Flowserve Thruster

Flowserve Pleuger Azimuth Thruster with tilted axis for DP-operation of semi-sub drill rigs

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Thruster
• semi-sub
• propeller
• DP
• Pleuger
• propulsion
• axis
• tilted
• Hamburg

[multimolti]

Great video! Very informative!

[thepet3r]

@Carlosouza87 Good intuition but a little faulty reasoning. The horizontal component does not decrease by sin(7deg) = 12%, but rather we consider cos(7deg) = 99.3% compared with cos(0deg) = 100%. The loss is the difference, which is approximately 0.7% in the horizontal direction.

[MrNaxiotis]

thumbs up if you are a mechanical engineer...>:)

[thkokkonis]

@thepet3r this is said regarding the vectors. For 100 N of force a 7 degree tilt produces 99,25 N horizontal (useful) component plus a 12,19 N vertical (fighting gravity) component. AS known, vectors do not sum as algebric values BUT assuming force is related to power by a power-two relation, then we could have 9.851 horizontal-149 vertical adding up to 10.000 and explaining a final 1,49% loss of usefull power.

[jdmk20aek]

awesome!!!!!!!!



[shakthiarunk]

GREAT INFO

[shakthiarunk]

GREAT INFO

[nunayafb]

@Carlosouza87 I was going to post a similar comment, 7 degrees down thrust means 7 degrees of lift which is wasteful as it pointlessly fights gravity. They did say the hull interaction was like 15-20% though so they get 3-7% net improvement.

[lax4321]

Carlos - I was thinking the same thing and was about to make the same comment!

[tugcrazy]

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh big words

[kompressor124]

LOL We have ZERO thruster to hull interaction people!! ZERO!!! That means that no thrull babies!!