Patent ID: 6240867
Filing Date: 2001-06-05
Classification: B63B

Abstract:
A ship, comprising:a plurality of bulkheads separating said ship into various zones which are nominally watertight;a plurality of passageways of standard sizes extending within at least some of said zones, and extending between at least some of said zones and adjacent zones, and between at least some of said zones and the outside of said ship, those of said passageways which extend between zones, or which extend between a zone and the outside of said ship being fitted with watertight fittings;various critical users of cooling, wherein a critical user of said service is one which, if not provided with said one of said cooling, directly and adversely affects a mission of said ship, said critical users being distributed about said zones of said ship;a plurality of chilled fluid producers, each of said chilled fluid producers having dimensions selected to pass through one of said passageways, each of said chilled fluid producers being located in one of said zones, and each of said zones containing at least three of said chilled fluid producers, the number of said chilled fluid producers in each of said zones being at least equal to that number which provides an amount of cooling exceeding the amount of said cooling required by said critical users of the zone in which said chilled fluid providers are located; anda chilled fluid coupling coupled to at least one of said chilled fluid producers within a zone and to at least one of said critical users in said zone, for providing cooling fluid from said chilled fluid producer to said critical user.