Title :
Electric ship drive and power system
Author :
Clayton, D.H. ; Sudhoff, S.D. ; Grater, G.F.
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;
Conference_Titel :
Power Modulator Symposium, 2000. Conference Record of the 2000 Twenty-Fourth International
Conference_Location :
Norfolk, VA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5826-0
DOI :
10.1109/MODSYM.2000.896171
