Use Of Ship Power For Life Support Of Arctic Facilities

• Main Authors: R.N. Shulga, T. S. Smirnova
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: LLC Center for Information and Legal Support for the Development of the Arctic 2020
• Subjects: nuclear icebreaker; power supply; power plant; dc bus; electricity storage; life support; Geography (General); G1-922; Arctic; Icebreaker; Northern Sea Route
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.24411/2658-4255-2020-00003; https://doaj.org/article/7993cd9dbb7c4a60a1108fc6897d8f79

The considered characteristics of the Northern sea route (NSR), nuclear icebreakers and theirship power engineering show expediency of power supply of coastal consumers with use of ship reactor devices (RU) of type of nuclear power plants of small power (ASMM) that allows to unify and replicate power installations. For the Arctic and the NSR, the use of ASMM, supplemented by a DC bus and the presence of storage devices is an alternative solution in terms of autonomy, reducing the emission of carbon dioxide and nitrogen, lack of maintenance and remote digital control. The alternative options of energy supply stationary and mobile installations of ground, surface, and submarine-based liquefied natural gas (LNG) include the use of aviation gas turbines up to 5 MW, and for sea-based vehicular gas turbines of 30 MW using energy storage devices, the capacity of which depends on the peak power of the consumers. The structure and composition of a mobile modular life support complex (MMCF) as part of an underwater or surface power module with a controlled rectifier, the output of which is connected by a bipolar underwater DC cable to the shore conversion, accumulation and distribution modules, are presented. The outputs of the latter are connected by ground bipolar cables to the inputs of the water and air treatment modules, as well as production and auxiliary modules. The complex with voltage from 1 to 10 kV with power from 1 to 10 MW is created using current and voltage converters, energy storage, switches and DC cables, equipped with digital control devices.the possibility of terminating the transit of reactive power with sufficiently intense geomagnetic disturbances.