The David Taylor Research Center has funded the development of an electric drive train for a waterjet propulsion system to demonstrate high water speed in a Marine Corps propulsion system demonstrator vehicle. In the water, this vehicle will be propelled by four waterjets, each rated at 400hp, to provide the required thrust. The task was to design and develop a system that would be compact, lightweight, efficient and available to support vehicle demonstration testing. A system trade-off study resulted in selection of an approach which uses four identical electric water propulsion modules, consisting of: an AC alternator controller, an AC induction motor with integral speed decreasing gearbox and a coupling that connects the motor/gearbox to the waterjet. This report documents the hardware design effort, fabrication and testing completed. Keywords: Waterjet propulsion; Electric drives.
Amphibious Vehicle Propulsion System. Volume 1
1990
190 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Combat Vehicles , Marine Engineering , Amphibious vehicles , Drives , Induction motors , Propulsion system components , Waterjet propulsion , Alternating current , Alternators , Control , Electric power , Gearboxes , High rate , Horsepower , Lightweight , Marine corps equipment , Modular construction , Motors , Propulsion systems , Thrust , Trade off analysis , Velocity , Water jets , Electric drive trains
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