Being
trialled
at
its
Yokohama
Dockyard
&
Machinery
Works,
the
system
–
a
computer-controlled
hydraulic
valve-based
design
developed
by
UK
outfit
Artemis
Intelligent
Power
–
is
being
fine-tuned
for
installation
in
demonstration
turbines
at
Hunterston,
in
Scotland
this
June,
and
offshore
at
Fukushima,
Japan,
in
August
2014.
MHI
aims
to
have
commercial
model
ready
for
serial
production
in
2015.
The
new
“digital
displacement”
drive-train
–
which
has
been
retrofitted
into
a
MHI
MWT100
gear-driven
design
–
powers
twin
brushless
synchronous-generators
using
a
high-pressure
oil-hydraulic
concept
found
in
many
industries’
motors,
brakes,
fluid…
