STADT has recently received an order from Norway’s Meloyfjord Fishing Company in for its patented electric propulsion system.
The company has chosen the STADT STASCHO diesel-electric propulsion system for its new purse seiner vessel MS Meloyfjord. The propulsion power will be 1400kW, driven by five gensets of 220kW and 425kW each.
The fishing vessel has been designed by Seacon AS in Måløy, and will be built at the Blaalid yard in Norway. This will be the fourth fishing vessel built in Norway based on the STADT full-electric propulsion system, and the company says that this indicates that it is now a clear trend that newbuild Norwegian fishing vessels will use this solution.
The STADT system has been tested on three purse seiners over a two year period. The first vessel was MS Harto, where the fuel consumption has been accurately measured over a long period of time in different operation modes. The results show a reduction in diesel consumption of less than 30l per hour when the speed and general power demand onboard is at its lowest.
Harto has 1100kW main electric propulsion, and the electric energy comes from four Scania gensets of 425kW each. They start and stop automatically, depending on the energy requirement onboard. This way fuel consumption and emissions such as NOX ,CO2, and SO are reduced to an absolute minimum.
The STADT system has also been well tested on two larger ships, with 5000kW electric propulsion on each. STADT reports that the operation over the past two and a half years has been 100% successful, with no reported undesirable stops. This is one of the most important features of the STADT system - its rugged design is suitable for trouble-free operation onboard ships for more than 25 years.
