Fuel oil consumption constitutes the largest portion of the ship operating costs. Regardless of noisy signals and scattered data, reliable[ds_preview] estimation of fuel consumption is important. With data based methods, fuel consumption of the ship power plant can be evaluated and modelled in the actual operating conditions. In this paper, robust estimates are derived that also take into consideration additional data available such as bunker delivery notes and fuel oil laboratory tests.
Authors: Sami Salonen, Aatos Heikkinen, Eniram Ltd., Helsinki/Finland
