Gas Turbines for Cruise Ships
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- Опубліковано 14 січ 2020
- Tons of power - in very little space. As an alternative to reciprocating engines, gas turbines offer extremely low weight and energy-dense propulsion options all while reducing emissions.
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I love this. They already run diesel electric. Cruise ships are the ideal candidate for small CHP since they need so much air conditioning anyway and they probably run a distillation water plant from waste heat more efficiently than electrical reverse osmosis.
Exactly! Good time to buy stock in Capstone or other turbine-producers!
Really!? That is amazing, good job Solar turbines...
this is a great idea !!!
a spectacular project with minimal environmental impact ... it would be carried out on a large scale on all cargo or cruise ships
Clean quiet cruise ship
Which book is best to study all thing about marine gas turbine?
I was a laughing stock while presenting my idea that a marine platform (oil rig, cruise ship, etc) could use a gas turbine instead of marine diesel. Well, who's laughing now??
i thought of it to if it works for airplanes it has to work for ships too, as both do cruise and acceleration isn´t that critical of an issue like in cars. and fueled by LNG you wouldn´t have pollutants such as sulfur and nitric oxide i wonder what the efficiency would be but you can use the rotation of the turbine to drive a propeller and use the heat to power a steam engine
Don’t the Radiance-class of Royal Caribbean ships use this technology already?
Can that be applied to larger surface warships like the battleships and battlecruisers?
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Why don't use hot smoke to produce steam for steam turbine too!? (Combined cycle)
What’s the mpg?
awful lol
you're hauling around millions of tons, you need A LOT of energy for that
Miles per gallon? The question should be how many feet per gallon... It's a huge ship, it doesn't get "MPG".
All I care about is the fuel consumption efficiency
Same
A large ship can use up to 250 tons of fuel which is about 80,645 gallons of gasoline per day.
Most Cruise ships would use about 150 tons per day or about 48,387 gallons. Normal fuel consumption for a Cruise ship would be about 2300 gallons per hour but smaller ships with more efficient engines can be as low as 1400 gallons per hour
The mpg is 0.033 miles per gallon or 30 gallons per mile for a more efficient engine and 0.02 miles per gallon or 50 gallons per mile for a less efficient one.
Because they use so much fuel some can hold up to 4 million gallons of fuel(most of the time heavy fuel oil(HFO) is used as fuel because it is cheaper than cleaner fuel sources such as distillates but can be pretty bad for the environment) at a time most range from 1-4 million gallons.
The total efficiency will probably be very high, because they can use most of the waste heat for other things.
The latest bulge blunt nose ships are even uglier!