Australia: TGPS Engineers Develop New Innovative Propulsion System

A group of engineers have developed a completely new method of propelling a displacement vessel while using only 25% of the energy consumed by a traditional un-shrouded propeller, while still maintaining the same performance. Comprising a series of diesel electric units, strategically located completely INBOARD down both sides of the vessel, the Gamma Propulsion System (TGPS), is easy to build and very easy to retro fit to existing ships.

The Gamma Propulsion System (TGPS) will change the face of water propulsion forever by delivering:

• A proven system, certified as being significantly more efficient.
• A proven system capable of saving at least 75% of propulsion fuel usage
• A proven system that would emit at least 75% less pollutants
• A proven system capable of manoeuvring a displacement vessel in all directions – forward, aft, sideways, spin in its own length and crab – using its power range right up to full thrust.
• A system purpose-designed as the main method of propulsion for freighters, bulk carriers, oil tankers and container ships.

Data collected from controlled testing, and certified by Lloyd’s Register clearly demonstrates that TGPS delivers significant thrust with previously unthinkable efficiency.

This same technology can also be utilised in large transfer pumps for the marine and irrigation industries, emergency flood pumping and the mining industry. Typically, volumes like 3,5,10 or even 20 cumecs can be pumped with these same efficiencies with scaled-up versions of the TGPS pump as tested by Lloyd’s Register.

The TGPS engineers also worked with the technical staff at the Wet-n-Wild water theme park on Australia’s Gold Coast. Their brief was to develop a more efficient circulating pump for the theme park’s Calypso Beach.

The TGPS pump delivered a 12% increase in performance but only used 2.04 kW, some 10.8 times greater efficiency.

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Source: gamma-lhi, May 1, 2012