A heat exchange system for use on an engine-powered watercraft includes a liquid cooling system for cooling the engine using a first heat exchanger and a water heating system using a second heat exchanger for heating water. Raw water from an external water source is passed through each heat exchanger. Water used to cool the engine coolant inside the first heat exchanger exits the watercraft. Water heated by the second heat exchanger is passed to either an intake conduit or at least one onboard accessory system for flushing thereof to kill aquatic invasive species. A valve inside the second heat exchanger opens to release heated water when the heated water reaches a temperature of at least 140° F. Heated coolant from the first heat exchanger passes through the second heat exchanger to transfer heat to the water inside the second heat exchanger.

A marine propulsion device has an engine; an exhaust manifold for conveying exhaust gas from the engine; a cooling water jacket on the exhaust manifold, wherein a cooling water passage for conveying cooling water alongside the exhaust manifold is defined between the cooling water jacket and exhaust manifold; and a cooling water sprayer that sprays cooling water into the exhaust manifold. A manually serviceable cooling water strainer configured to strain cooling water supplied from the cooling water passage to the cooling water sprayer. The manually serviceable cooling water strainer can be manually coupled to and manually uncoupled from the marine propulsion device without use of a tool.

An electromotive drive device for a floatable device includes an electric motor operable by means of a separate power supply module with an energy accumulator, an electronic open-loop/closed-loop control unit and a remote control. The electric motor is within a housing connected to a drive propeller, which at least partially is surrounded by a protective device connected to the housing via connecting supports. The housing has an upper housing part and a lower housing part connected to each other by at least one releasable connection. The housing includes an elliptical bow, the end thereof transitioning into an essentially circular diameter with relative dimensions being a sum larger than an end of the housing with a projection opposite the bow. The housing in the lateral area behind the diameter is provided with intake openings for cooling water to flow inward. The cooling water can exit via outlet openings provided in the connecting supports. An operating method for the drive device includes an electronic open-loop/closed-loop control unit with an information processing unit. The drive ensures energetic use of the power supply module by reducing power while considering a travelled distance or travel time of the floatable device.

A drive for a boat includes a housing that is arranged underwater during operation, and that houses an electric motor that drives a propeller. The housing includes a cooling section that includes a coolant duct.

Provided is a synchronous electrical machine that includes a machine housing having a stator and a rotor lodged in the stator, the rotor being separated from the stator by an airgap, and the machine housing dissipating thermal losses generated by the stator. The stator having stacks of laminations and at least one channel extending along a longitudinal direction of the stator and formed in the laminations, two adjacent stacks of laminations being separated by pins or spacers to form an extraction duct connected to the channel, the machine housing further having an extraction opening so that a fluid injected in the air gap at the ends of the stator flows in the extraction duct and in the channel, and is extracted from the machine through the opening to cool the stator and the rotor.

A modular electric propulsion device for ships according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may be easily mounted in a ship after removing an existing engine from the ship because a switch board for power distribution, and an inverter and a motor for power conversion are modularized inside a single casing, and may be installed in a minimum space for installation because a distance between motor rotation shafts may be made close to each other even when two modular electric propulsion devices for ships are mounted in a dual installation manner.

The present invention includes an underwater vehicle power unit and method of operating the same comprising: a fuel and waste stack comprising one or more reactant or fuel storage bladders and one or more waste storage bladders that are volumetrically and gravitationally balanced during operation; a fuel reactor that generates hydrogen; a fuel cell capable of generating an electrical current when exposed to hydrogen; and a controller that controls the flow of fuel into the hydrogen generator, the flow of hydrogen into the fuel cell and the flow of waste from the hydrogen generator, and/or the fuel cell into the one or more waste storage bladders.

A cooling device for a power source for a boat propulsion apparatus includes a cooling water passage. The cooling water passage includes a passage provided in the power source, in which an engine or an electric motor is used as the power source of the boat propulsion apparatus that propels a boat. Water from outside the boat is taken into the cooling water passage as cooling water to cool the power source, and the cooling water after cooling the power source is drained from the cooling water passage. From the cooling water flowing through the cooling water passage, foreign substances having a size that clogs the cooling water passage are removed. The cooling water passage is provided with a filter device which can filter residual foreign substances remaining in the cooling water.

Provided is an energy storage system for a marine vessel. The energy storage system includes a battery pack and a storage container (i) configured for housing the battery pack and other components and (ii) including an electrical interface for electrically coupling the battery pack to the vessel. The energy storage system also includes an air blast cooling system (i) mountable to a first section of the container and (ii) for cooling the battery pack and an air conditioning system configured for cooling the other components.

Disclosed is a fuselage assembly (100) configured to be attached to a mast assembly (50) of a powered hydrofoil watercraft (1). The fuselage assembly (100) comprises a mast assembly fixation section (106) and an outer housing portion (170) which accommodates, in particular surrounds or encases, a propulsion device (200), in particular an impeller (201), and which outer housing portion (170) at least partially limits an outer dimension of a flow channel (161) through which water is transported during operation of the hydrofoil watercraft (1). The outer housing portion (170) comprises an attachment portion (310) on which a tail unit (300), in particular 10 comprising a stabilizing member (301) such as a stabilizing wing (302), is formed or attachable thereto. In addition or alternatively, the propulsion device (200) may be accommodated in the outer housing portion (170) such that a user is prevented from touching the propulsion device (200).