Peter de Vos
Ship Energy Systems, like the propulsion system, electric power system and hydraulic systems, are distribution systems: something (e.g. mechanical power or cooling fluid) is distributed from suppliers to consumers. Ideally, the main components and topology of large distribution systems are known during conceptual design of a ship in order to take these into account in early ship configurations. In current design methods this is not the case which results in amongst others bad cost estimations and expensive alterations to the ship design in later stages.
For the design of the distribution systems to be known in earlier stages of ship design one needs to analyse the dimensions of components and functioning of the system in more detail than currently is the case. This is not done because this requires too much valuable time. It is exactly this challenge that MOSES-CD addresses. MOSES-CD aims to find a design methodology to estimate dimensions of main components and analyse the functioning of large distribution systems during ship conceptual design, without the method being too time-consuming or requiring too many “input”-values.