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Order to ABB for the supply of a system of energy management for a new ship of Viking
The cruise ferry it will have an ability to 2.800 passengers and will use which liquified natural gas as fuel
January 26, 2012
Group ABB has adjudicated an order for the supply of a system of energy management for one of the ships ordered from the Viking Line company to the ship yard of STX Finland to Turku that will be completed in 2013. The new one cruise ferry will be along 218 meters, will reach the maximum speed of 22 knots, it will have an ability to 2.800 passengers and will serve the route of connection between Turku and Stockholm.
The ship will be the first fleeting unit of these dimensions to use liquified natural gas as fuel. The Energy system EMMA Management of ABB, that it is part of the offer of automation and control of the Helvetic group for the naval field, will be used for the management of the processes in energetic within and in order to avoid it wastes it of fuel until from the first day of navigation. The scope of supply ABB for Viking Line includes the EMMA software, that it compares and it analyzes the running and historical data of the operations of the ship and calculates and it communicates the possible areas of improvement by means of an interface to display device. The software moreover comprises a system of energy extensive management that models the energetic consumption and calculates the optimal operating conditions so that the ships can operate to the maximum of their efficiency.
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