Investigations on active front-end and active filter based LVAC power architectures of diesel electric propulsion system for diving support vessels

This manuscript presents the investigations on three different types of low voltage AC (LVAC) power distribution architectures of diesel-electric propulsion system for diving support vessel (DSV). It focuses on the qualitative analysis of three LVAC power distribution architectures employing: (1) the conventional 12-pulse converter and (2) active front end (AFE) converter and (3) the proposed 6-pulse converter with shunt active filter (SAF). The reliability evaluation of all the three power architectures has been performed to confirm the viability of the proposed architecture. Further a qualitative analysis of all the three different power architectures has also been furnished.