A NEW INTELLIGENT RELIABLE ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLY POWER UNIT FOR SUPER YACHTS

The present paper proposes a new hybrid environmental friendly power unit that is especially suitable for multihull superyachts powering. The unit harvests solar/wind energy using a smart new scheme. The contributions of the new design that we propose may be summarized as follows. The first contribution is the special arrangement and positioning of the solar/wind harvesting systems. The second contribution is an adaptive anticipatory fuzzy logic controller which is responsible for optimal power unit parameters adjustment and power budget management. The merits of the proposed power demonstrated through a case study. We present the full details of applying the proposed power unit design principles to design the power plant for a "quadramaran" superyacht that we call Ganaremos. The analysis of this case study proves that the proposed power unit is reliable, cost-effective, acceptable in terms of size and weight as well as being environmental friendly.