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eotterspoor@mormacmarine.com, via our website smpe.org or via phone at
(201) 821 7075
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Port
Engineers New York,
NY, Inc.
An Organization to develop
cooperative spirit and friendship among members, to be of mutual assistance to
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American Merchant Marine.
The winner of the 2002 Grant was Maine Maritime
Academy. Their proposal was as follows:
MAINE MARITIME ACADEMY
CASTINE, MAINE 04420
207-326-4311
We greatly appreciate the opportunity to apply for a grant through the Society of Marine Port Engineers Marine Engineering Grant Program. Please find enclosed our proposal entitled "New Governor Automation Laboratory Facility," requesting a grant in the amount of $14,600.
The proposed new laboratory is designed to enhance the training of marine engineering students in modern ship's electric power generation automation and control systems. Simulation and hands-on experience in the proposed laboratory will better prepare students to tune, troubleshoot, and operate state-of-the-art power generation control systems.
I will be away on our annual training cruise until May 28. After May 28, I can be reached at (207) 326-2417. In the meantime, if you require further information or have any questions whatsoever, please contact David
Skaves, Engineering Department Chair, at (207) 326-2365 or send e-mail to
Thank you again for this special opportunity.
Steven R. Walk
Assistant Professor, Engineering
Head, Center for Technology Forecasting
New Governor Automation Laboratory
Proposal to The Society of Marine Port Engineers New York, NY Inc. Marine Engineering Grant Program
by Maine Maritime Academy Castine, Maine 04420
Introduction
Continuous change is the paradigm of the ma_4time industry. Globalization restructuring and other evolutionary and revolutionary changes continuously redefine the skills and performance requirements of
maritime engineering program graduates. Perhaps the greatest impact on our students' careers can be seen in the diffusion of technological sophistication in the operation and maintenance systems of ship and port facilities. The substitution of computer-based automation and control systems in place of electromechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic controls defines the future of automation and controls technology for port facility and marine engineers.
Maritime industries expects every employee to contribute to enhancing throughput, reducing costs, and increasing efficiency through the use of quality teams, productivity councils, multi-discipline training and other organizational restructuring. The industry's largest productivity gains have been and will continue to be the result of technological change
through the application of information, electronics, and communications technology in modem automation and controls systems. To continue to compete for the best jobs in the global marketplace, to be perceived and rewarded as highly value adding employees, and to be effective workplace leaders, marine engineering graduates must have a solid education in automation and control, no matter what their career path and no matter what their function in the maritime industry.
It is to stay ahead of the technological change in industry and to prepare our students for new professional challenges that we propose a permanent Governor Automation Laboratory facility to enhance both our Diesel Power and Electric Power Laboratories, within our 5-year plan to expand out
engineering laboratories.
Proposed Governor Automation Laboratory
The purpose of the proposed Governor Automation Laboratory facility is to prepare students in the operation, tuning, and maintenance of modem digital governor systems for large
diesel power plants. The permanent new laboratory will include simulation and hands-on training in modem automated generator speed control technologies. The objective is to deepen the student's knowledge and understanding of
isochronous governors, droop governors, and load setting and load sharing practice and performance, in an integrated teaching platform involving fully rated generation equipment and industry standard digital control systems. In addition to real-time training a test stand will be fabricated to enable governor controls tuning and troubleshooting and observation of governor response under changing generator load, absent the noise and
distraction of the large diesel generator.
The technical specification and schematic diagram for the new laboratory facility are attached. A team of Academy faculty and laboratory
technicians, perhaps assisted by technical consultants, will procure the equipment, construct the laboratory facility, fully test the systems, and develop course content and laboratory exercises for students enrolled in both the electric power and the diesel systems sequences of courses. The first governor automation laboratory is scheduled to be offered to students in Fall 2003. Full operation of the laboratory facility is planned for Spring 2004.
New 5-year Engineering Laboratory Enhancement Program
The proposed Governor Automation Laboratory facility is an integral part of our new 5-year enhancement program for the engineering laboratories. For example, included in the Academy's current $21,000,000 capital campaign is a proposed major ($250,000) expansion of the Electric Power Laboratory. We plan to add significant new training and education equipment in Power Electronics and Automation and Controls, including automated data acquisition systems, programmable logic controllers, and other controls technologies. We plan to enhance the automation and controls experience for students by adding, on an annual basis, new mock industrial simulation workstation trainers, including the proposed Governor Automation Laboratory facility. By adding new simulations annually we intend to complete the expansion of the laboratory a soon as possible, bringing as much of the shipboard and port facility experience to the laboratory as possible, to enhance the education experience for our students.
