{"id":7794,"date":"2022-07-21T12:35:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T15:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altus.com.br\/?p=7794"},"modified":"2026-01-21T11:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:31:16","slug":"embarcacoes-hidro-combustiveis-nos-eua-utilizam-tecnologia-xpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altus.com.br\/en\/post\/477\/embarcacoes-hidro-combustiveis-nos-eua-utilizam-tecnologia-xpress","title":{"rendered":"First American hydrogen powered catamaran uses Xpress technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"translation-block\">Responsible for 15% of all cargo transported in the United States in 2021, the waterway mode is an important logistics resource in the country and has constantly invested in technological modernization. Recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allamericanmarine.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">All American Marine<\/a>, a major naval shipyard responsible for building catamarans and ships in Washington region, found in Altus the necessary technology to modernize the automation system of its fleet of boats and develop <u>the first hydrogen-powered catamaran in North America<\/u> and the <b>first in the world<\/b>to operate on a commercial basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Desenvolvido pela <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfmar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bluefin Marine<\/a>, nosso integrador de sistemas na Am\u00e9rica do Norte ligado aos nossos parceiros da <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beijerelectronics.se\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Beijer Electronics<\/a>, o projeto previa a atualiza\u00e7\u00e3o de m\u00faltiplos processos em diferentes partes dos barcos. O principal objetivo do sistema modernizado \u00e9 automatizar os procedimentos de partida e parada de bombas e exaustores a bordo da embarca\u00e7\u00e3o. Por\u00e9m, a aplica\u00e7\u00e3o tamb\u00e9m \u00e9 respons\u00e1vel por monitorar diferentes vari\u00e1veis de opera\u00e7\u00e3o atrav\u00e9s de pontos digitais e anal\u00f3gicos instalados ao longo do barco, coletando dados sobre o estado do ve\u00edculo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Veja mais detalhes ap\u00f3s o v\u00eddeo:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe title=\"Sea Change - The World`s First Commercial Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered Vessel\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2sa5WZO8HYA\" width=\"1255\" height=\"706\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Robustness and high performance with Nexto Xpress PLCs<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Para garantir que essas atividades sejam realizadas conforme o esperado, \u00e9 essencial observar alguns indicadores, incluindo temperatura interna, n\u00edveis de por\u00e3o e tanque, resfriamento de c\u00e9lulas de hidrog\u00eanio, backup, desligamento, status e monitoramento do sistema. Com <b>alta velocidade<\/b> e elevado \u00edndice <strong>de<\/strong><b>confiabilidade<\/b>, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altus.com.br\/en\/serie\/serie-xp\/\">controladores program\u00e1veis Nexto Xpress<\/a> foram a solu\u00e7\u00e3o escolhida para compor o sistema de controle e garantir a operacionalidade desses processos.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"translation-block\">To increase their robustness, Nexto Xpress products also undergo <b>tropicalization<\/b>, an isolation process that each printed circuit board goes through before assembling the product, essential for equipment installed on vessels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Furthermore, all PLCs in the Xpress family comply with Det Norske Veritas safety standards, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altus.com.br\/en\/post\/467\/clps-nexto-xpress-recebem -a-certificacao-dnv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">possessing <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altus.com.br\/en\/post\/467\/clps-nexto-xpress -recebem-a-certificacao-dnv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">DNV certification<\/a>. The equipment in the series is certified in the Type Approval category, which makes it completely ready to be used in marine applications, such as control systems on yachts, cruise vessels, cargo ships and oil and gas platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/approvalfinder.dnv.com\/#search?searchText=Nexto xpress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Click here and check Altus' registration on the DNV website.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">High connectivity architecture&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A arquitetura aplicada conta com cinco <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altus.com.br\/en\/produto\/xp315\/\"><b>XP315<\/b>, um dos <b>CLP IoT Ready da Altus<\/b><\/a>, e uma<a href=\"https:\/\/www.altus.com.br\/en\/serie\/ihm-serie-x2\/\"> IHM de 15\u201d da S\u00e9rie X2<\/a>. Quatro dos controladores est\u00e3o em gabinetes isolados em Centros de Controles de Motores, localizados adjacentes \u00e0 sala da c\u00e9lula de combust\u00edvel e em cada casco. Eles controlam os drivers respons\u00e1veis pelo acionamento das bombas e exaustores de bordo atrav\u00e9s de uma rede <b>CANopen<\/b>. Os controladores tamb\u00e9m coletam dados dos sensores e dispositivos que monitoram as vari\u00e1veis do sistema.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"translation-block\">The fifth PLC, like the HMI, is located on the bridge. Both the controllers in the CCM cabinets and the Xpress on the command bridge are connected to the X2 HMI via an Ethernet network and communicate with it using the <b>OPC UA<\/b> protocol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altus.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/barco-hidro-combustivel-arq_1-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altus.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/barco-hidro-combustivel-arq_1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.altus.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/barco-hidro-combustivel-arq_1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altus.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/barco-hidro-combustivel-arq_1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.altus.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/barco-hidro-combustivel-arq_1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.altus.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/barco-hidro-combustivel-arq_1-12x12.png 12w, https:\/\/www.altus.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/barco-hidro-combustivel-arq_1.png 1043w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Esquema demonstrativo da arquitetura utilizada no projeto.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Versatility and high communication capacity with Nexto Xpress<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Its unique concept of <u>compact design with high density of I\/O points<\/u>allowed the customer to include a controller in each MCC cabinet to control auxiliary loads, eliminating a large number of conductors from the machine room to the bridge, which resulted in a significant <b>cost reduction<\/b> for the project's automation budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"translation-block\"><b>Dave Bechtel<\/b>, co-owner of Bluefin Marine, comments that the <u>communication power of Nexto Xpress<\/u> was one of the differentiators that led to the choice of the PLC as the control solution for the application. \u201cThe diversity of communication interfaces and protocols available in the product is very interesting, it makes it possible to communicate with different smart devices\u201d, says Dave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Another benefit of using <b>Altus IoT ready PLCs <\/b> are savings related to development costs. Because it has built-in analog interfaces, the solution requires low engineering investment for configuration, resulting in a high-performance application with improved economics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div role=\"main\" id=\"formulario-contato-padrao-a804ad2f95a3b909d7af\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/d335luupugsy2.cloudfront.net\/js\/rdstation-forms\/stable\/rdstation-forms.min.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> new RDStationForms('formulario-contato-padrao-a804ad2f95a3b909d7af', 'UA-15650049-1').createForm();<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empresa norte-americana utiliza os CLPs Nexto Xpress para modernizar o sistema de automa\u00e7\u00e3o de sua frota de barcos com c\u00e9lula de combust\u00edvel a hidrog\u00eanio.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[296],"tags":[134,327,803,112,383,1088,117,1032,116],"class_list":["post-7794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cases-de-sucesso","tag-altus","tag-automacao","tag-barco-hidro-combustivel","tag-clp","tag-clp-nexto","tag-hidrogenio-verde","tag-industria-4-0","tag-nexto-xp","tag-tecnologia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altus.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altus.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altus.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altus.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altus.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7794"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.altus.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19696,"href":"https:\/\/www.altus.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794\/revisions\/19696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altus.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altus.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altus.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altus.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}