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The idea of the Communaute ‘De Communes Des Deux Vallee’ was to understand the importance of giving its passengers both comfort and environmental protection in a single package. The agency commissioned the L’Escapade<\/em>, designed by Belgian naval architects DN&T and built at the Alumarine shipyard in Coueron on the Loire Atlantique.<\/p>\n

L’Escapade<\/em> is 28 metres long and 5 metres wide, can hold 102 cruise passengers for a few hours of navigation or alternatively it can accommodate 60 people for sit down meals aboard.<\/p>\n

The customer’s request was to be able to navigate rivers at cruising speed in utmost silence while at the same time having a vessel that would lend itself to different uses such as cruise-speed navigation, catering cruises, special events and so on; the solution put forward by the shipyard met all these needs using a Transfluid hybrid system.<\/p>\n

The boat is equipped with a Volvo D5A TA engine providing 118 kW at 2300 rpm, combined with a Transfluid model HM2000 hybrid transmission and a Power shift model Revermatic 11-700RBD with a reduction ratio of 1.88 as well an integrated thrust bearing. The electrical power of the hybrid system is 75 kW. The energy is provided by on-board Exide FE-LI-PO 4 batteries that supply the hybrid system while navigating in pure electric mode.<\/p>\n

The Transfluid hybrid system fitted on L’Escapade<\/em> is the HM2000 model with a 75 Kw rated thrust electric engine at a rotation speed of 3000 rpm and powered on 300 V dc voltage batteries by a single frequency bidirectional drive which enables the use of the electric engine both as a motor and as a generator. A Translfuid Revermatic marine gear is fitted on the hybrid system and this, together with the power shift technology installed, makes thrust smoother.<\/p>\n

The hybrid module provides what Transfluid calls a \u2018booster mode\u2019. This mode allows the skipper to add the thrust of the diesel engine to that of the electric motor, even in the transitional rotation speed phase, especially in complex navigation phases or while manoeuvring.<\/p>\n

Transfluid claims that his simple solution that puts together hybrid transmission and the hybrid marine reversing gear is appreciated by the shipyard because it offers easy assembly of the hybrid transmission on the diesel engine and ease of fitting it on the propulsion line.<\/p>\n

The hybrid system’s interface standardization also enabled the shipyard to freely choose the most suitable diesel engine for this application, allowing it to reach top propulsion efficiency.<\/p>\n

The first impressions of the vessel\u2019s tourist customers are encouraging and positive. Passengers sail on the Oise in absolute silence, surrounded by nature and without the noise and the emissions which could harm the surrounding environment.<\/p>\n

By Jake Frith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Italian marine transmission specialist Transfluid, has supplied a hybrid system for a new passenger boat on the river Oise, a tributary of the Seine which passes through Belgium and France. It is of particular note as a standardized interface allowed the shipyard a free choice in the diesel engine element of the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-power-propulsion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2969,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions\/2969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2967"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}