Present Diesel Power and Electric Power Laboratories
Diesel Power Laboratory
The laboratory includes modem Caterpillar 3512 and E.M.D. 12V567 (each approximately 900 HP) diesel engines that complement the
M.A.K. main and auxiliary engines on the Training Vessel State of Maine. The laboratory facilities include
several smaller diesel engines, fuel injection equipment, a P.M.C. Beta engine monitoring system, and a Magrotech computer-controlled diesel power plant and generator simulator. Recently a PC-based diesel
simulator was added to the laboratory. The laboratory experience includes introduction to static governors, but includes no training in modern generation control systems, such as governor response to load changes and automated load sharing systems.
Electric Power Laboratory
The Electric Power Laboratory includes AC and DC motors, generators, and universal machine with instrumented switchboards, switchgear, transformers, test and measurement equipment, and numerous other electric power components. The lab also contains digital control equipment and complements much of the automation equipment contained on the Training Vessel State of Maine. While students
receive training in manual loading and paralleling of AC generators, there is no apparatus to operate or troubleshoot automated
generation control systems as found on the modern ship.
Benefits
Students will benefit from the simulation and hands-on experience with integrated, industry-grade equipment, giving them excellent
training to operate safely and efficiently shipboard generation control systems. Students will experience first-hand the operation of speed controllers, load sharing controls, and emergency back-up generation switch-over processes, experiences not always available or permitted with ship's systems. The Governor
Automation Laboratory facility can provide a potentially Life-saving training experience for Academy graduates.
The Governor Automation Laboratory facility will be available to our Marine Systems Engineering Students for their 5 year Capstone Design projects. We anticipate students developing and verifying novel control schemes and other projects. We expect that faculty will use the state-of-the-art facility for their own development projects and publish results in academic and industry publications.
Society of Marine Port Engineers Recognition
The Society will receive recognition in many ways. A commemorative plaque
displayed prominently at the facility will provide permanent recognition of the generosity of the Society to all future students and visitors to the Lab. Local and regional press releases will announce to the public the awarding of funds and the opening of the laboratory facility when complete, and include prominently the Society's contribution. As a founding and leading institution of the International Association of Maritime Universities, MMA will publish articles featuring the new facility, our innovations in training techniques, and report student outcomes, again including the Society by name and the importance of its
contribution.
New Governor Automation Laboratory Facility
Technical Specification
Proposal to
Society, of Marine Port Engineers New York, NY, lnc. Marine Engineering Grant Program
by
Maine Maritime Academy Castine, Maine
1. 450 Volt, 3 Bus Bar Panel/Cabinet Cost Estimate: $1200
2. Bassler Solid State Voltage Regulator Cost Estimate: $2500
3. 2301 Woodward Load Sharing/Speed Control Unit Cost Estimate: $3200
4. Generator Circuit Breakers
a. Generator Breaker
i Type GE ACB 1600/2000 hr.
ii. 3P, 500 VAC, 60 Hz
iii. Man., Whipp and Bourne
iv, P/N 4284048-2, Serial No. A 800256
v, Solid State over current trip device
b. Tie Circuit Breaker with Auto Start Device
i. Type GE ACB 1600 hr.
ti. BP, 500 VAC, 60 Hz iii. Whipp and Bourne iv. P/N 4284048-2, Serial No. 06789
Cost Estimate: $2500
4. Panel Meters and Controls
a. Voltmeter - 0-600
b. Frequency Meter - 55.65 cps.
c. Ammeter - 0-600 amps.
d. Wattmeter - 0-1000 KW
e. Kirk lock device, mode selector switch (man/auto and manual
start/auto transfer)
Cost Estimate: $1000
5. Emergency Diesel Generator Shutdown and Alarm Panel with following:
a. Low oil pressure shut down
b. High oil temp. shut down
c. Over speed shut down
d, High water temp. alarm
e. Low star air alarm
f. Auto crank lock out indicator light
Cost Estimate: $1200
6. Woodward Governor and Test Stand
Woodward Governor Type EGCP 2.
Test stand to mount, test, and experiment with the governor.
Cost Estimate: $1800
TOTAL EQUIPMENT COST: $13,400
ESTIMATED TECHNICAL CONSULTING COSTS: $1,200
GRANT REQUEST: $14,600
