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Celebrity SolsticeCelebrity SolsticeThe Celebrity Solstice is the first newbuilding in nearly seven years for Celebrity Cruises, the premium arm of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. She also is the years most anticipated new ship introduction, due to her completely new design platform that includes myriad technical innova-tions and cutting-edge public rooms. What makes her debut even more intriguing, RCCL has ordered four more sisters for an entire class of ship, before gaining any operational experience with the prototype. To get a first-hand look at how the new ship is designed, Cruise Business Review Editor TEIJO NIEMELA went aboard to investigate.

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While the introduction of the next class of ship for Celebrity Cruises has taken nearly seven years since the delivery of the last Millennium-class ship, the gts Constellation, the company has in that time made a substantial step up in size. At 122,000 gross tons, the Celebrity Solstice is nearly 40% larger than its four-unit-strong Millennium-class, and with the excep-tion of Cunard Lines rms Queen Mary 2, dwarfs her like-styled competition in the premium market.

The Celebrity Solstice clearly breaks the mold on both the technical side and in terms of her interior design and layout. She is the first ship designed in accordance with probablistic stability rules (SOLAS 2010) and employs a host of new energy-saving technologies, coupled with the latest, most hydrodynamic hull designs. The ship of-fers a sense of space with the 12-deck-tall Grand Foyer, which features a total of eight panoramic elevators and multiple-deck-high spaces, from the elegant shopping street to the clean and crisp dining room. One of most hyped innovations is the Lawn Club on the top deck with real grass and a glass blowing show, but its hype that delivers.

Celebrity Cruises has four more sister ships on order; the next, the ms Celebrity Equinox, is scheduled for de-livery in summer 2009, and the rest will be rolled out in subsequent years, with the fifth and final instalment in 2012. The Celebrity Solstice unmistakably demonstrates the strategy of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. that bigger is better, both from the shareholders standpoint and from a passengers perspective as well. For shareholders (and of course this includes the cruise line itself), a larger ship is more efficient to operate with better revenue po-tential. For passengers, the Celebrity Solstice offers more choices, freedom and a better variety of cabin accom-modations. Of the latter Celebrity has clearly excelled in its new design.

On the other hand, the space ratio on this ship is de-monstrably less than her premium-level competitors. The double occupancy for the Solstice is 2,850 passengers, which translates to a space ratio of 42.8, clearly lower than onboard the Millennium-class. Nevertheless, the Celebrity Solstice provides comfortable surroundings whether cruising on standard 7-night voyages from Port Everglades or conducting 10- and 11-night voyages in the Mediterranean. Therefore, I would not be surprised if Celebrity Cruises should choose the same strategy as Princess Cruises has done, which is to deploy its post-Panamax ships on itineraries spanning the globe.

Size-wise there are many firsts

While, as noted above, the Celebrity Solstice is not com-parable to Cunards Queen Mary 2, she will be judged favourably, I think when compared to other new ships of similar size. She is slightly smaller, for instance, than MSCs two new sisters the ms MSC Fantasia and ms MSC Splendida which enter the fleet of MSC Cruises this and next year, respectively. Although RCCL always plays down the fact that it builds the largest ships in the industry, the company showcases the many benefits of more real estate, at least as its applied to cruise vessels, and puts that real estate to good use. While touring the Celebrity Solstice just before her departure from Meyer Werft in Papenburg, Germany, RCCL Chairman and CEO Richard Fain noted that there are more benefits that result from an increase in the ships beam rather than its length.

The choice of the shipyard was fortuitous. Meyer Werft had built five previous ships for Celebrity Cruises from the first, the ms Horizon, until the ms Mercury in 1997. It subsequently constructed four Panamax-size, Radiance-class ships for sister brand Royal Caribbean International. For Meyer Werft, welcoming back its old customer was gratifying but still, the project posed challenges, many W


of which were related to the Solstices size, which was bigger than anything the shipyard had ever constructed before.

Beginning with the design and construction of the Century-class, Celebrity Cruises has employed a number of different interior designers for each project, rather than just choosing one as is the case with many other cruise brands in the industry. In this respect, the Celebrity Solstice is again a departure from the ordinary: For many designers, the Solstice was the first ever project theyd worked on that actually floated, as opposed to resting securely on land.

New layout some familiar tweaks

From the moment you first see her, the Celebrity Solstice looks strikingly different. Her most significant feature is the two-funnel concept, which we have seen before on Disney ships (on the Disney ships, the first funnel serving as a purely cosmetic feature). In this case, the Solstices two funnel stacks are smaller and are located further aft, thus freeing up extra space for the deck area. Also and interestingly, instead of placing Celebritys X emblem on the funnel, as is common on cruise ships today, the logo is actually located on six levels of cabin balcony panels. However, X-logo was added the one of the funnel at a last minute.

While the ship is more than 36 meters wide, the su-perstructure is narrower, enabling more decks of balco-nied cabins. There is also the famous hump pioneered on sister cruise line Royal Caribbeans Voyager, Freedom and Radiance-class ships; this design strategy allows for a Grand Foyer venue, with panoramic elevators without requiring an elimination of cabins. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are no panoramic elevators facing the seas, as they do onboard the Millennium- and Radiance-class ships. Then, various functions, such as Online@ce-lebrity, the library and the card room have been located on various levels of atrium. As the atrium ends to the huge glass ceiling, there are interestingly enough daylight pro-vided to all the decks.

