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Hybrid Turbocharger: Maritime Technology Innovation

- Hybrid Turbocharger utilizes exhaust gas energy to power a high-speed generator integrated within the turbocharger, providing up to 5% of main engine output and significantly reducing fuel consumption without auxiliary power generation. - During slow steaming, a hybrid turbocharger incorporates an electric motor to assist turbocharger rotation in place of a separate auxiliary blower, reducing low-load operation costs. - MV Shin Koho was the world's first merchant vessel equipped with hybrid turbocharger technology. Hybrid turbocharges have also been installed on several large car carriers built for NYK Line.

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Hybrid Turbocharger: Maritime Technology Innovation

- Hybrid Turbocharger utilizes exhaust gas energy to power a high-speed generator integrated within the turbocharger, providing up to 5% of main engine output and significantly reducing fuel consumption without auxiliary power generation. - During slow steaming, a hybrid turbocharger incorporates an electric motor to assist turbocharger rotation in place of a separate auxiliary blower, reducing low-load operation costs. - MV Shin Koho was the world's first merchant vessel equipped with hybrid turbocharger technology. Hybrid turbocharges have also been installed on several large car carriers built for NYK Line.

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Hybrid Turbocharger

Maritime Technology Innovation

Lately, the maritime sector has been investing heavily in R & D to cut
down harmful emissions from the ship, along with reducing fuel
consumption and operating cost. Maritime market has seen several
developments in the past mainly for developing waste energy recovery
systems such as economiser, turbocharger etc. A marine technology
innovation has taken the research to all new level and to a step ahead. It
is called the Hybrid Turbocharger.

Hybrid turbocharger is developed by Mitsubishi heavy industries and it


differs from conventional turbochargers in terms of both waste recovery
and fuel saving. Exhaust gas energy is recovered to turn the compressor,
which supplies scavenge air to the main engine and also generates
electricity through an alternator attachment incorporated in the
turbocharger known as MET hybrid turbocharge The turbine and
compressor does the heat energy recovery work and the alternator is
used to generate electrical power without consuming any extra fuel as it
is driven by the shaft power of the turbocharger.

Requirements for setting up hybrid turbocharger

For a hybrid turbocharger, three basic things required are:

1. Conventional turbocharger with extended shaft to accommodate


alternator at blower end.

2. A specially designed very compact alternator to run at very high speed


of around 9000rom.

3. A cooling system for alternator as heat generated will be more due to


its compact size for given rpm.
Construction of hybrid turbocharger

A two part shell made form cast steel is fitted to the blower side scroll,
which is built up with higher rigidity, in order to support alternator within
the turbocharger silencer.

The lower half shell is attached first and is made such that it acts like a
sump to collect lubricating oil discharged from the alternator.

Intake filter and silencer are mounted above the alternator assembly with
sufficient gap to allow air to pass over the shell in to the compressor
blades. Cooling water jacket made up of aluminium is provided around
the rotor winding and external cooling air is also supplied at extreme ends
and centre of the windings. The alternator and compressor are connected
by special designed flexible coupling. The length and weight of the Hybrid
T/C is 313mm and 4600kg more as compare to conventional system.
Working of Hybrid Turbocharger

- The working is similar to any other generator, the only difference


here is the prime mover which is turbocharger itself.
- The speed of prime mover governs the voltage and frequency of the
generator. An initial D.C power is provided so that the required
output voltage and frequency can be achieved.
-  By using the electric-assist function, the ship will be able to save
energy consumption substantially by at slow steaming by reducing
the amount of time of auxiliary blower operation.
- The turbocharger combines the function of electric generation as a
hybrid turbocharger and that of Variable Turbine Inlet in addition to
the electric assist function.

Advantages

  With only little increase in the dimensions, enough power can be


generated from main engine operation.

 Fuel saving as the heat recovery system is used for driving the
alternator.

 The generator can function as motor at low load operation to drive


blower for maintaining scavenge air pressure of the main engine.
 Eliminate the installation of auxiliary blower for main engine.

 As no extra fuel is used, it helps cutting down emission from ship.


At 9500 KW, the hybrid system can generate about 756 KW which
is enough to take up full sea load of a normal size merchant vessel.

Summary

-  Hybrid Turbocharger, which incorporates high-speed generators,


utilizes exhaust gas waste energy and provides up to 5% of the
main engine output. Consequently that makes it possible to
significantly reduce ship fuel consumption without the use of
auxiliary diesel power generation.
-  During slow steaming, separate auxiliary blower was necessary for
assisting the turbocharger rotation, in general. Electric-assist
turbocharger which is used in place of auxiliary blower incorporates
an electric motor that assists the driving of the turbocharger and
reduces the operation cost for low load operation of Engine.
- Variable Turbine Inlet (VTI) features a special nozzle ring which is
cylindrically divided into outer and inner part. The gas passage to
the inner part has a control valve which shuts off gas flow into it.
This unique system is integrated with the gas inlet casing which
enables two-step variation of the turbine capacity. It is simple and
reliable solution of flexible turbocharger operation, especially at low
load.

Application

- MV Shin Koho, a 292 m long 180,000 dwt bulk carrier with a draft
of 24.5m is the world’s first merchant vessel to successfully
equipped with the hybrid turbocharger technology.
-  Hybrid turbocharges have been installed on the six latest large car
carriers built by Shin Kurushima Dockyard Co., Ltd. and Imabari
Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. for NYK Line.

References- www.vesselfinder.com, www.mhi-mme.com

Presented by-
Aditya D Joglekar
SEM VI DIV I
B.Tech Marine Engineering

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