Indian Navy has issued an Request For Information (RFI) for indigenously building four Landing Platform Dock (LPD) ships. The RFI has been issued to Mazagon Dock Ltd., Mumbai (MDL), (Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers, Kolkata (GRSE), (Cochin Shipyard Ltd., Kochi (CSL) and Larsen and Toubro Limited (L&T Shipyard), Chennai. These ships will have an Integrated Full Electric Propulsion (IFEP) System, being inducted in the modern Indian Naval warships for the first time. Further, other forthcoming projects of Indian Navy viz. P75 (I) submarines and New Generation Destroyers (NGD) will also have IFEP. Indian Navy has graduated to a builders Navy long time ago. The ship design and construction are done fully indigenously. A majority of ‘Float’ equipment is also procured indigenously. As regards the equipment of ‘Move’ functionality, while the auxiliary machinery is available from local sources, the propulsion machinery and generation machinery are still being supplied by foreign Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEMs). Indian Navy has desires to develop propulsion machinery equipment also indigenously, however, the manufacturing of a marine propulsion plants, viz., gas turbine or a diesel engine requires huge capital investment and hence, is not considered economically viable. The LPD project of the Indian Navy presents a good opportunity to the Indian defense manufacturers in developing the electric propulsion system of these ships indigenously. The electric propulsion system scope covered in this paper includes high-power electric motors, associated control drive and auxiliary machinery. The aim of this research paper is to suggest a road map for indigenous development of electric propulsion machinery, in consonance with the shipbuilding plan of the LPD, P75 (I) and NGD projects Indigenous electric propulsion solution for these projects is a progressive step toward ‘Atmanirbharta’ in Indian warship building programme. In addition, the use of electric propulsion in a ship will result in considerable reduction in emissions, thereby contributing significantly towards global ‘Low Emission’ drive. Mercantile marine world over is moving towards electric propulsion rapidly. Therefore, it is time for Indian warships to switch over to electric propulsion.


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    Titel :

    Indigenous Electric Propulsion System for Indian Navy—Step Towards Atmarirbharta and Low Emissions


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Lect. Notes in Networks, Syst.


    Beteiligte:
    Tuba, Milan (Herausgeber:in) / Akashe, Shyam (Herausgeber:in) / Joshi, Amit (Herausgeber:in) / Alok Bhagwat, N. M. (Autor:in) / Chitrao, Pradnya V. (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2022-11-01


    Format / Umfang :

    23 pages





    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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