The Celebrity Solstice features a terraced stern that reminds me of the look of the ms Sally Albatross, which gives the Solstice a very attractive, yacht-like look in-stead of a boxy, apartment-like profile that is the case with many other contemporary ships. Building to post-Panamax specifications (and therefore creating a ship wider than Panamax size), also allowed Celebrity to be more generous with the room height on the top decks, as is the case with the Sky Observation Lounge forward of Deck 14 and the Solarium, with a glass roof (its almost 2.5 decks high) located perhaps higher than aboard any other ship. As a matter of fact, the glass ceilings over the bridge area give the Solstice a charming profile sugges-tive of a wedding cake. Another great example of gener-ous space allocation is the Sun Deck area overlooking the pools on the Lido Deck 13 (or 14), where sun chairs have adequate space on both sides of the jogging track.

Indoors, those familiar with prior classes of Celebrity ships will notice a great many changes with regard to the layout. Opting for only two main staircases and elevator lobbies instead of three is a bold move (and a controver-sial one among Celebritys passionate past passengers). RCCL Chairman and CEO Fain has an explanation for this: To have just two staircases eases passenger orientation and provides easier and better traffic flow. And since we have moved the main dining room from aft to amidships, there is even less need for a third bank of elevators or stairway lobby. However, during the peak times, of which the life boat drill is one, the stairway lobbies comes too congested.

There are 13 passenger decks (excluding Deck 2 with its tender station and hospital) aboard the Celebrity Solstice. Most of the cabins are located on decks 6 to 11, but there are also cabins amidships of Deck 3 (between

the lowest level of the Solstice Theater and first-deck en-try to the Grand Epernay Dining Room and Grand Foyer). Additionally, cabins with balconies occupy about one third of the aft space of Resort Deck 12, which amidships and forward houses the pool area and spa. Therefore, to go from the pool area to the Oceanview Caf, passengers must take the stairs up a deck. This arrangement is a re-sult of easing the piping to the top deck cabins as the lido caf was not in their way.

Overall the layout of public rooms on Promenade Deck 4 and Entertainment Deck 5 follows the customary, basic principles of cruise ship design: The theatre is located forward and dining areas are aft, with bars, lounges, ca-sino and shopping area placed in-between amidships. If you take the Promenade Deck 4 (outdoor promenade with life boat stations actually located a deck above) as an example, the space from the theatre forward to-wards the dining room is quite generous. The Shops on the Boulevard and the Fortunes Casino are strategically located, but arent flashy and garish. In fact theyre rather easy on the eyes.

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There are a total of 16 different shops around the ship, most of them located on Deck 4.

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Royal Caribbean International-brand ships since the intro-duction of the Sovereign-class, and it is implemented for the first time ever on a Celebrity ship. According to RCCLs Fain, this arrangement provides better service from the galley to the guests, though it did not come without sacri-fice: Eliminated is the traditional two-deck-high glass wall overlooking the ships wake.

The ships single main dining room is called the Grand Epernay, and it is very contemporary in design. Celebrity Cruises continues to serve dinner in a traditional ar-rangement with first and second seatings, and the Grand Epernay is designed to accommodate all the ships passen-gers. The highlight of the Grand Epernay is a distinctive and dramatic two-story-high glass wine tower.

A clear innovation on the Solstice is that she takes spe-cialty dining to a whole new level for Celebrity. There are a total of 10 different dining venues, of which five are specialty restaurants all charging extra from $5 to $30 per customer. These five venues are clustered together at the ships aft on Entertainment Deck 5 and are connected by two elegant bars, namely the Ensemble Lounge and Michaels Club, that serve as pre- and after-dinner drink venues.

The largest of the alternative restaurants is the Tuscan Grille, which combines Italian and steakhouse cui-sine. According to Celebrity President and CEO Dan Hanrahan, presenting these choices on one menu was a no brainer, as these two not necessarily similar and yet not necessarily dissimilar approaches are quite popular among American customers. The entrance is an archway reminiscent of a fine Napa Valley wine cellar, and its got the ships best possible outside view (floor -to-ceiling win-dows overlooking the ships wake).

Exotic Asia is the theme of Solstices contemporary, yet casual specialty restaurant called Silk Harvest. The menu serves a fusion of hot and cold, spicy and mild Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese and Chinese selections. Blu, catering to the ships spa-oriented passengers, spotlights Mediterranean-influenced dishes.

Easily the most elegant of the specialty restaurants is the Murano, which was first introduced on the ms Celebrity Century. Murano presents a blend of classic and modern Continental cuisine. The warm, elegant restaurant features floor-to-ceiling windows that are complemented by fine Riedel stemware, exquisite bone china and gleaming sil-verware. The wine cellar offers options from around the world, with a focus on boutique-style and limited-produc-tion vintages.

Among the standouts of the ships more pedestrian ea-teries is Bistro on Five, a brand new concept for Celebrity. Located portside off the Grand Foyer, this is one of the ships casual eateries and mainly serves savory and sweet crepes along with panini sandwiches; it is open 21 hours a day. The ships Oceanview Caf and Grill, in essence her buffet venue, also is outstanding in its innovation and design. Embodying the chic atmosphere of a marketplace, the Oceanview is the first lido caf on a Celebrity vessel that has replaced the cafeteria-style counter with a free-flow arrangement. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, W

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this venue offers outdoor seating for dining al fresco. Inside, during evening hours, a special section features tables draped with linen tablecloths for yet another cas-ual dining option. One area of the caf is open around-the-clock.

