RT emotion

**RT emotion**
Ship data
flag	Malta
Ship type	Harbor tugs
class	ART Tug 80-32
Callsign	9HA3622
home port	Valletta
Owner	RT Emotion Ltd.
Shipping company	Kotug International
Shipyard	Damen Shipyards Hardinxveld
Build number	571715
Keel laying	August 14, 2013
baptism	19th June 2015
Launch	2nd July 2014
takeover	March 30, 2015
Ship dimensions and crew
length	31.95 m ( Lüa ) 30.25 m ( Lpp )
width	12.60 m
Draft	Max. 6.30 m
displacement	598 t
measurement	491 GT / 147 NRZ
Machine system
machine	3 x Caterpillar - diesel engine (type: 3512 C)
Machine ; performance	5,295 kW (7,199 hp)
Top ; speed	13.5 kn (25 km / h)
propeller	3 × Schottel rudder propellers
Others
Classifications	Lloyd's Register
Registration ; numbers	IMO no. 9691369

The RT Emotion is a tug from the Dutch tugboat company Kotug , which, as a rotor tug , has an environmentally friendly hybrid drive.

description

The hull was built at Nauta Shipyard in Gdynia and completed at Damen Shipyards in Hardinxveld . The construction cost around one million euros.

The ART 80-32 tractor is a further development of the 2011 conversion of the RT Adriaan tractor into a hybrid tractor in order to achieve a further reduction in carbon dioxide emissions .

Technical data and equipment

The tractor has a hybrid drive consisting of 18 lithium polymer battery banks from the Canadian manufacturer Corvus, three Caterpiller diesel engines and shaft generators . The 18 accumulators have a capacity of 6.5 kWh (117 kWh) and a bus voltage of 450 V . The three shaft generators can also work as electric motors and each have a nominal output of 500 kW .

It is driven by three Caterpillar -Hauptmaschinen type 3512 C with each 1,765 kW power at 1800 min ^-1 to three Z-Drive Type SRP 3000 FP with 2.3 m diameter.

Two Caterpillar diesel generators are available for power generation: a Caterpillar C18 TA with 450 kW power (575 kVA apparent power ) and a Caterpillar C9 TA with 200 kW power (250 kVA apparent power).

The tug has a bollard pull of around 80 tons.

Web links

Commons : RT Emotion - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Trials tug RT Emotion , National Sleepvaart Museum Maassluis, February 3, 2015.
↑ Kotug's Hybrid Rotortug RT Emotion named in Bremerhaven , press release, Damen Shipyards Group, June 19, 2015.
^ ART Tug 80-32 RT Emotion , Damen Shipyards Group.
↑ http://hochhaus-schiffsbetrieb.jimdo.com/hybridschiffe/

[NSM-1] Trials tug RT Emotion , National Sleepvaart Museum Maassluis, February 3, 2015.

[2] Kotug's Hybrid Rotortug RT Emotion named in Bremerhaven , press release, Damen Shipyards Group, June 19, 2015.

[3] ART Tug 80-32 RT Emotion , Damen Shipyards Group.

[4] ttp://hochhaus-schiffsbetrieb.jimdo.com/hybridschiffe/