Tag: engine room

Warsash Maritime Academy Opening New Full Mission Engine Room Simulator

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A tour of a ship's engine room - a 300,000 tonne tanker

Ongoing simulation model development focuses on vessel efficiency. Kongsberg Maritime has released a sophisticated Engine Room Simulator (ERS) model based on a Dual Fuel Diesel Electric (DFDE) Engine Room configuration from a modern liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier. The new DFDE model will offer the most sophisticated simulator training for LNG engineers available today.DFDE driven vessels are becoming more and more common and the new engine room simulator model has been designed to meet the growing training demands for DFDE propulsion aboard both LNG carriers and other vessels, in order to meet the requirements for SOx reduction set by the IMO."The training requirement for Dual Fuel engines is growing rapidly," explains Leif Pentti Halvorsen, Product Manager for Engine Room Simulators, Kongsberg Maritime. "Of the 30 LNG carriers with non-steam turbine propulsion on order at Samsung as of December 2006, 16 featured DFDE propulsion. Since then, the share of new LNG carriers with DFDE propulsion systems has grown to be the majority of all new LNG carrier buildings.""According to LNG world shipping statistics of all LNG carriers on order, 36 out of 49 have a DFDE configuration . KONGSBERG K-chief systems are used to manage and monitor the necessary power and ...

Engine Room Tour on a Container Ship