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 couplings or torque-limiting technologies.
Designed
