Cruise Ship Turbines
O Oosterdam is a Holland America Line vessel that features one LM2500 gas turbine-generator set in a CODAG configuration with five diesel generator-sets.
Cruise ship turbines. Further cruise ships found another advantage in the combined gas turbine electric and steam COGES plant because this system yields a much better power density than standard diesel gensets. The two GE LM2500 aeroderivative gas turbines aboard the Millennium have together logged more than 10000 fired hours under a regular maintenance schedule. Century Due to emissions issues still a player.
One for propulsion and one exclusively for electrical power. Gas turbine ship engines are the wave of the future. The larger the cruise ship the greater the demand for electrical power.
Some of the benefits to this engine system are. EVENDALE Ohio -- GE reported that five new cruise ships began commercial operation in 2004 powered by GE aeroderivative gas turbines. The other Princess Cruises vessels that will feature the GE LM2500 gas turbine in a CODAG arrangement include the Diamond Princess February 2004 and Sapphire Princess May 2004.
As the first hybrid-electric powered cruise ship MS Roald Amundsen from Norwegian shipping company Hurtigruten was introduced in 2019. Gas turbines are a relatively new cruise ship power system but they will probably be used more frequently. The worlds first all gas turbine powered cruise ship GTS Millennium entered service in June 2000.
Gas turbine engines -- Coral Princess unique gas turbinediesel enviro-engine combination has proven to be both highly efficient and environmentally sound creating lower exhaust emissions and. Tons of power in very little space. The ship can sail for three hours with the power from the batteries.
Some warships and a few modern cruise ships have also used steam turbines to improve the efficiency of their gas turbines in a combined cycle where waste heat from a gas turbine exhaust is utilized to boil water and create steam for driving a steam turbine. Currently there are a total of six cruise ships in operation that use a combined gas turbine and steam turbine integrated electric drive system COGES plant based on GEs LM2500 gas turbines -- two Royal Caribbean ships Brilliance of the Seas and Radiance of the Seas and four Celebrity Cruises ships Millennium Infinity Summit and Constellation. Electric motors feed by alternators driven by combined gas turbine and steam turbine.
