The first part of this paper will briefly detail the requirement for and the development of a Digital Fuel Control System (DCS) for the Spey SM1C gas turbines fitted in the latest Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN) class of ships the Luchtverdedigings en Commando Fregat (LCF). The middle section will cover the shore trials, customer acceptance demonstrations and first sea trials of the DCS where the correlation between simulation and a real engine was seen to diverge drastically. This section will also detail the SM1C control system, the DCS controls philosophy, signal sampling and Human Machine Interface (HMI). The final part of the paper will deal with the investigations into the problems encountered, the simulation of faults, the validation of the SM1C simulations, outstanding problems and the successful in-service performance of the resulting software modifications.

Volume Subject Area:
Marine
Topics:
Control systems, Simulation, Computer software, Engines, Fuels, Gas turbines, Machinery, Navy, Seas, Ships, Signals
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