Speaker: Philip Dovey, Senior Surveyor, Lloyd's Register
About the presentation:
Navies are increasingly striving to be at the forefront of energy efficient design, by using best practice techniques learnt from civilian operations and implementing the latest in energy saving measures. This allows more power to command or increased reserve with the same amount of generation.
Modern ship designs, such as RFA Tidespring and her sister vessels for the UK Royal Fleet Auxiliary and HMNZS Aotearoa which was recently constructed for the Royal New Zealand Navy, include features such as:
- Wave piercing and hydrodynamically efficient axe bow and hull forms
- Anti-roll tank stabilisation systems
- Hybrid diesel electric propulsion plants across a fully redundant two compartment set up
- State of the art anti-icing systems for Antarctic operations and
- LED lighting.
Both RFA TIidespring and HMNZS Aotearoa were required to be compliant to Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) and the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL) directives due to the requirements for entering commercial fueling terminals.
By leveraging these commercial regulations naval vessels can be designed to be mission and combat capable, whilst being energy efficient and minimizing impact to the environment.
