@article{GENERAL,
      author = {Fox, TE and Minty, D and O'Keefe, SM and Taylor, JG},
      url = {http://library.imarest.org/record/7698},
      journal = {Conference Proceedings of INEC},
      title = {Naval Vessel Mission Fuel Expenditure Optimisation},
      abstract = {The requirement to maintain and uplift fuel in naval  vessels is a necessary operating constraint and,  with<br>
projections forecasting that fuel oil prices will  continue to rise, uplifts need to be scheduled to  deconflict with<br>
military tasking whilst being  financially efficient. This paper presents mission fuel  management as an optimisation<br>
problem, where analytical  techniques are used to explore the impact of intelligent  uplifts, intelligent leg<br>
speeds and the impact of  minimum fuel holding restrictions and hull bio-fouling.  Using a representative transit,<br>
we demonstrate that  relative fuel price differences between ports may be  exploited to achieve mission fuel<br>
cost savings of 15%  to 25%, without impacting mission dates. For time  constrained transits, being those with leg<br>
speeds  limited by the minimum fuel holding restriction, a saving  of 4% to 5% is achievable by varying leg  speeds.<br>
Finally, we conclude that challenging minimum  fuel holding requirements can yield up to 5% saving, whilst  hull<br>
bio-fouling has an almost negligible effect in our  model (due to the short time at sea). Extrapolation  indicates<br>
that whilst fuel consumption will invariably  increase for a given speed, it does not affect the fuel  uplift decision<br>
making.},
      number = {GENERAL},
      recid = {7698},
      address = {2020-02-03},
}