The Norwegian mass provider Kryssholm will certainly quickly have the ability to handle brand-new projects adhering to a personalized upgrade by the Schottel Modernization as well as Conversion Team [Photo: Per Rydheim]
The Kryssholm, a 2011-built bulker that is presently thought about the globe’s biggest fish feed vessel, will certainly quickly have the ability to handle brand-new projects adhering to conversion to battery crossbreed procedure as well as a personalized upgrade by the Schottel Modernization as well as Conversion Team.
Schottel claims that a relatively tiny installment initiative will certainly produce fantastic benefits, such as enhanced ability to move as well as reduced ecological influence.
Two retracting Schottel rudderpropellers kind SRP 130 R (300 kW each) as well as 2 transverse thrusters kind STT 1 (450 kW each) will certainly be set up along with the existing major propulsion system of the vessel. This will certainly optimize its ability to move capacities as well as its setting security will certainly be enhanced tremendously. In turn, this will certainly expand the vessel’s procedure accounts to make sure that it can be made use of for a bigger selection of future jobs.
To lower the ecological influence, the Schottel propulsion devices will certainly be driven by electrical motors powered by a crossbreed grid of batteries as well as generators. By furnishing the vessel with a cutting edge power monitoring system, the called for electrical power is supplied as needed according to functional requirements.
“Schottel, with whom we have a long-standing and consistently good partnership, has again convinced us by finding an individual, custom-fit solution for the vessel,” claims Nils Tore Øpstad Melingen, General Manager at vessel proprietor Bio Feeder AS. “We are absolutely satisfied with the performance of the Schottel thrusters in our other vessel and thus decided the same way again. A decisive factor was also the spare parts and service supply – with Schottel as OEM, this is reliably secured in the long term.”
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Kryssholm gauges a total size of 89.9 meters as well as a size of 13.6 meters. With a freight capability of 3,000 heaps, the vessel will certainly be running for Biomar as a fish feed vessel 6 months a year; the remainder of the time it will certainly be hired to Wagle Chartering for carrying basic freight.
The vessel is identified by RINA. Pino Spadafora, Marine Commercial Senior Director at RINA, commented: “Companies that have a deep knowledge of technology must use it for the never-ending improvement of the shipping industry. That’s why it’s important for us to be partners with Bio Feeder and Schottel in this project. RINA will carry out the review of the proposed solutions, the approval of the design, the certification of the components and the commissioning on board, applying the expertise in energy optimization and the competence in environmentally sustainable applications.”
The conversion is set up to be finished in the very first quarter of 2021.
