Upper gearbox of just-delivered big EcoPeller
Schottel’s Wismar, Germany, manufacturing facility has simply shipped the most important EcoPeller ever manufactured by the propulsion specialist. The five-bladed SRE 700 has a propeller diameter of three.6 meters and an enter energy of three.2 MW.
The Schottel EcoPeller’s built-in LE-Drive — embedded L-Drive — permits extra freedom in vessel design. In addition to this, it affords extraordinarily low vibration and noise ranges. The thruster’s controllable pitch propeller permits effectivity will increase by way of pitch adjustment. The just-delivered EcoPeller additionally encompasses a full-feathering operate, enabling the propeller blades to be moved to a low-resistance place if required.
Since its market launch, the SRE has been gaining use in nearly all vessel segments. Thanks to the notably efficient mixture of highly effective propeller thrust and lateral pressure, the SRE fulfills all the necessities of a contemporary high-performance propulsion unit. The hydrodynamically optimized design permits the thruster to provide most steering forces and permits prime values by way of general effectivity and course maintaining capacity. This reduces gas consumption and ensures each decrease working prices and emissions.
According to Schottel, the SRE has beem designed incorporatingthe newest hydrodynamic findings from CFD simulations and mannequin trials and is the primary azimuth unit persistently developed for an electrical drive supply.
