SPI
Ship&Offshore | Issue 04/2018

Bespoke propeller designs raise efficiency

May 2018 | Editor

Germany’s Piening Propeller has revealed details of the first two projects involving the installation of Piening Controllable Propellers (PCP). At the beginning of the year, two five-bladed PCPs of type PCP 5-705 with a diameter of 2.5m were retrofitted to the hopper dredger Thor R , owned by Danish operator Rohde-Nielsen. The company has ordered two further PCPs for a sister vessel. The first water-hydraulic propeller PCP 2-350F began operation in April following the re-engining of the 50m-long Polish navy ship Iskra ...

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