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Norwegian firm Grovfjord Mek. Verksted (GMV<\/a>) has selected Volvo Penta and Danfoss Editron to power Ocean Infinity’s fleet of autonomous robot exploration vessels. <\/strong><\/p>\n The so-called \u2018Armada<\/a>\u2019 fleet will consist of two sizes of vessels both of which will be 100 per cent diesel-electric.<\/p>\n Johan Inden<\/strong>, head of the marine segment at Volvo Penta, said:<\/p>\n \u201cVolvo Penta is delighted to be part of this groundbreaking project in cooperation with Danfoss Editron.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cTogether, we will deliver an optimized power solution \u2013 to the autonomous Armada fleet \u2013 designed for ultimate performance while reducing the environmental footprint.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n These fully diesel-electric vessels will get power from Volvo Penta DC gensets and Danfoss DC grid controls. <\/p>\n Danfoss will provide the energy management system and propulsion control for each vessel.<\/p>\n The engines behind the power management will be variable speed gensets from Volvo Penta.<\/p>\n The Volvo Penta D8 MH variable-speed engine will power the marine generator sets on board. <\/p>\n The D8 engine matches the autonomous vessels due to its compact size and high power to weight ratio. <\/p>\n Additionally, the engine\u2019s low fuel consumption plays a big role in the significant CO2 reduction, VP explains.<\/p>\n This fleet of autonomous vessels will provide new opportunities for deep-sea exploration. <\/p>\n Each vessel will be able to launch separate remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs). <\/p>\n These unmanned submarine-like ROVs will reach depths of up to 6000m and carry out surveys on pipeline routes as well as collect vital seismic data. <\/p>\n The first four vessels in the Armada fleet should arrive to Ocean Infinity in 2021, with the remaining robots completed in the next months.<\/p>\n The post Diesel-electric power for the world’s first fleet of robot vessels<\/a> appeared first on Offshore Energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n world maritime news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Norwegian firm Grovfjord Mek. Verksted (GMV) has selected Volvo Penta and Danfoss Editron to power Ocean Infinity’s fleet of autonomous robot exploration vessels. The so-called \u2018Armada\u2019 fleet will consist of two sizes of vessels both of which will be 100 per cent diesel-electric. Johan Inden, head of the marine segment at Volvo Penta, said: \u201cVolvo …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[11797,1973,1099,5446,304,72],"class_list":["post-18545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-dieselelectric","tag-fleet","tag-power","tag-robot","tag-vessels","tag-worlds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/18546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}