The three 3,500 m3 Trailing Suction Hopper Dredgers Jan De Nul Group ordered from Keppel Singmarine will be equipped with exhaust gas treatment systems, the company said in its press release.
The design of these vessels is based on the 3,400 m3 TSHD Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca and Sebastiano Caboto, built in 2011, and successfully operating since. The vessels combine a shallow draught with high manoeuvrability, making them very suitable for working in confined areas.
The vessels are in diesel-electric execution: all major drives (thrusters, dredge pump, jet pumps...) are electrically driven, and controlled by means of frequency converters. In this way each system can operate at its optimal speed and power. Power is generated by means of three diesel generator sets; a control system automatically starts and stops the sets depending on the power requirement, and by means of asymmetric load sharing we ensure that the load is optimally distributed over the diesel generator sets. All these measures result in a low fuel oil consumption, which is the best in its class.