“Yuehua Erhao” Ship
Upbound Ceremony of “Yuehua Erhao”
Successful Trial Voyage of “Yuehua Erhao”
Main Switchboard Inspection Site of “Yuehua Erhao”
On June 13, 2021, “Yuehua Erhao”, the largest 4000m³ LPG ship in the Yangtze River Basin built by Wuzhou Shipbuilding, sailed smoothly from the Wuzhou Shipbuilding wharf to its home port in Hunan Yueyang at full speed. On April 8, 2021, the ship’s automatic power station passed the CCS inspection. It was successfully launched at 10:18 on April 15 and completed the trial voyage on May 18. All test results meet the specifications and regulations, and achieve the design requirements, the trial voyage was a complete success.
This ship is a normal temperature full-pressure LPG ship with twin engines, twin propellers and twin stern rudders, which is designed by CSDI (Changjiang Shipping Design Institute). The whole ship is made of steel with partial double bottom and double shell structure. The steam pressure of tank design is 1.75 MPa, the design temperature is (-10~+45)°C. It can be used to carry a variety of LPG goods, including butylene, propylene, pentene, propane, pentane, mixed butane/propane, VCM, DME, Mixed C4, etc. The designed navigation zone of this ship is inland river A/B class navigation zone, J2 class segment. It mainly sails from Shanghai to Yichang, and then passes through the Three Gorges Dam to Chongqing.
The ship’s main switchboard adopts SmartGen HMC6 multi-master power management controller to realize automatic schedule and protection functions of 3 main gensets. During the commissioning process of the power station, SmartGen on-site service personnel, together with the main switchboard manufacturer, the project management staff of Wuzhou Shipbuilding, the shipowner’s representative and complete genset manufacturer, worked side by side to ensure that the power station passed the acceptance of CCS with high standard. It is another successful application of SmartGen marine control products in marine automatic power station.
“Yuehua Erhao” Main Switchboard
SmartGen Marine Engine Control & Power Station Power Management Solution Diagram
After more than 10 years of unremitting efforts, SmartGen marine related products have passed BV and CCS certification. These products are widely used in offshore platforms, offshore wind power booster stations, luxury yachts, public service ships, ro-ro passenger ships, container ships, bulk ships, crude oil carriers, refined oil carrier, full-rotating tugs and other types ship.
