The ULE PM sort azimuthing thruster has an built-in electrical prime mover mounted very low between the steering gear, saving vertical house necessities.
Aimed at vessel designs during which onboard house is proscribed, Kongsberg Maritime’s new ULE PM collection retractable azimuth thrusters are smaller than competing models whereas sustaining thrust energy.
The results of an extended design course of targeted on decreasing dimension and boosting effectivity, the ULE PM sort thruster has an built-in electrical prime mover mounted very low between the steering gear. This saves greater than a meter of vertical house in an engineering compartment.
According to Kongsberg, the ULE PM Type is the smallest retractable unit available on the market for any given energy requirement.
Kongsberg’s designers additionally targeted on making the brand new thruster collection simple to put in and keep.
“We took a hard look at our thruster design after seeing the challenges our customers face finding the right equipment with optimal size-to-performance ratios and that work with their vessel designs and operating profiles,” says Pasi Villanen, product supervisor for retractable thrusters at Kongsberg Maritime. “Thanks to thorough testing, these new ULE PM type thrusters are now the best performing units in their size, which makes them a perfect choice for auxiliary propulsion.”
All ULE PM sort thrusters can be found as a Combi unit, which capabilities as an azimuth for maneuvering and dynamic positioning, or as a tunnel thruster when retracted right into a tunnel. The Combi models have optimized drivetrains and hydrodynamics for top thrust and quick response time, permitting the quantity and dimension of propulsion models in a vessel to be decreased.
Kongsberg’s Hydrodynamic Research Center performed a number of simulations and checks on the brand new thruster collection, resulting in new, patent-pending ideas for the ULE PM Combi thrusters, together with optimized unit-to-hull interplay and a brand new nozzle profile.
