SHAFTS AND PROPELLERS

Slow-running PM motors to become ‘widespread’

4 years ago

Low-speed permanent-magnet (PM) motors driving large propellers will become widespread “once electrification happens in segments that have traditionally been diesel engine driven”, believes Emil Cerdier, Product Director at Berg Propulsion.

Berg Propulsion’s patented PM drive arrangement has the shaft passing through the motor but supported on its own bearings

Low-speed permanent-magnet (PM) motors driving large propellers will become widespread “once electrification happens in segments that have traditionally been diesel engine driven”, believes Emil Cerdier, Product Director at Berg Propulsion.