Active front-end for shaft power generation and voltage control in FREMM frigates integrated power system: Modeling and validation

Author

Sulligoi, G. ; Castellan, S. ; Aizza, M. ; Bosich, D. ; Piva, L. ; Lipardi, G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. Eng. & Inf. Technol., Univ. of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

fYear

2012

fDate

20-22 June 2012

Firstpage

452

Lastpage

457

Abstract

Italian Navy is being equipping its fleet with the new FREMM class of frigates, developed under a joint program by Italian and French Navies. They are conceptually new war ships endowed with a hybrid propulsion system, composed by a gas turbine and two electric drives, which can be operated also as shaft-generators. University of Trieste has been charged with developing a software simulator of the FREMM integrated electrical power system and its propulsion drives, which has been recently delivered. The simulator will be employed by Italian Navy for virtual tests and personnel training activities. The paper is focused on the shaft-generator operation of the electric propulsion drives and their simulation. Numeric results are displayed in the paper and compared with factory tests in order to validate the simulator.

Keywords

electric drives; electric propulsion; marine power systems; personnel; power generation control; shafts; voltage control; FREMM Frigates integrated electrical power system; French navy; Italian navy; University of Trieste; active front-end; factory testing; gas turbine; hybrid electric propulsion drive system; personnel training activity; shaft power generation; shaft-generator operation; software simulator; virtual testing; voltage control; war ship; Bridge circuits; Generators; Load modeling; Marine vehicles; Mathematical model; Propulsion; Voltage control; Active front-end; all electric ship; integrated power system; shaft-generator; voltage control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion (SPEEDAM), 2012 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Sorrento

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1299-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPEEDAM.2012.6264570

Filename

6264570