Stunning public roomsThere are several new public rooms and concepts. While some Celebrity mainstays were re-introduced with new touches, generally speaking, the Solstice represents a de-parture away from the large secondary lounge type of rooms and a move toward more intimate and thematic public areas.

Among these new venues is Cellar Masters, a sophis-ticated wine bar inspired by the deep tones of a win-ery during a summer sunset. The Riedel wine glass tast-ing program, introduced throughout the Celebrity fleet in 2007, is featured here. Another new addition is the Ensemble Lounge, a cocktail bar, which receives most of its crowd from the specialty restaurants for pre- or after-dinner drinks. The Passport Bar, decorated in the style of an elegant yachts interior with warm tones of walnut and zebra wood, is the first bar on a Celebrity ship to be located on the lowest level of the lobby. Its fitted with a dance floor, but it remains to be seen whether it really will be used for this purpose, since the location is rather odd. However, the feeling of lowest level of Grand Foyer is very chic, and reminds like a trendy boutique hotel.

Quasar, a nightclub inspired by the futuristic styles of the 1960s and 1970s, is strategically located on Deck 4 ad-jacent to the smaller, two-deck atrium, and it successfully transports disco dancers from upstairs to downstairs with its cozy, windowless and stark ambience. The upper-deck Sky Observation Lounge, with its huge interior and high ceilings, is by far the most stunning observation room to be found on any cruise vessel to date. Its another night club with live band and a dance floor.

Among the venues that will be familiar to past Celebrity guests include the Martini Bar, no doubt inspired by its namesake on Celebritys Century (which was redone in its present form during that ships major revitalization in 2006). Like the Martini Bar on the Century, it features a frosted bar counter with a chilled surface. New on the W

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Solstice is Crush, a small alcove featuring an ice-filled table where guests can participate in caviar and vodka tastings. Other public areas carried over from previous Celebrity ships at least in name are the Fortunes Casino and Michaels Club.

Among the largest public rooms onboard, the 1,115-seat Solstice Theatre largely occupies the forward part of Decks 3 through 5. One of the most interesting features is a rounded stage that juts nearly 20 feet beyond the proscenium arch.

Redefining the resort areas

The Lawn Club on Deck 15 offers something that has never been seen on a cruise ship: A half-acre of real grass provides a new outdoor option for passengers who wish to engage in such leisurely pastimes as bocce ball or golf putting, or to enjoy a picnic lunch a truly novel idea. As an added attraction, The Lawn Club also is the location for The Hot Glass Show, another industry first when it comes to entertainment and enrichment options.

Creating The Lawn Club did not come easily. It required a lot of effort from landscaping architects, scientists, and others to find the right kind of grass that could be suc-cessfully cultivated at sea. Agrostis Stolonifera (Creeping Bent) was chosen to withstand the various climates that occur where the Celebrity Solstice is being deployed. At press time, when the Solstice was on only her third revenue cruise, there was unfortunately some wear and tear to be seen, although the ship carries a professional groundskeeper hired just to take care of the lawn.

Meanwhile, the pool area on Resort Deck is one of the most sophisticated to be found on a cruise ship. There are two pools and four hot tubs and dancing fountains. A multitude of lounge chairs are strategically placed in the shade, and shaded areas are provided even on the top deck. The Solarium another mainstay aboard the ships of Celebrity Cruises offers a very clean and airy design. While the Millennium-class ships are equipped with tha-lassotherapy pools, Celebrity opted to have just a normal swimming pool on the Solstice. The Solarium is part of the large AquaSpa complex, and it offers spa-goers a caf for healthy dining.

Larger cabins with new design features

In planning the Solstice, Celebrity said it wanted to rede-fine cruise ship cabins. To achieve this, the line brought in fresh sets of eyes, or more specifically, five women with different cruising backgrounds (women are the primary cruise planners as well as the most discerning guests when it comes to cabins, according to Celebrity) to serve as consultants. At the conclusion of a four-month proc-ess led by an innovation consultancy firm, the women had come up with a vision of their own, citing a sense of openness, personalization and intuition as key inspi-rations. Their recommendations such as employing a softer color palette were incorporated into the ships final design.

As a result, the Celebrity Solstice not only accommo-dates more passengers than the Millennium-class, but also

offers more versatile cabins and suites with many new design features. Out of 1,426 passenger cabins, 1,286 have an ocean view and more than 1,200 of these are fitted with private balconies. The Solstices standard bal-cony cabins are 15% larger than comparable accommo-dations aboard other ships in the fleet. Space has been gained in part by employing a curved cabin wall design (similar to those planned for NCLs new F3 newbuilding) that emphasizes a floor plan with more efficient space utilization.

In what Celebrity claims is an industry first, the Solstice features an adjoining stateroom design with a double set of doors, allowing guests to open up space for families traveling together or to close the doors for a more private environment. This arrangement, or vestibule as it is also called, provides better soundproofing between the cab-ins than the traditional connecting doors arrangement. Families traveling in the same cabin can also benefit from the trundle beds that emerge from underneath the couch in place of more traditional Pullman beds on the walls. Veranda which are deeper than those on Celebritys Millennium-class ships can be opened up to create a single balcony space spanning multiple cabins. At the same time, the frosted glass dividers offer both light and privacy when closed.

Following the trend pioneered by Costa Crociere, the Solstice is the first Celebrity ship to feature dedicated spa-class cabins. These 130 cabins belong to the new AquaClass category and are located close to the AquaSpa itself. Their occupants have unlimited access to the spas relaxation room and the Persian Garden (an aromather-apy and steam room), as well as exclusive access to the aforementioned Blu.

