LAPSE:2023.13869
Published Article
LAPSE:2023.13869
Feature Selection in Energy Consumption of Solar Catamaran INER 1 on Galapagos Island
Marcelo Moya, Javier Martínez-Gómez, Esteban Urresta, Martín Cordovez-Dammer
March 1, 2023
Maritime passenger transport in the Galapagos Islands−Itabaca Channel is based on boats with combustion engines that consume an annual average of 4200 gallons of fuel and produce about 38 tons of CO2 per year. The operation of the solar catamaran “INER 1” electric propulsion (PV) is a renewable and sustainable model for passenger shipping in the Galapagos Islands. In this regard, the detailed study of the relationship between the variability of solar radiation, the abrupt change of tides due to changes in wind speed and direction, and the increase in tourists, according to dry and wet seasons, cause high energy consumption. The boats must absorb energy from the electrical grid of the islands; this energy is from renewable (solar and wind) and, mostly, of fossil origin so identifying the source of the energy absorbed by the boats is essential. The aim of this study was to select the most influential attributes in the operation of the solar catamaran “INER 1” in the Galapagos Islands. The methodology for knowledge discovery in the databases was determined by selecting attributes that combine environmental, social, and energy variables affecting the energy performance of the solar catamaran. The energy consumption of the boats features a direct relationship with the attributes defined in this research as: (1) Energ (energy used), (2) Tur (tourists and residents), (3) Fotov (PV park), (4) Glrad (global radiation), (5) date (date and time), (6) Term9 (thermo-electric 9). Considering the six best attributes filtered by the proposed algorithms, 4.95% in the mean squared error parameter and a 98.94% accuracy in the classification and prediction of the energy consumed by boats were obtained.
Keywords
algorithm, Artificial Intelligence, biodiversity, Galapagos Islands, Solar Photovoltaic, sustainable shipping
Suggested Citation
Moya M, Martínez-Gómez J, Urresta E, Cordovez-Dammer M. Feature Selection in Energy Consumption of Solar Catamaran INER 1 on Galapagos Island. (2023). LAPSE:2023.13869
Author Affiliations
Moya M: Technology Transfer and Incubation Department, Instituto de Investigación Geológico y Energético (IIGE), Quito 170518, Ecuador [ORCID]
Martínez-Gómez J: Technology Transfer and Incubation Department, Instituto de Investigación Geológico y Energético (IIGE), Quito 170518, Ecuador; Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Aplicadas, Universidad Internacional SEK, Quito 170302, Ecuador; Department of Signal The [ORCID]
Urresta E: Technology Transfer and Incubation Department, Instituto de Investigación Geológico y Energético (IIGE), Quito 170518, Ecuador
Cordovez-Dammer M: Technology Transfer and Incubation Department, Instituto de Investigación Geológico y Energético (IIGE), Quito 170518, Ecuador
Journal Name
Energies
Volume
15
Issue
8
First Page
2761
Year
2022
Publication Date
2022-04-09
Published Version
ISSN
1996-1073
Version Comments
Original Submission
Other Meta
PII: en15082761, Publication Type: Journal Article
Record Map
Published Article

LAPSE:2023.13869
This Record
External Link

doi:10.3390/en15082761
Publisher Version
Download
Files
Mar 1, 2023
Main Article
License
CC BY 4.0
Meta
Record Statistics
Record Views
102
Version History
[v1] (Original Submission)
Mar 1, 2023
 
Verified by curator on
Mar 1, 2023
This Version Number
v1
Citations
Most Recent
This Version
URL Here
https://psecommunity.org/LAPSE:2023.13869
 
Original Submitter
Auto Uploader for LAPSE
Links to Related Works
Directly Related to This Work
Publisher Version