Marine Electrical Power Systems:
Shipboard Power System Fundamentals:
Ship Requirements

Last Update: August 18, 2025

Essential Questions

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What are the key requirements that drive size, weight and cost of ship power and propulsion systems?
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How do the key requirements impact power and propulsion system designs?
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How are the key requirements establisheds?
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What is the impact of when the key requirements are established on the power and propulsion system design?
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Ship Requirements

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References

Brown, Dr. Alan J., Design of Marine Engineering Systems in Ship Concept Design, The Marine Engineering Series Edited by Michael G. Parson, SNAME, Alexandria VA, 2020 ISBN 978-1-7923-0964

Doerry, CAPT Norbert, "Zonal Ship Design", presented at the ASNE Reconfiguration and Survivability Symposium, February 16-17, 2005, Atlantic Beach FL.
Also published in ASNE Naval Engineers Journal, Winter 2006, Vol. 118 No 1, pp 39-53.

Doerry, CAPT Norbert H., and Howard Fireman, "Designing All Electric Ships," presented at IMDC 2006, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 16-19 May 2006.

Doerry, CAPT Norbert, "Designing Electrical Power Systems for Survivability and Quality of Service" presented at ASNE DAY 2007, Arlington, VA, June 25-26, 2007.
Also published in ASNE Naval Engineers Journal, 2007, Vol. 119 No 2, pp 25-34.

Doerry, Dr. Norbert H., "Electrical Power System Considerations for Modular, Flexible, and Adaptable Ships," presented at ASNE EMTS 2014, Philadelphia, PA, May 28-29, 2014.

Doerry, Dr. Norbert, "Measuring Diversity in Set-Based Design," Presented at ASNE Day 2015, Arlington VA, March 4, 2015.

Doerry, Dr. Norbert, and Dr. John Amy, Jr., "Key Requirements for Surface Combatant Electrical Power System and Propulsion System Design," presented at Advanced Machinery Technology Symposium, ASNE AMTS, Virtual Conference, October 6-7, 2020.

Doerry, Norbert, Andrew Johnson, Edward Ammeen, and Katherine Beaumont, "Design Activity Modeling, " SNAME Maritime Convention 2022, Houston TX, Sept 27-29, 2022.

McCoy, Timothy J., " Integrated Power Systems - An Outline of Requirements and Functionalities for Ships," in Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 103, no. 12, pp. 2276-2284, Dec. 2015,

DPC 200-1 Calculation of Surface Ship Endurance Fuel Requirements


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