Reliable control for every propulsion type on a common platform

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ComAp’s marine range now delivers safe and reliable monitoring, protection, and control for mechanical engines, electronically governed engines, and electric propulsion motors. Purpose-built products unified across one platform.

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Marine propulsion is diversifying quickly. Tightening IMO emissions rules, and DC-bus architectures that combine gen-sets, batteries, fuel cells, and shore power on one vessel, are moving operators away from fixed-speed mechanical engines to electronically governed engines and, increasingly, to variable-speed electric propulsion. Each is controlled differently, and electric propulsion has traditionally required bespoke software on a general-purpose PLC, validated ship by ship.

Safe and reliable control of mechanical and electronic engines
ComAp’s engine supervision system, the InteliDrive 700 Marine, controls both mechanical and electronic internal combustion engines, high-speed and medium-speed. The system is built around cybersecurity, alternative-fuel readiness, communication, and visualisation the crew can use easily.

Preprogrammed applications for propulsion engines ensure quick integration and simple operation, while an extensive PLC editor provides the flexibility to meet project-specific requirements.

Pre-engineered control for electric propulsion
The electric Propulsion Control System (PCS) is ComAp’s newest addition to the marine portfolio, running as an application on the established InteliMains 1010 Marine controller. It delivers embedded, pre-engineered control of variable frequency drives (VFDs) in both AC-bus and DC-bus variants, in place of costly custom-made PLC engineering.

Demand is growing across battery-hybrid ferries, tugs, and offshore support vessels.

PCS provides the functions an integrator would otherwise write from scratch:

flexible speed and torque referencing
controlled start and stop sequencing
breaker control
inbuilt protections
full integration with power management

Because this logic is pre-written and validated, the integrator configures parameters instead of writing new code and taking it through testing and class approval.

Optimised power and load management
Propulsion and thrusters are typically the largest electrical loads on board, so PCS is designed to cooperate with power management rather than operate independently of it. The two exchange real-time data and actual power usage, so the PCS can adjust the propulsion speed reference accordingly, protecting the vessel against overload and blackout. This is the shift electrified vessels increasingly require: from power management, which balances the sources, to load management, which shapes the largest load.

Together, the InteliDrive 700 Marine and the InteliMains 1010 Marine provide a reliable technical solution for every type of marine propulsion: mechanical and electric.

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ComAp is a global leader in smart marine control, delivering advanced propulsion and power management control systems for reliable, efficient and sustainable new-build and retrofit applications.