Berg Propulsion has been chosen to supply management and propulsion know-how for what will likely be one of many largest hybrid tugs ever delivered, after proprietor Buksér og Berging AS (BuBe) agreed specs with Turkey’s Uzmar Shipyard for its newest newbuild.
Berg has been contracted to supply the total electrical energy and management package deal for the Robert Allan-designed Rampage 4100BB-H tug, which is able to be a part of BuBe’s North Sea operations in December 2024. Supply will embody the electrical motors, drives, foremost switchboard, energy administration system, alarm monitoring system, management system and mode selector. The order builds on longstanding relationships with BuBe and Uzmar, in addition to gathered in-service operations of built-in Berg techniques equal to over 100,000 hours.
Berg’s scope of provide additionally contains twin MTA834CP azimuth thrusters and one MTT114CP bow thruster for the 120-ton bollard pull tug.
Switching seamlessly between working modes, Berg says its propulsion management package deal will likely be decisive within the tug’s superior responsiveness and its capability to repeatedly optimize vitality effectivity. Options comprise energy mode (twin diesel engines + gensets, with load sharing managed by Berg’s MPC800A unit); mechanical + PTO mode; Eco mode (electrical energy from gensets, foremost thrusters run by way of PTI motors – foremost engines disengaged); and standby.
‘Hardware in the Loop’ exams {of electrical} integration, the automation system and related gear will likely be performed as a simulation of the long run sea trial at Berg’s manufacturing facility earlier than manufacturing unit acceptance exams. The intensive will get rid of any interface points earlier than delivering merchandise to the yard, which is able to optimize time administration through the ship acceptance exams and the harbor acceptance exams.