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The Celebrity Solstice, with a gross ton-nage of 122,000, is Celebrity Cruises first post-100,000 gross ton vessel, and the first newbuilding for the line since the 90,280 gross ton ms Constellation, the fourth gas-turbine powered Millennium-class vessel, built in France in 2002. Cruise Business Review looks into the many new technologies incor-porated into her groundbreaking tech-nical design.

By Henrik Segercrantz

The Celebrity Solstice was designed during a period of steeply rising fuel costs and increased awareness of global warming, which is reflected in all aspects of her technical design. No one could have foreseen that fuel costs would fall by half during the last few months before her delivery, resulting in further energy savings for her owner. The Celebrity Solstice is designed to be the most energy-efficient cruise ship on the market, and no efforts have been spared in reaching this goal. According

to the builder of the vessel, Meyer Werft, a total energy savings of 30% compared to previous ships has been achieved by highly energy-efficient components such as a photovoltaic system, optimised hydrodynamics, an ex-tremely efficient underwater coating and energy-saving lighting system using LEDs. The cruise ship is the biggest vessel ever built in Germany.

At a media gathering in Weybridge, UK, Harri Kulovaara, Royal Caribbeans Executive Vice President Maritime & Newbuilding, noted that the design work on the Celebrity Solstice had already started some four and a half years ago. He also pointed out that this is the first cruise ship designed and built to IMO SOLAS probabil-istic damage stability regulations, and that the vessel is very much setting the standard for interpreting the regu-lations for upcoming vessels. We really believe that the new regulations are a step forward. They provide greater flexibility in the design of the ship for increased safety, he said. In addition to the owner and Meyer Werft, many others participated in the technical design and design reviews of the vessel, including Det Norske Veritas, the classification society; the Bahamas Maritime Authority, the flag-state authority; and many consultants, including Deltamarin, Safety At Sea, and Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (Marin) plus the numerous suppliers of the new technologies and solutions applied onboard.

John Krousouloudis, Senior Vice President, Marine Operations at Celebrity Cruises and Azamara Cruises, pointed out that this vessel, some 40% larger than the Millennium-class ships (in passenger numbers), sets a new standard for the cruise market, pointing out also the

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energy conservation features of the vessel. A lot of ef-forts have been put into the efficiency of the ship. We are talking about a 25% improvement per guest compared to previous ships in our company. The key areas of focus are hull design and propulsion, power generation, air condi-tioning, lighting and general services, and we believe that in these areas, the ship is really energy saving, he said.

The company utilized brain-storming sessions and charged several working groups with the task of finding the most efficient solutions for the vessel. Krousouloudis also noted that the maximum propulsion power is about the same as on the Millennium-class ships, although this ship is much larger. The ship was merrily doing 25 knots in 6 Beaufort wind, which is a little bit more than our previous vessels did, Kulovaara said. The Radiance-class ships were doing about 25 knots in Beaufort 8 wind.

Celebrity Solstice technical features

HULL AND PROPULSION EFFICIENCY More than 90 model tests were done over a period of 18 months on the vessel in order to reduce resistance and improve fuel efficiency. Many of the tests were also done to confirm the results of damage stability calculations. Clear improvements resulted from the work done on the vessels hydrodynamics. This was done by the yard and owner together with Marin and Deltamarin as consult-ants. Special studies were carried out, including potential and viscous computational fluid dynamics analysis as well as model basin tests. Studies were made to achieve the best placing of the Azipod propulsion units.

New features include an extended bulb configuration and also an integrated extended duck-tail, resulting in a sleeker hull form for less resistance. Another develop-ment was to install an interceptor plate along the tran-som, based on an idea by Deltamarin. Calculations for the interceptor plates were done by Deltamarins alliance partner Safety at Sea Ltd., and model tests for the project were conducted at Marin. A wedge-shaped interceptor was shown to provide the greatest power reduction.

In the construction stage, the hull welds were grinded in critical areas to minimize turbulent resistance, thus increasing flow around the hull. The most recent and ef-ficient silicone-based biocide Intersleek 900 foul release paint from International Paint was used to provide a slip-pery low-friction surface. According to Krousouloudis, the new hull paint really helps to move the dry-dock interval to five years. Five-bladed Azipod propellers were used to reduce the induced forces and thus hull vibrations.

POWER GENERATION Differing from many other re-cent big cruise ships, the Celebrity Solstice has only four main diesel-generators, instead of five or six. The vessels power generation is handled by four Wrtsil 16V46CR diesel engines, each rated at 16,800kW at 514rpm, ar-ranged in a power-plant configuration supplying all the propulsion and electrical power needs onboard. The total power is 67,200kW. This is the first cruise ship in the Royal Caribbean International/Celebrity Cruises fleet with common rail fuel injection. It allows the en-gine to work optimally also at reduced loads, resulting in increased fuel efficiency and fewer emissions with no visible smoke, which meets international regulations for air emissions. The diesel engines are arranged in two re-dundant machinery spaces.

The Celebrity Solstice also represents the first cruise ship fitted with Wrtsils new module-based automa-tion control system UNIC. The earlier WEGS system was specifically designed for each application, whereas the UNIC system, short for Unified Controls, is based on a selection of application-based modules built on a unified embedded platform. The UNIC C3 version is used here, providing control of basic engine safety, engine control

and monitoring as well as engine combustion control. The control system is bus-based to provide scalability, and has a common interface with vessel integrated automation systems for engines, pipe modules, feeder boosters and other related machinery equipment. It provides real-time diagnostics for trouble-shooting and accurate time-stamp-ing for cause and effect analysis.

