Proceedings of ICES2006 ASME Internal Combustion Engine Division 2006 Spring Technical Conference Proceedings of ICE6: May 8-10,

2006, Aachen, Germany 2006 Spring Conference of the ASME Internal Combustion Engine Division May 7-10, 2006, Aachen, Germany

ICES2006-1366 ICES2006-1366
SIMULATION OF MARINE DIESEL ENGINE PROPULSION SYSTEM DYNAMICS DURING EXTREME MANEUVERING
George A. Livanos George N. Simotas George G. Dimopoulos Nikolaos P. Kyrtatos

Laboratory of Marine Engineering, School of Naval and Marine Engineering National Technical University of Athens 9, Iroon Polytechniou st., Zografos, GR-15710, Athens, Greece Phone: +30 210 7721119, Fax: +30 210 7721120 E-mail: nkyrt@naval.ntua.gr

ABSTRACT The dynamic behavior of a typical four-stroke, mediumspeed, marine diesel engine driving a Controllable Pitch Propeller (CPP) is investigated during ship maneuvering including fast propeller pitch changes. A modular model has been developed in Simulink/Matlab for the simulation of the dynamics of ship propulsion. The developed model considers the ship propulsion system as a set of three main modules: the engine, the propeller and the ship hull. The developed ship propulsion dynamics model has been validated with a wide range of experimental data from a 500 kW test engine (MAN B&W 5L16/24), coupled to a four quadrant electric brake (AEG), installed at the test-bed of the Laboratory of Marine Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA/LME). The model was then used for the investigation of marine diesel engine behavior during load changing including some extreme maneuvering case scenarios such as Crash Stop, Full Astern and Full Ahead maneuvers. The resulting ship propulsion model is a reduced order model, which can easily be used for detailed studies such as engine control during fast transient loadings, with accuracy and small computational cost. INTRODUCTION Four-stroke marine propulsion diesel engines are frequently coupled with Controllable Pitch Propellers (CPP) for increased maneuvering capabilities and proper matching of load in all ship operating conditions. During the maneuvering, the ship has to comply with international navigation standards

and moreover the main engine has also to comply with the manufacturer specifications and limits. The ship propulsion system response during extreme maneuvering (corresponding to rapid propeller pitch changes) is traditionally assessed with full scale ship trials. In this context, the development of cost effective simulation tools is attractive. A detailed simulation study of a slow speed diesel engine performance during ship maneuvers in the case of a fixed pitch propeller direct-drive configuration was performed by Kyrtatos et al. [1]. In this simulation work, the process thermodynamic code MoTher (Motor Thermodynamics) was used and the engine response was adequately predicted. Recently, Campora et al. [2] performed numerical simulation of ship propulsion transients using a model developed in Simulink/Matlab software environment, including sub-models for cylinders, inlet and exhaust gas plenums, compressor and turbine in the model. In the case of a ship propulsion plant consisting of a four stroke engine connected to a controllable pitch propeller, the transient phenomenon duration is much longer in comparison with the transient operation of an engine coupled to generator, since the ship inertia is much higher than generator inertia. Thus, increased simulation time is required for the complete transient response study. The objective of the work presented in this paper, is the development of a reduced order model capable of performing simulations with less computational cost than the detailed thermodynamic tools. In contrast to detailed models, the reduced ship propulsion model can easily be used for engine control studies due to reduced computational cost and simpler structure.

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