Electric ship drive and power system

Author

Clayton, D.H. ; Sudhoff, S.D. ; Grater, G.F.

fYear

2000

fDate

26-29 June 2000

Firstpage

85

Lastpage

88

Abstract

Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig announced on Jan. 6 that the Land Attack Destroyer (DD 21) will be the US Navy´s first class of ships designed and built with electric drive featuring an integrated power architecture. In addition to supporting the needs of DD 21, this power system architecture was described as a future technology enabler for advanced energy sources and ship capabilities. The warfighting benefit of one such capability, rail guns, was recently evaluated by the CNO´s Strategic Studies Group. This paper discusses aspects of the integration of such a capability into a future destroyer with an integrated power system.

Keywords

electric drives; electric propulsion; military equipment; power systems; pulsed power supplies; railguns; ships; weapons; DD 21; Land Attack Destroyer; US Navy; advanced energy sources; electric ship drive; integrated pulsed power system; power system architecture; rail guns; warfighting; Automation; Guns; Marine vehicles; Power generation; Power systems; Propulsion; Pulse power systems; Rails; Space vector pulse width modulation; Weapons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Modulator Symposium, 2000. Conference Record of the 2000 Twenty-Fourth International

Conference_Location

Norfolk, VA, USA

ISSN

1076-8467

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5826-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MODSYM.2000.896171

Filename

896171