WJB Technical Lecture – The Fusion of Electrical Machines and Marine Power Systems using Mesh Networks and “Halo” Machines

WJB Technical Lecture 13th January 2025

Presenter:
Nick Smith has more than 35 years of experience with General Electric’s Marine Solutions and Power Conversion
Business, designing commercial and military marine solutions for UK and US classes such as: Duke, Wave, Albion,
Daring, QE, Zumwalt, Wasp, and Lewis & Clark; alongside many other worldwide ships.

Background:

A power system that you’ve never seen before. Nick will be providing insight
into tomorrow’s technology, promising compelling advantages for future
warships, operators and shipbuilders alike.
Nick will discuss how this rapidly emerging technology could eradicate the
need for main switchboards and drives in future naval electrical power
systems. By simplifying the electrical network, these “Halo” machines and
mesh networks could dramatically reduce network footprint, size and weight,
contributing to network availability and resilience.
These high-power density machines, combined with a potential step change
in signatures, releases redundancy and resilience that has been trapped
inside electrical machines for more than a century. Additionally, solid state
mesh networks, without using separate switchboards facilitates the dynamic
re-routing of electrical power offering, a potentially self-healing and
autonomy-ready network.

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