This is the first time Wrtsils main engines have been applied on a cruise ship at Meyer Werft. Wrtsils engines are used on the Celebrity Solstice and her sister ships to come: the Celebrity Equinox and Celebrity Eclipse. However, MAN engines have been selected for last two, still yet-to-be-named units. The four diesel engines are each driving an ABB main generator, providing electric power of 19,3MVA, 11kV, 1014A at 514rpm. ABB also sup-plied the two 11kV main switchboards, one aft and one forward, four 3500kVA engine room supply transformers, two 1800kVA emergency switchboard supply transform-ers, six 2750kVA deck substation transformers and two 1600kVA galley substation transformers, all of Resibloc-type.

PROPULSION The Celebrity Solstices propulsion is provided by a pair of ABBs 20,5MW Azipod units running at 137rpm. The 5-bladed propellers have a diameter of 5.8 meters. The V23-type Azipod units are the most powerful units to date.

ABB has supplied four ACS6000 medium-voltage pod drives, each rated at 10.5MVA, providing 21MVA per mo-tor and propeller. The Celebrity Solstice is the first cruise ship where Voltage Source Inverter (VSI) -type propulsion frequency converters are used. Due to the drives high-power 11MVA inverter unit, the ACS6000 only needs one inverter unit, which results in a very compact size that saves engine room space. A main benefit of VSI is also its improved efficiency. The power factor (cosphi), which for cyclo converters is some 0.75 (varies with loading), is a practically constant 0.95 over the whole operational speed range. At full load, it exceeds 0.95 resulting in an ef-ficiency (of the electrical distribution) greater than 98.5%. The ACS6000 type converter uses the IGCT (Integrated Gate Commutated Thyristor) power semiconductor switching device resulting in a less complex and more efficient design. The low losses of IGCT result in less re-quired cooling capacity, and its fast switching enables the implementation of unique control algorithms. IGCTs al-low the use of a fuseless main circuitry.

Two VSI-type frequency converters, using ABBs Direct Torque Control (DTC), drive the synchronous brushless electric motor of each Azipod unit. The system is redun-dant, using two circuits per Azipod unit, each providing half of the power, as the 3-phase motors have two wind-ings. A design requirement for the configuration was to build in a high level of redundancy and fault integrity: Even with a single failure in any of the four frequency converters, 75% of the propulsion capacity remains. The

The vessel has two Azipod units, each with a power of 20.5MW. Five-bladed propellers are used to reduce the induced vibrations. In order to reduce the resistance, the ship has an integrated extended duck-tail fitted with a newly developed wedge shaped interceptor.

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315 m long, 37 m wide, 13 decks. There are a lot of impressive numbers connected to "Celebrity Solstice", the largestcruise-ship ever to leave Papenburg's dockyards. It has, for example, 1275 passenger cabins. Why we know that? Well, because we made the lights for every single one of them. Not to mention the hallways. And the lounges. And the restaurants. For the "Blue restaurant" we did the ceiling light you see on the left 900 mm high with a diameter of 1200 mm. 7000 blue and white crystals have been placed onto 4 seperate rings. Another impressiveceiling light illuminates the "Ensemble lounge" a stylized ship's hull, 1800 mm long, 600 mm wide, leaf-gildedand covered with 1200 crystals of 3 different sizes. The largest light on the ship is the "Wave", spanning 12800 mm in length and covered with 7000 crystals.

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DTC-VSI converters have their own internal drive con-troller. They provide a 24-pulse drive system towards the network, and have diode rectifiers in the line side, which guarantees the practically constant high power factor. The supply voltage is 2 x 1750V, the out voltage is 0-3050V. In all, there are four 11,8MVA (3 winding) Midel-liquid immersed type propulsion supply transformers and two 1300kVA auxiliary transformers of Resibloc type. ABB also supplied the control system for the pods. During an eight-day trial in the North Sea under full-load operation, various redundancy tests as well as crash stops were suc-cessfully tested.

TRANSVERSE TUNNEL THRUSTERS Wrtsil has also supplied three (Lips) transverse bow thrusters, of type CT/FT300 with a propeller diameter of 3,000 mil-limeters. ABB supplied the electrical tunnel thruster mo-tors, each rated at 3,000kW at 713rpm, sharing the two switchboards for redundancy.

AUXILIARY SYSTEMS The heat recovery systems onboard are extensively optimised, with heat captured where possible to save energy. The vessel has two verti-cal shell type boilers of type KLN/VIC-12/7 supplied by Saacke Marine Systems. Each diesel engine of the vessel is equipped with an exhaust gas water tube boiler type KIP/PC-3/7 also supplied by Saacke. There are two Mitsubishi S16R-type emergency generators.

IMO SOLAS PROBABILISTIC DESIGN A great deal of effort was put into implementing the IMOs SOLAS probabilistic damage stability rules into the de-sign of the Celebrity Solstice. Some two years of work has resulted in a clearly more efficient design than if the SOLAS 90 rules would have been applied. The vessel has altogether 18 watertight compartments, and a damage stability index which is much higher than the required index 0.88. For example, according to Markku Kanerva, Director of Marketing and Sales at Deltamarin, the B/5 regulation in SOLAS 90 led to unnecessary subdividing of tanks. The vessel could now be optimized much more efficiently. Safety at Sea Ltd. did the safety analysis for the most critical damage cases. In addition, the 500 most common damage cases were picked from IMOs statisti-cal files and recalculated for the vessel, he told CBR. Risk assessment and sufficient system redundancy was assured by checking the implication of failures due to flooding of each compartment of the vessel, using a 3D digital mock-up for all safety-critical spaces. This work was done by Deltamarin.

