Powering the Fleet

摘要

A ship's architecture - the arrangement of equipment and how it's connected together - depends on the ship's operating profile and what the anticipated loads are, among other things. There are three fundamental types of architectures: 1. One is segregated mechanical propulsion, featuring a set of generators that generate electrical power for all the systems aboard the ship, and a separate set of engines that use reduction gears to power propellers or water jets. 2. A second is the integrated power system, where all power gets turned into electricity and is sent to a main electrical bus, which can send that electricity to propulsion or to shipboard systems. 3. The third version is a hybrid system that combines the mechanical propulsion and the integrated power system.