Wrtsil EnergoProFin Propeller

Image Credit: Wrtsil

The efficiency of the ships propeller is an important part of a ships overall propulsion
efficiency. The Wrtsil EnergoProFin has become a popular retrofit solution to improve the
propulsion efficiency and hence improve the fuel efficiency of many ships already in service.The
Wrtsil EnergoProFin solution, a propeller cap with fins that rotates together with the propeller
to produce fuel savings of up to 5%.

Wrtsil Fixed Pitch Propellers are based on OPTI Design methodology, which ensures optimum
performance and minimum levels of noise and vibration by obtaining acceptable pressure pulses
on the hull to avoid high propeller induced noise and vibration levels. With the effective CFD
calculations analyse not only the propeller performance but most importantly also, the interaction
between the propeller and hull. This provides extremely accurate information to achieve design
and parametric optimisation. The result is a robust propulsion solution covering the full range of
ship operating conditions, and reduced operating costs by using highly efficient hydrodynamic
optimised propeller blades.

Figure 1: Cavitation observations for same propeller with and without EnergoProFin (Image
Credit: Wrtsil)
Wrtsil EnergoProFin serves to improve propulsion performance by weakening the hub vortex.
It is tailored to the specifics of the individual propeller, and can be installed quickly and easily
which is resulting improvements to overall fuel efficiency.

Source: Wrtsil (FIXED PITCH PROPELLER OPTI DESIGN)