FIRE SAFETY TECHNOLOGY Autronica Fire and Security AS supplied the AutroSafe fire-detection sys-tem and the ISEMS Integrated Safety and Emergency Management system. AutroMaster 5000 is a complete solution for presentation of control and monitoring of fire-safety systems. It includes EMS (Emergency Shutdown System), DSS (Decision Support System, Solas 24-4) and the ISEMS. The fire-detection system AutroSafe is net-work distributed, with the information routed to panels throughout the system on a network. With fully function-al panels and controllers, detector loops can be placed around the network, reducing cabling costs of return cable-runs back to a central alarm system. The fire-detec-tion system supplied consists of six main fire detection centrals and three AutroMaster 5000 presentation systems for 5,800 addresses, detectors and manual call-points. The presentation of fire doors and watertight doors are also included. The Fire Management System, AutroMaster 5000, gives a proper overview in a fire situation that can be controlled if it is caught early in its development. The sys-tem gathers fire and system information from distributed sources and presents it in a clear and logical way using General Arrangement drawings, icons and text, giving control of the fire-safety systems.

The vessel is equipped with an extensive sprinkler sys-tem, supplied by Marioff. Marioff Hi-Fog fire protection covers the complete accommodations, service spaces, deep-fat fryers and laundry ducts throughout the ship. Furthermore, Hi-Fog provided the complete machinery space systems, both for total flooding and local applica-tion, in accordance with DNVs FM notation. The system is powered by two sprinkler pump accumulator (SPAU) units each providing full capacity and located in different compartments to ensure redundancy. W

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AUTOMATION SYSTEM L-3 Valmarine supplied the Damatic Integrated Automation System including machinery and HVAC automation as well as emergency shutdown systems for the Celebrity Solstice. The system consists of some 13,000 I/O channels. The machinery au-tomation system is linked to Wrtsils new UNIC control system. As alarms are time-stamped in UNIC when arriv-ing to Valmarines system, the information has a more ac-curate time-stamp than in earlier systems, making control and analysis more accurate.

Valmarines new Damatic DNA Information Management System also has been used for the first time on a cruise ship. It is supplied through a joint system development with Metso Automation, which supplied its metsoDNA system components and basic software, as well as related support, to L-3 Valmarine. The DNA sys-tem gathers and stores, for a one-year period, informa-tion from all events which have taken place onboard. This information is efficiently used for reporting and also for looking into various parameters and trends afterwards, for example to find further possibilities for energy sav-ings. All operator actions are stored, and through DNA Snapshot, a previous operating condition of a system can be repeated on the monitors. The Celebrity Solstice is the pilot installation for this system.

BRIDGE SAM Electronics GmbH, part of L-3 Communications, has supplied a comprehensive integrat-ed navigation command system NACOS 65-5. Kongsberg Maritime supplied the Dynamic Positioning joystick sys-tem and remote control of the Azipod propulsion and bow tunnel thrusters.

In a first for Celebrity Cruises, the vessel has a sepa-rate Safety Command Center monitored by an additional deck officer, allowing the officer on watch to strictly fo-cus on navigation. The center monitors all safety aspects onboard, such as fire alarms, detection systems and secu-rity-camera monitoring. The center also handles onboard safety communications.

The vessel is equipped with NAPAs Onboard NAPA loading and damage stability software, which provides accurate information on both loading and of a flooding situation, with built-in accurate real-time damage stabil-ity reporting of the vessel. Onboard NAPA monitors dry spaces using SF-Controls LevelDatic100S sensors, as well as the status of all watertight doors, semi watertight class-A fire doors and openings. Based on the DFC Decision Support for Flooding Control flooding simulation and on the provided Advisory Cards, the safety officer is provid-ed with fast suggested counter-measures on how to best stop the flooding. The system also provides the capabil-ity to do simulations for various flooding situations. This is the first vessel with NAPAs entire range of onboard systems installed. It is also the first passenger ship which fulfils DNVs LCS-DC notation (Loading computer system for damage control, which applies to integrated systems developed to assist the master as a decision aid under damage conditions).

SeaMobile Enterprises supplied the redundant C-band antenna systems of type SeaTel 9797. According to the company, more bandwidth (some 2 Mbps) has been pro-vided to the Celebrity Solstice, which is more than to any other cruise ship installed by SeaMobile. In addition, the company also supplied some 12 crew voice lines, redun-dant electronic racks and call accounting systems. Joint-venture partner Wireless Maritime Services provided the cellular system onboard.

ENERGY SAVINGS IN SHIP OPERATION AND NAVIGATION The latest version of NAPA Power System is installed on the Celebrity Solstice. The system is based on a 3D model of the ship, including the latest research on hydrodynamics affecting the ships resist-ance. The model is then used to estimate the ships per-formance using an accurate representation of the ships

power plant and propulsion system, considering all the major factors that affect the ships performance, includ-ing prevailing and forecasted wind, waves, shallow water, floating position and currents. The system then creates a detailed voyage plan for the most optimal execution of the voyage in the most optimal way, including proposed route and used power, in order to save fuel and thus also reduce harmful emissions. Earlier installations have veri-fied fuel savings by using the system of some 4% to 5%.

