Yaskawa Environmental Energy / The Switch shines a light on how to produce electricity efficiently on ships. A ship is like a floating city that needs electricity to power its operations and amenities ...

ABB secured orders from shipbuilders in China and South Korea to equip 18 and 12 liquified natural gas (LNG) carriers, respectively, with permanent magnet shaft generator technology. The ships are due ...

Berge Bulk has completed the world's “first” retrofit of a Renk integrated front-end power system (IFPS) shaft generator on its vessel, as part of its decarbonisation efforts. Installed on the Berge ...

WE Tech Solutions (WE Tech), a leading energy efficiency solutions provider in the marine industry, and The Switch, a technology specialist of permanent magnet machines for advanced marine drive ...

The Vaasa-based WE Tech Solutions company has now finished developing the generator it started work on in 2009. The shaft generator can be installed in modern ships, and constitutes a new and unusual ...

A new advance in vibration monitoring, developed with EPRI, facilitates the measurement of torsional vibration and is expected to be of significant value to power plants relying on a wide range of ...

WE Tech Solutions (WE Tech), a leading energy efficiency solution provider, has received an order to deliver its direct-drive permanent magnet (PM) shaft generator solution to a series of two 17500 ...

Mechanical Dynamics and Analysis (MD&A) was retained by a utility to perform a stub-shaft repair of a generator rotor collector-end shaft. The customer reported that the generator rotor had suffered a ...

With coal mining becoming a thing-of-the-past, the world will be left with a lot of empty mine shafts. However, a group of entrepreneurs in the UK has come up with an idea that would breathe life back ...

The alignment of turbine-generator sets poses unique challenges that only the best laser shaft alignment systems can overcome. Not the least of these is the difficulty of turning the shafts (either ...