Evaluating the Challenge of Selecting a Propulsion Plant for Surface Vessels at the Conceptual Design Phase

EasyChair Preprint 5845

Abstract

Frigates are essential platforms for modern navies primarily to perform missions such as, anti-air warfare (AAW), anti-surface warfare (AsuW) and anti-submarine warfare (ASW) operations. Much less haeavely armed offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) are capable to conduct mainly maritime interception, crime prevention, terrorism-piracy fighting, protecting the environment and exclusive economic zone (EEZ), fishery resources patrol and humanitarian assistance. In order to fulfill above-mentioned tasks, both two types of vessels have highly variable mission profiles throughout the entire speed range. Thus, the propulsion plant should cover this wide operating range, maintaining the basic and vital stringent constraints of naval vessel requirements, as well as, efficient running. The design and selection of propulsion plant is clearly crucial in terms of overall platform integration and performance of the vessel. Necessities and limitations of various options, along with pros and cons, are challenges that the propulsion plant designer will face in early stages of the ship design process. Conceptual design is the first phase in the design process in which all considerations are initially discussed by relevant stakeholders. In this study, alternative propulsion plants and selection criteria for modern frigates and OPVs, will be presented. Subsequently, the interrelationships of these criteria and their influence on the alternative plants will be analyzed and evaluated.

Keyphrases: Frigate, Mission Profile, Offshore Patrol Vessel, Propulsion Plant, conceptual design

@booklet{EasyChair:5845,
  author    = {Selçuk Cin and Uğur Buğra Çelebi},
  title     = {Evaluating the Challenge of Selecting a Propulsion Plant for Surface Vessels at the Conceptual Design Phase},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 5845},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2021}}