Just to keep this going from thread321-301280
Alewijnse and Vacon teamed up (with Shipkits BV) with essentially the same variable speed AC and DC grid layout:
http://marine-diesels.net/news/http:/marine-diesels.net/news/tag/alewijnse/
ABB also finally found a customer for their DC grid...
While I posted this in the Marine/Ocean Engineering Forum for general comments, I would most appreciate any comments of specific electrical difficulties with these new hybrid type diesel electric systems being proposed by both Siemens and ABB. See here...
There seems to be a small trend lately in potential future diesel electric propulsion platforms. I first noticed it in a few whitepapers out there. Then Caldonian Maritime moved towards it with their hybrid propulsion architecture (see pg 14, 18, & 19 of ppt)...
