Marine Electrical Power Systems

Last Update: November 28, 2024

This website is intended to provide resources for those wishing to learn more about marine electrical power systems as well as those instructors tasked with teaching the material. Shipboard power systems differ in significant ways from the more familiar terrestrial power systems; hence this website will focus on topics where these differences are important. Topics of a general nature are not covered; there are many textbooks and websites providing useful material (see below). Much of the material in this website is licensed using the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license to facilitate reuse in producing lecture notes and other documents. Each topic has a list of references (each having their own licenses) for further investigation.

Each topic includes a set of essential questions and the level of thinking that a student should achieve in answering the question. The Levels of Thinking are based on Bloom's taxonomy

This website is a work in progress. It will likely take a number of years to populate all the items adequately with resources. The design of the website is also kept deliberately simple, both to ease maintenance, and to ensure one can easily find desired resources.

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0000 Shipboard Power System Fundamentals

1000 Electric Power Load Analysis

2000 Ship Electrical Distribution System Design

3000 Ship Electrical Power System Analysis

4000 Electric Ship Mobility

5000 Electrical Power Generation, Power Conversion, and Energy Storage

6000 Shipboard Electrical Power System Integration 1

7000 Shipboard Electrical Power System Integration 2

Students should consider mastering the material in the following CUSP Courses

First Course on Electric Power Systems

Introduction to Power Electronics

Electric Machines and Drives

While this website provides many recommendations, class rules and regulations should always be consulted and followed. A thorough analysis should be conducted to ensure recommendations in this website are appropriate for any given application. The examples, data, and other information provided are believed to be correct. However, the examples, data, and other information should be independently verified and tested before using in any design; particularly those where incorrect operation could result in equipment damage or injury to personnel. We make no warranties, express or implied, that the examples, data and other information provided in this website are free of error, that they are consistent with class rules, regulations, or other industry standards, or that they are appropriate for meeting the requirements of any application. The authors expressly disclaim the implied warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any particular purpose. The authors also disclaim all liability for direct, indirect, incidental, or consequential damages that result from any use of the examples, data, or other information in this website.

The following websites are valuable sources of material for power systems in general; this website is intended to build upon their contributions:

CUSP University of Minnesota website providing teaching material for power electronics, electric machines and drives, power systems, and renewable energy

MIT OpenCourseWare Search on Electrical Power

The following websites are valuable sources of material for marine power systems:

Electric Ship Research and Development Consortium

Quick Search ASSIST Repository for military specifications and standards

The initial identification of topics, development of Essential Questions, and identification of references were partially funded by the U.S. Navy (Office of Naval Research, PMS 320, and PMS 460). This support is greatly appreciated.

This work by Norbert Doerry is licensed under CC BY 4.0