Kongsberg Maritime has launched a new portfolio of fully ‘Integrated Vessel Concepts’ designed to harmonise handling, operations and energy systems on a wide range of specific vessel types.
The concepts are part of Kongsberg’s ‘integration strategy’ that aims to leverage existing Kongsberg technology to achieve efficiency improvements. It enables more dynamics and distributed power management across different systems onboard.
The first set of ships to receive Integrated Vessel Concept configurations cover wide range of container ships, forage carrier, FPSO, inspection maintenance & repair, research, Ro-pax, shuttle tanker, small scale LNG, superyacht, trawler and wind farm support.
Kongsberg is also developing its electrical systems supply to include switchboards and drives to integrate with on board technology, ensuring optimal power consumption for dynamic vessel operations.
The integration of disparate systems, distributed power management, data sharing on board and ashore can lead to enhanced decision-making across the operational chain.
New systems have been developed to use within Kongsberg’s integrated vessel concepts, including integrated vessel dynamics into the power management layer, providing a new concept for energy control. By integrating all elements of the power plant to the energy control layer and distributing control functions closer to the consumers with fast acting sensors, the overall efficiency of the ship can be improved.
Dynamic Load Penerrediction (DLP) is a system used to predict power usage for a vessel’s thrusters, Dynamic Inertia Control (DIC) and Dynamic Supervision & Control (SDC). Solutions for power plant optimisation include power regeneration using permanent magnetic electric motors for rotating equipment and enhanced battery solutions for peak shaving and storage. Vessels with large rotating equipment like winches and electric gangways, which are designed to convert motion into power are suitable for such systems.
Kongsberg is also working in Electro, Instrument and Telecom (EIT) projects to expand its energy line to work towards creating free energy for hybrid or fully electric power configurations.
Srinivas Tati, Vice President, Business Development, Kongsberg Maritime commented: “Our approach to integration goes much deeper. We have studied in-depth how different vessels operate to understand how the unification of on board technologies can change how we think about and conduct maritime operations at every level.”
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