ABB energy management for cruise ferry
ABB has won an order to provide an energy management system for an environmentally-friendly cruise ferry
ABB has been contracted to provide an energy management system for the new environmentally-friendly cruise ferry for Viking Line, which is being built at STX Finland in Turku.
The 218m ferry will carry up to 2,800 passengers at 22 knots on the route connecting Turku, Finland and Stockholm, Sweden. In line with Viking Line’s environmental commitments, the ferry will use LNG as fuel, claimed to be a first for a passenger vessel of this size. The ship is designed to have extremely low emissions to the air and virtually zero emissions to the sea.
ABB says that Viking Line chose its energy management system for marine applications software – EMMA - which is a part of ABB’s marine automation and control offering, to help manage energy-related processes, practices and decisions on the new ferry, to use fuel efficiently from the beginning of operation.
“One of the top priorities at Viking Line is to lower the emissions and fuel consumption on our fleet. We were looking for a good monitoring tool that automatically regulated power consumption and was as easy to operate as a traffic light as a result ABB’s EMMA became our first choice,” said Kari Granberg, project manager at Viking Line.
EMMA is based on ABB’s process automation software for energy management, which has been deployed to more than 60 process industry customers.
“We are committed to the development of cutting-edge technology for our marine customers so that they can meet their operational efficiency and environmental goals,” said Veli-Matti Reinikkala, head of ABB’s process automation division. “EMMA is a tool that draws on the successes of energy management systems in the process industries and applies them to the specific challenges faced by ship operators.”
ABB’s scope of supply to Viking Line includes EMMA software, which compares and analyses the historical and current operational data of the vessel, then calculates and advises on areas for improvement with easy-to-understand displays. It includes an extended energy management tool that models energy consumption and calculates optimal operating conditions, so that ships can perform with high fuel and energy efficiency.
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