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report | microturbine technology “i wake up to a beautiful morning, and want to go for a swim,” he said, “but after a night of running the generators, which are a bit noisy, there’s this terrible ring of oil around the boat.” opening page: capstone turbine corporation’s patented microturbine with air bearing. below: top-down view of the mme 30kw microturbine arrangement, 162 x 92cm (108.5cm height). Siegfried Steiner is a determined man. One day recently, he flew me – piloting the jet himself – to his yacht, Lethantia, the 44m Royal Huisman formerly known as Borkumriff III. Steiner had acquired the schooner in 2007. “I couldn’t afford her, but I had to have her,” he said, as we approached Marina Izola in Slovenia, where she has a permanent berth. “I’ve sailed since I was a boy, and this yacht is just perfect for me.” Perfect except for the annoyance he faced when he ran the generators. Steiner fixated on the issue of the noise and the occasional thin but noticeable slick of oil around the yacht after a night on anchor in a calm bay. “I wake up to a beautiful morning, and want to go for a swim,” he said, “but after a night of running the generators, which are a bit noisy, there’s this terrible ring of oil around the boat.” He speaks like a man addressing a taboo. “How is this possible today? I have to put up with this tractor rumbling inside my boat all night, and when I wake up, it’s ruined the water for my morning swim. No,” he said with gumption, “this is no good. So I found a solution.” Rather than change the oil filters and invest in some earplugs, Steiner found and subsequently modified a piece of Californian engineering that has been hiding in plain sight for years. That he has now applied his technological and sales acumen to persuading the superyacht market that microturbine generators are the future of on-board power may be a game-changing challenge for the superyacht genset market worldwide. Almost all marine vessels have their auxiliary power supplied by diesel generators, technology that has worked effectively for over 100 years. They’re proven, reliable and relatively cheap to buy, fuel and maintain. They are sold by the biggest names in the industry: Caterpillar, Kilo-Pak, Kohler, Mercedes, MTU, Northern Lights, Cummins Onan and others. There have been recent innovations like variable-speed options, which can cycle up or down to set RPMs to provide staged power delivery. New enclosures isolate the sound and vibration to a high degree, and efficiencies have consistently been upgraded. Most superyachts carry at least two generators; larger yachts can carry as many as six. Considering that there are 4,750 superyachts afloat and another 366 in build, diesel gensets are a huge business. 30 THE SUPERYACHT REPORT | ISSUE 146PDF Image | the Superyacht
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