In order to minimize human inaccuracies when sailing the selected voyage, NAPA Speed Pilot, also installed on the Celebrity Solstice, is specifically designed for the pur-pose of improving the ships efficiency through smooth reactions and special algorithms for economical speed adjustments. It is connected directly to the ships propul-sion system and controls the ships speed according to the set optimal way of executing the voyage, as calculated on-line by NAPA Power.

AIR CONDITIONING AND VENTILATIONImtech Deutschland GmbH supplied the air-condition-ing and ventilation system for the vessel and also a cabin control-and-monitoring system. In close cooperation be-tween the owner, the yard and Imtech, a great deal of work was done to minimize the energy consumption from the air-conditioning system, one of the biggest energy consumers onboard. Advanced automatic moni-toring-and-control systems have been used to optimize energy usage.

Additional work included energy-recovery measures development for the Air Handling Units, a cabin fancoil system and the development and design of a public fan-coil system. It was also decided to use variable water flow pump control and related control valves for the chilled and heating water systems for the cooling and heating coils respectively.

In addition to being installed in the cabins, Fancoils were also used extensively in public spaces. Altogether 110 fancoils are used in public areas. The use of fancoils in public spaces has reduced the number of AC-rooms needed onboard by some 550 square meters, space which could be used in other ways, such as for addi-tional cabins. In the theater, for example, both the air temperature and air quality, or enthalpy, is measured, which saves the amount of fresh air feed needed. The consumption of cooling energy of fancoils, using only returned air from the room, is much lower compared with that of air handling units using outside air.

Imtech Schiffbau-/Dockbautechnik did the turn-key delivery of the air conditioning system in the accommo-dations area and of the AC- and ventilation system, and also the chilled and heating water system within the AC rooms, including the technical design and calculations of the main components, the AC rooms, trunks and deck duct systems, the delivery of all main components and duct components, installation of the duct systems in all AC rooms, trunks and public and service decks as well the commissioning of the whole AC/ventilation system in the accommodations area. In the deck areas, the sys-tem was designed by Imtech in close cooperation with the Meyer Werft, including that of a chair ventilation sys-tem for the main theater.

The HVAC system included 85 Air Handling Units, provided with enthalpy recovery systems, some 1,600 cabin fancoil units of vertical or horizontal layout, a spe-cial cabin area with cabin air induction units, a separate cabin control and monitoring system for cabin fancoil and cabin air induction units and some 70 technical area fancoils in addition to the 110 public fancoil units.

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sumption for the Celebrity Solstice is the same as for the previous, smaller 90,000 gross ton reference ship.

According to Krousouloudis, some 25% to 30% savings in air-conditioning energy have been achieved through these various improvements. Energy-saving measures are also actively promoted to the passengers throughout the fleet with a video film campaign. Other measures include the usage of heat-reflecting tinted glass onboard, an ad-vanced lighting system and efficient insulation.

FRESH WATER GENERATION The evaporators and reverse osmosis plants onboard produce some 2,100 tons of potable water per day. Hamworthy has delivered two Multi Stage Flash (MSF) evaporators each with a distillate capacity of 750 cubic meters per day. The heat recovery of the system is optimised by using the diesel engines jacket water system with the evapo-rators. The thermal efficiency of the MSF evaporators has been decreased to less than 150kWh per ton of dis-tillate from 190 kWh per ton.

The reverse osmosis plant, with a daily capacity of some 700 cubic meters of fresh water, was supplied by Watman Oy. In addition to fitting reverse osmosis plants on the newbuildings, Celebrity Cruises has retro-fitted these more energy efficient plants on many ships throughout the fleet.

The Celebrity Solstice is the first cruise ship in the Celebrity Cruises fleet with fresh water swimming pools. RWO Marine has also delivered the water-soften-ing system for the ship for reducing hardness by remov-ing the manganese, iron and sulphur from drinking wa-ter and the water for coffee machines, etc. Two units with a capacity of 26 cubic meters per hour have been delivered.

ADVANCED WASTEWATER TREATMENT RWO Marines Kruger Wabag delivered its first Memrod marine advanced wastewater treatment plant for the Celebrity Solstice. Dimensioned for 4,400 people, the plant can treat 1,450 kilograms per day or a hydraulic load of 1,540 cubic meters per day. The unit is designed to allow for 48 hours without discharge. This is man-aged by increasing the biomass concentration in the tanks and by using UV to prevent excess bioactivity. During this time, the biosludge content is increased. Within 14 hours, one is able to repeat the process non-discharge process, if needed. In order to minimize en-ergy consumption on Celebrity newbuildings, the oxy-gen content is continuously measured and the frequen-cy controlled air pump speed is adjusted accordingly. Deliveries include control panels with visualisation, and a complete repeater on the bridge.

The sludge from the Memrod system goes to the waste-burning incinerator system supplied by Norsk Inova. Evac has supplied four vacuum collecting sys-tems and some 2,250 EVAC 900, Wall Model USPH, Prestige vacuum toilets. After pre-screening, the sewage is discharged from the vacuum collecting tanks to the wastewater treatment plant for further treatment.

OTHER WASTE SYSTEMS The food waste gener-ated onboard the ship is handled in order to reduce volume through compacting, shredding and burning. Norsk Inova AS handled the entire project for the yard, with Meiko Maschinenbau supplying its Waste-Star food waste system. The main components in the system are the control system, the food waste system, the bio resi-due treatment system, the waste incinerator system and the recycling and storage system. With the control sys-tem, supplied by Norsk Inova, the operator can access all plants, waste incinerator, food waste and bio residue treatment systems, from the operator station and moni-tor which controls all plant-related information.

