This paper presents an examination of the primary applications of solar energy as the main
power source in the maritime sector, focusing on recent developments. A comprehensive …

The cost of renewable energy technologies such as wind and solar is falling significantly
over the decade and this can have a large influence on the efforts to reach sustainability …

Maritime transportation has a remarkable contribution to the increase of pollutant gases in
the atmosphere, and adapting alternative energy systems to ship's main power grid is an …

Thermal system efficiency improvement is critical in many technical applications such as
automobile cooling systems, power production, microelectronics, heat exchangers, and air …

Parabolic trough solar collectors (PTSCs) are commonly used in solar thermal
implementations to achieve high-temperatures. The current investigation looks at entropy …

For reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emission and saving energy, a hybrid photovoltaic
(PV) energy system comprised of grid-connect and off-grid modes was utilized on a dredger …

The increasingly stringent requirements—in terms of limiting pollutants and the constant
need to make maritime transport safer—generated the necessity to foresee different …

In this paper, an application for the management and supervision by predictive fault
diagnosis (PFD) of solar power generation systems is developed through a National Marine …

In order to obtain the optimal design of solar energy system, the data of solar radiation
should be provided. In this study, an estimation model of monthly solar radiation in Japan is …

This research investigates the application of photovoltaic (PV) systems on ship retrofits with
the aim of reducing the emission of harmful gases. By using renewable energy resources …