Ship&Offshore | Ausgabe 05/2018
The Switch
Yaskawa Environmental Energy/The Switch will showcase the multi-megawatt DC power system with its DC-Hub and unique Electronic Bus Link (EBL), which deliver fuel and cost savings, and unrivaled reliability. The Switch DC-Hub consists of several independent power drives, which are frequency converters connected to the ship’s DC link, each being assigned a separate load or source function. When one converter carries the DC voltage, another can run different connected loads. Batteries can also serve in source or load mode depending on whether the system is draining or charging them....