9. Retrofit opportunities aboard USS
Princeton (1/2)
• Improve motor, pump, and fan efficiency via whole-system
design.
• Use VSDs on variable loads.
• Improve duct and pipe pressure drops and entering/leaving
conditions.
• Improve power factor and understanding of its importance.
• Improve electrical power generation efficiency.
• Improve propulsion power efficiency.
• Improve pumping efficiency.
10. • Improve fan efficiency.
• Improve space cooling systems equipment and operations.
• Thermal integration, reusing “waste” heat for space heating,
refrigeration, flash evaporation for potable water, laundry,
cooking.
• Improve energy efficiency of potable water production.
• Improve lighting efficiency and quality.
• Improve air compressor efficiency.
• Upgrade systems sensors, monitoring and controls.
Retrofit opportunities aboard USS
Princeton (2/2)
13. Propulsion: flettner rotor
E-Ship1, owned by wind turbine manufacturer Enercon, uses Flettner rotors.
The cylinders are rotated by a motor (not the wind!) and create a force
perpendicular to the direction of the wind (called the Magnus effect).
14. Hull: robotic shape
Protei is an oil-cleaning sailboat with a shape-shifting hull, leading
to a lower loss when the ship’s nose turns through the wind.
16. type value unit
Fuel Natural Gas 700 $/ton
Energy content 55 MJ/kg
Efficiencies four-stroke 0.35
two-stroke 0.5
generator 0.9
Capital engine 828 $/kW
generator 414 $/kW
amortization period 30 years
hours of operation/year 2000 hours
Calculation 4.81 kWhe/kg fuel
fuel cost 0.15 $/kWh
capital 0.02 $/kWh
1kWh of delivered electricity 0.17 $/kWh
Delivered electricity costs
17. Potable water costs
type value unit
On-shore water Europe 4.1 $/m3
South America 25 $/m3
Flash evaporation 13.8 $/m3
Reversed osmosis 6.9 $/m3
18. Space-cooling costs
type value unit explanation
COP 3.00
System efficiency 0.33 kWhe/kWh thermal
Power requirement thermal 3.52 kW
assumption: 1 ton-hour
per hour
electric 1.17 kW
Energy requirement electric 1.17 kWh
Electricity costs 0.19 $/kWh
Capital costs all equipment 2760.00 $/kW €5M / 2500kW
other 0.00 $/kW
amortization period 15.00 years
hours of operation/year 7000.00 hours
Calculation capital costs 0.03 $/ton-hour
electricity costs 0.23 $/ton-hour
1 ton-hour of delivered cooling 0.26 $/ton-hour of cooling