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Switchboards for the Giant
of the Offshore
A highly specialized team of Imesa technicians has
followed the realization of the “electric heart” of the catamaran
Pioneering Ship
Pioneering Spirit
ioneering Spirit (ex Pieter projects in the shipbuilding industry and it has an
Schelte) is the giant ship which “electric heart” by Imesa SpA.
was built by the shipyards of The original project dates back more than twenty
Daewoo Shipbuilding in South years ago and since then, there have been
Korea, on behalf of the Swiss various stages of study to identify the best
P group called Allseas. This is one technical solutions for the offshore: the installation
of the most impressive and sophisticated and removal en bloc of large offshore platforms
Switchboards M.V. for Pioneering Spirit
• 78 panels of medium voltage divided in 4 main switchboards
• voltage: 11 kV
• current: 1600 A
• short circuit current: 50 kA
• internal arc: 50 kA
• power: 8 generators of 11 MW
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