Improving engine robustness for diesel electric vessels

At The Motorship Propulsion & Emissions Conference in May, Ricardo UK presented a tool for evaluating how a multi-engine diesel electric vessel’s reliability could be boosted by advanced engine control, with or without an energy storage device. Here we present the paper, authored by Jonathan Brown, James Manuelyan, Pascal Revereault, in edited form.

Figure 1: Schematic of ship diesel-electric propulsion system

At The Motorship Propulsion & Emissions Conference in May, Ricardo UK presented a tool for evaluating how a multi-engine diesel electric vessel’s reliability could be boosted by advanced engine control, with or without an energy storage device. Here we present the paper, authored by Jonathan Brown, James Manuelyan, Pascal Revereault, in edited form.