Motors for Ship Propulsion
Electric propulsion of ships has experienced steady expansion for several decades. Since the early 20th century, icebreakers have employed the flexibility and easy control of direct current (dc) motors to provide for ship operations that split ice with back and forth motion of the ship. More recentl...
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| author | Banerjee, Arijit Englebretson, Steven Kirtley, James L., Jr. |
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| description | Electric propulsion of ships has experienced steady expansion for several decades. Since the early 20th century, icebreakers have employed the flexibility and easy control of direct current (dc) motors to provide for ship operations that split ice with back and forth motion of the ship. More recently, cruise ships have employed diesel-electric propulsion systems to take advantage of the flexibility of diesel, as opposed to steam engines, and because the electric plant can also be used for hotel loads. Research vessels, ferries, tankers, and special purpose vessels have also taken advantage of increased flexibility and fuel efficiency with electric propulsion. Today, the U.S. Navy is building an “all electric” destroyer to be named “Zumwalt,” which employs two induction motors for propulsion. There are several different classes of motors that might be considered for use in ship propulsion, ranging from dc (commutator) motors through conventional induction and synchronous motors to permanent magnet synchronous machines, doubly fed machines and superconducting alternating current (ac) and acyclic homopolar machines. This review paper describes features of some of the major classes of motor that might be used in ship propulsion. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1023812022-09-26T13:07:26Z Motors for Ship Propulsion Banerjee, Arijit Englebretson, Steven Kirtley, James L., Jr. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Kirtley, James L., Jr. Kirtley, James L., Jr. Banerjee, Arijit Electric propulsion of ships has experienced steady expansion for several decades. Since the early 20th century, icebreakers have employed the flexibility and easy control of direct current (dc) motors to provide for ship operations that split ice with back and forth motion of the ship. More recently, cruise ships have employed diesel-electric propulsion systems to take advantage of the flexibility of diesel, as opposed to steam engines, and because the electric plant can also be used for hotel loads. Research vessels, ferries, tankers, and special purpose vessels have also taken advantage of increased flexibility and fuel efficiency with electric propulsion. Today, the U.S. Navy is building an “all electric” destroyer to be named “Zumwalt,” which employs two induction motors for propulsion. There are several different classes of motors that might be considered for use in ship propulsion, ranging from dc (commutator) motors through conventional induction and synchronous motors to permanent magnet synchronous machines, doubly fed machines and superconducting alternating current (ac) and acyclic homopolar machines. This review paper describes features of some of the major classes of motor that might be used in ship propulsion. 2016-05-03T14:19:36Z 2016-05-03T14:19:36Z 2015-11 2015-10 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0018-9219 1558-2256 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/102381 Kirtley, James L., Arijit Banerjee, and Steven Englebretson. “Motors for Ship Propulsion.” Proc. IEEE 103, no. 12 (December 2015): 2320–2332. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9568-2371 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5347-2410 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JPROC.2015.2487044 Proceedings of the IEEE Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Prof. Kirtley via Phoebe Ayers |
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