METS- 3 scrubber barge will deal with emissions from ships berthe in California ports/
A self-propelled, scrubber barge vessel being constructed to to seize and deal with exhaust stack emissions vessels within the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles is to have a Schottel propulsion system. The 26 meter lengthy and 13 meter huge barge is to be constructed by the Greenbrier Marine shipyard in Portland, Oregon, for Clean Air Engineering – Maritime, Inc. (CAE-M), which develops and operates techniques that take away diesel emissions from the auxiliary engines and boilers of ocean-going vessels whereas at berth or anchor.
The barge is a element of the METS-3 marine exhaust therapy system designed by Fassmer Technical Projects and CAE-M has plans to construct extra items for operation at additional California ports.
“It is more important than ever to develop innovative technologies that help reduce emissions in ports to an absolute minimum,” stated CAE-M president Nicholas Tonsich. “Clean Air Engineering – Maritime’s latest METS-3 will succeed in doing exactly that. We are excited to have Schottel as an experienced partner at our side and that they are part of this flagship project.”
“A number of factors had to be taken into account in the design of this next-generation CAE-M METS-3, which is why we were looking for a reliable partner to cooperate with.” stated Tim Klaybor, managing director at Fassmer USA. “Schottel and Fassmer share a long-standing relationship. We have made positive experiences, with both reliable products and competent service.”
FOUR RUDDERPROPELLERS, ONE MASTERSTICK
The essential propulsion system of the scrubber barge consists of two electrically-driven Schottel RudderPropellers sort SRP 150 (400 kW every) that includes propeller diameters of 1.2 meters. The SRPs will run on biodegradable oils (EALs). The scope of supply consists of the entire electrical bundle, which contains electrical motors, frequency drives in addition to a transportable management station for the Schottel MasterStick.
The Schottel MasterStick is a joystick system that may management as much as six propulsion items concurrently. The thrust and the alignment of the propulsion items are managed and distributed by a software program in such a method that every one translational and rotational actions required for manoeuvring the barge are executed optimally.
The vessel’s motion can thus be managed intuitively and comfortably in any desired instructions of movement or in a mix of motiond=d.
