Operational cost is an essential element in evaluation of productivity of a port. An increase or decrease in operational cost will resembles the effectiveness of port operations. Tugboats are widely used in maritime ports for variety uses. The operation of tugboat consumes high expenses, especially in terms of fuel. This issue had been trending in maritime field as port authorities are facing this problem at critical level. In Malaysia, this problem had been identified almost in all the ports. Thus, this study was conducted to identify the key factors that contribute to the high consumption rate of a tugboat in operation. The data used to establish the benchmark values has been collected from Penang Port. The collected set of data was analyzed using EXCEL, statistical software as an analyzing tool and respective graphs and charts were plotted to assist the data analysis. The graphs plotted were then used to study the relationship in between fuel consumption rate against selected parameters. Factors contributing to high consumption rate were identified and suggestion to cut down the tugboat's operational cost was proposed. Besides that, other practical measures on optimizing tugboat operation for better fuel consumption were also discussed. 2015 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Abd. Kader, Ab. Saman and Rajendran, Gopala Krishnan (2015) Optimization of fuel consumption rate for tugboat in relation to port operations. In: The 1st International Conference on Maritime Development, 4-6 Sept, 2015, Indonesia. http://icmd2015.umrah.ac.id/
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topic TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics
spellingShingle TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics
Abd. Kader, Ab. Saman
Rajendran, Gopala Krishnan
Optimization of fuel consumption rate for tugboat in relation to port operations
description Operational cost is an essential element in evaluation of productivity of a port. An increase or decrease in operational cost will resembles the effectiveness of port operations. Tugboats are widely used in maritime ports for variety uses. The operation of tugboat consumes high expenses, especially in terms of fuel. This issue had been trending in maritime field as port authorities are facing this problem at critical level. In Malaysia, this problem had been identified almost in all the ports. Thus, this study was conducted to identify the key factors that contribute to the high consumption rate of a tugboat in operation. The data used to establish the benchmark values has been collected from Penang Port. The collected set of data was analyzed using EXCEL, statistical software as an analyzing tool and respective graphs and charts were plotted to assist the data analysis. The graphs plotted were then used to study the relationship in between fuel consumption rate against selected parameters. Factors contributing to high consumption rate were identified and suggestion to cut down the tugboat's operational cost was proposed. Besides that, other practical measures on optimizing tugboat operation for better fuel consumption were also discussed.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Abd. Kader, Ab. Saman
Rajendran, Gopala Krishnan
author_facet Abd. Kader, Ab. Saman
Rajendran, Gopala Krishnan
author_sort Abd. Kader, Ab. Saman
title Optimization of fuel consumption rate for tugboat in relation to port operations
title_short Optimization of fuel consumption rate for tugboat in relation to port operations
title_full Optimization of fuel consumption rate for tugboat in relation to port operations
title_fullStr Optimization of fuel consumption rate for tugboat in relation to port operations
title_full_unstemmed Optimization of fuel consumption rate for tugboat in relation to port operations
title_sort optimization of fuel consumption rate for tugboat in relation to port operations
publishDate 2015
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/61284/
http://icmd2015.umrah.ac.id/
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