Maritime Reporter, June 1993

<BODY> <div> PROPULSION UPDATE Westinghouse Marine Division To Supply Sealift Propulsion System Components Westinghouse's Marine Div. in Sunnyvale, Calif, has made a com- mitted entry into the U.S. Navy's Strategic Sealift propulsion market by positioning itself to supply pro- pulsion components as well as com- plete propulsion systems. Westinghouse officials said the company is making this long-term commitment to meet the future re- quirements of its propulsion cus- tomers by teaming with several of the world's leading marine propul- sion component suppliers and by choosing New Orleans, La., as the site for a new state-of-the-art diesel engine assembly and test facility. "These agreements and the new assembly and test facility position Westinghouse as a high-quality U.S. source for propulsion components and complete propulsion systems, including diesel engines, reduction gears, line shafting and controllable pitch propellers," said Jack Orme, Westinghouse Marine Div. Diesel Propulsion manager. "And these capabilities allow us to help ship- yards be more competitive." Westinghouse has teamed with New Sulzer Diesel Ltd. of Winterthur, Switzerland to market and manufacture low-and medium- speed diesel engines in the U.S., and with Sulzer Escher Wyss of Ravensburg, Germany, for control- lable pitch propellers. Westinghouse will supply reduction gears from its Sunnyvale facility. The agreement with Sulzer Escher Wyss also in- cludes Jorgensen Forge of Seattle, Wash., an experienced source for the forging and machining of shafts, shaftline components and other equipment. Westinghouse is a world-class designer and manufacturer of com- plete ship propulsion systems, and in recent years has been selected by the U.S. Navy to design, develop and produce the next generation of efficient gas turbine engines for navy surface combatant ships, as well as the advanced propulsion systems for its two most recent submarines, the Los Angeles and Seawolf classes. In addition, Westinghouse-built reduc- tion gears drive more than 100 Navy ships, including destroyers and cruisers. The company has designed and manufactured propulsion tur- bines, reduction gear sets, control systems and turbine generator sets for ship electrical service for most of the century. "These systems offer high reli- ability, long intervals between over- hauls and low fuel oil consumption, which translates into low operating costs," said Mr. Orme. "Operators will reduce long-term costs as well when factors such as system reli- ability and operating life are taken into account." Westinghouse plans to manufac- ture major components such as cyl- inder liners, pistons, rods, heads, valves and other equipment for these engines in its Sunnyvale, Calif, fa- cility, and assemble and test the completed diesel engine system at a new 200,000-sq.-ft. diesel marine propulsion assembly and test facil- ity in New Orleans. The new facility is scheduled to become operational in early 1995, in time to meet deliv- ery requirements for new construc- tion Sealift ships. "This facility makes it possible for complete low- and medium-speed diesel engines to be delivered by barge directly to shipyards without the need for extensive disassembly and reassembly," Mr. Orme said. Westinghouse intends to market and manufacture Wyss model. "This new site provides a major ad- vantage to shipyards because it sig- nificantly reduces the number of man hours required to build and deliver a marine diesel engine, which would otherwise be shipped by rail or truck. On a low-speed engine alone, the waterfront facil- ity will save thousands of man hours," in turn providing cost and schedule benefits to customers. For medium-speed diesel engines and gas turbine applications, Westinghouse will supply reduction gears, shafting and controllable pitch propellers. Westinghouse has an 80-year history in marine reduc- tion gear manufacturing. The com- pany has off-the-shelf designs for double-input medium-speed diesel reduction gears and a single input LM2500 gas turbine reduction gear; more than 125 Westinghouse re- duction gears for LM2500's are in controllable pitch propellers such as this Escher service or have been delivered. To complete the package, Westinghouse announced in Febru- ary an agreement with Sulzer Escher Wyss for Westinghouse to market and manufacture large, high-horse- power controllable pitch propellers in the U.S. for Sealift and other Navy ships. Sulzer Escher Wyss is a lead- ing designer of controllable pitch propellers, with more than 1,800 Escher Wyss propellers in service worldwide, including a 46,000 horse- power controllable pitch propeller. Westinghouse/Escher Wyss con- trollable pitch propellers will be ca- pable of propelling ships up to 50,000 hp per propeller shaft. For more information on Westinghouse marine products and services, Circle 10 on Reader Service Card BBC Turbochargers Renamed ABB Turbochargers Five years ago Brown Boveri & Co. Ltd. (BBC) of Switzerland merged with Asea of Sweden to form ABB Asea Brown Boveri, a new group comprised of some 1,300 indi- vidual companies. The former BBC turbocharger department became ABB Turbo Sys- tems Ltd., while its product retained the name BBC Turbocharger due to the worldwide reputation it had gained since being launched 65 years G&rliGr As of spring 1993, BBC Turbo- chargers will be named ABB Turbo- chargers, as the company has deemed the market has had suffi- cient time to get used to the name ABB. As an expression of Group corpo- rate identity, ABB Turbo Systems' complete product range will be mar- keted as ABB products. For more information on ABB Turbo Systems Ltd. products and services, Circle 60 on Reader Service Card Ingalls Launches Third Aegis Destroyer DDG 57, the third U.S. Navy Ae- gis guided missile destroyer to be built by Ingalls Shipbuilding divi- sion of Litton in Pascagoula, Miss., was launched in May in preparation for a christening at Ingalls later in the month. The vessel was chris- tened "Mitscher." Ingalls-built Mitscher New L.A. Coal Terminal Built For Japanese Exports An agreement has been signed between U.S. and Japanese compa- nies to build a new coal loading ter- minal in the Port of Los Angeles in anticipation of U.S. coal exports to Japan. The U.S. will have a 51 percent stake in the project to ship approxi- mately 10 million tons of Utah and Colorado coal to Japan through the new terminal each year. The remaining 49 percent of the agreement will consist of several Japanese corporations, along with the Bank of Japan, who will import the coal for power generation. According to industry sources, a major motivation for the agreement was to help ease friction between both countries over their longstanding trade imbalance. The Japanese currently import coal from China and Australia, but are interested in diversifying their sources. 130 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News </div> <span id="lblContents"></span> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.digitalwavepublishing.com/" title="Digital Magazine">Digital Wave Publishing</a> </BODY>