Dual Ring Bus Electrical Distribution System for US Navy Destroyer- and Frigate-sized Vessels

Abstract

In response to a Request for Information from the Office of Naval Research regarding electrical architectures to be considered in an architecture evaluation study for two candidate hull forms including a 10,000 ton destroyer-sized vessel and a 5,000 ton frigate-sized vessel, the Design Laboratory of the MIT Sea Grant College Program proposes a dual ring bus topology as described in the following.