Test Bed

Marine Edge has built a testing facility that includes a full regenerative mild hybrid propulsion system.

Our ground-based experimental facility allows us to simulate various ship and powertrain parameters, based on their recordings.

It monitors how the electric motor generator flattens load fluctuations reaching the engine.

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This continuous monitoring helps improve the system's effectiveness for each specific ship configuration and significantly enhances propulsive efficiency.

It is equipped with a diesel engine and a load generating dynamometer that can emulate recordings from seaborne vessels, in addition to the full hardware of our engine load management system, i.e. an electric motor-generator, two torquemeters, a super-capacitor energy reservoir, fuel flow meters, AC/DC and DC/DC inverters, and other ancillary equipment.

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The computer-based Control Center is where data obtained from torque-meters (installed on the shaft) is received and processed, and analyzed for load variation.

It then creates an intervention paradigm or pattern and sends directions to the inverters and electric generator-motor to manage the loads.

The main goal of the test bed is to enable on-site development on a fully functional system of the ELMS and other unique components for real time control, pattern creation and updating.

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The testbed allows us to further enhance and improve the algorithms that generate intervention strategies and the software modules that manage the generator-motor, and optimize utilization of the full propulsion system, and can represent vessel-specific outcome for a variety of ships.