Diesel Electric Thruster Switchboard, Control & Soft Starter

During the conversion of the P&O European Ferries (Irish Sea) Ltd RoPax vessel ‘European Leader’ at A&P Falmouth an additional Diesel Electric Tunnel Thruster was installed, powered from a standalone Diesel Genset.

Energy Gurus Controls were contracted to deliver a turnkey design, build and commissioning package including:

  • Integrated machinery monitoring, safety and remote control system for the diesel generator prime mover and thruster.
  • Generator Switchboard.
  • 600kW Electronic Soft Starter.
  • Class approved design and drawing package.

You can download an article featuring this project from the March 1999 edition of Marine Engineers Review (MER) as an Adobe Acrobat File (544KB)