The Food Waste System, by Meiko, allows segregated conveying of the food waste generated on board. It is

completely automatic and designed as an entirely closed assemblage. The food waste is transported using a vacu-um piping system from the in-feed hopper units, located in 12 different galleys and food preparation areas, direct to a WTSE waste treatment unit, each with a capacity of four cubic meters per day. Two WTSE systems have been supplied and in all 400 meters of vacuum piping were installed. From the cyclone, where free water is separated, the food waste drops into a shredder before water is removed in a water press that also conveys the food waste into the silos. The onboard daily food waste produced is some four cubic meters. There are two 4-cu-bic-meter waste silos onboard, providing excess storage for the time the vessel is in port and the incinerators cannot be used. The shredder is designed to cut the wet waste below the minimum IMO size to allow overboard discharge, after treatment in the advanced wastewater treatment plant. The average dry solids content of the shredded waste is some 5% to 7%, and prior to feeding into the incinerator, the water presses increases it to some 20% by squeezing the slurry to separate excess water.

The bio residue from the advanced wastewater plant is further treated onboard with technology supplied by Norsk Inova. Polymers are added to enhance dewater-ing. The dewatering unit has a capacity of nine cubic meters per hour, delivering a residue with a dry solids content of some 25% measured by weight. Norsk Inova has supplied two 2,100kW incinerators, with a specially developed Internal Dryer incorporated, which utilizes energy from burning the dry waste to dry out and burn the wet waste reducing the demand for water injection (required by external dryers) to a negligible quantity.

The garbage room has a sorting table for separation of burnable waste collected from passenger and crew areas, pantries, bars and provision areas, etc. The waste is manually fed into the shredder before incineration. The dry waste compactor, the tin cans densifier and the glass-breaker are operated as stand alone units. Also, the ash from the incinerator is transported from the gar-bage room with a forklift to an appropriate storage area for later disposal ashore.

Meiko has also supplied the 68 dishwashers onboard. All dishwashers can be remotely programmed and moni-tored using a mobile phone. Possible error messages are also automatically transferred to the operators mobile phone. Meiko claims a 30% reduction in dishwasher en-ergy consumption through its low energy management system.

MUSTER STATIONS, LIFE BOATS AND RAFTS The ship has eleven muster stations. Thanks to the size of the vessel, the lifeboat belonging to each assembly or muster station could be placed so that unnecessary lon-gitudinal traffic is avoided. Evacuation scenarios showed evacuation times ranging from 44 minutes, 51 seconds to 33 minutes, 31 seconds. The evacuation simulations are most detailed and consider factors such as age, dis-abilities, and various probable human behaviors. Each muster station is fitted with a large video screen for safety announcements, which are also transmitted on-board the lifeboats.

Umoe Schat-Harding has supplied 16 MPC29-type life-boats for 150 persons and their type PD18DMM davits, as well as six CTL38SV combined lifeboats/tenders for 150 and 120 persons and their PD24DMM-type davits. The company also supplied two Merlin 6,15 Jet Rescue boats with SA3,5II-type davits. Both the lifeboats and tender boats were specially designed for the Solstice-class vessels. The davits were developed together with the client to provide a possibly integrated aesthetic de-sign. The MPC-29-type lifeboats are claimed to be the most compact 150 person lifeboats on the market. There are also four marine evacuation stations, each dimen-sioned for 450 persons. W

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ADVANCED LED LIGHTING SYSTEM There are some 60,300 lighting spots onboard. With careful selec-tion of the most efficient lighting sources, a reduction of up to 40% in lighting-related energy consumption has been achieved in some areas. Efficient fluorescent light-ing and LED lighting has been extensively used, com-pared to more energy-consuming halogen bulbs used on the Millennium-class, which also produce more heat adding to the air-conditioning load. In addition, technol-ogy is applied to ensure that the lights are on only when someone is in the room. A design for daylight harvesting has also been applied.

The LED lighting was custom designed for the Celebrity Solstice by Osram. Its Linearlight range LED modules are used in the casino, discotheque and the dining area, along with many other places onboard. The LED modules onboard have a total length of some 6,400 meters. For ambient lighting, Meyer Werft opted for the energy-saving halogen lamps Decostar 51 Energy Saver 20W, used in corridors and halls, in recessed ceil-ing downlights. While it cuts the energy consumption by more than 40% compared to conventional halogen lamps, its level of brightness and aesthetics remain con-stant due to the special IRC infrared coating developed by Osram. Efficient compact Lumilux T5 HE fluorescent lamps also are used for ambient lighting. Altogether, the energy consumption for lighting is reduced by more than 15% compared to similar ships. On the second ves-sel in the series, the Celebrity Equinox, some rooms that on the Celebrity Solstice still have halogen lights will be changed to LED lighting. With innovative lighting solu-tions throughout a vessel, Osram calculates that it is op-timally possible to save up to 30% of the energy for light-ing, and up to as much as eight tons in weight savings.

Kulovaara pointed out that onboard the Celebrity Solstice no key-card controlled lighting is used. Onboard tests had shown that the cabin attendants and customers are so well educated that they switch off the lights.

HULL STRENGTH AND DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has worked in co-operation with Royal Caribbean for several years in gathering real-time data on cruise ship hull loads and dynamic behavior in order to continuously improve the predictability of FEM-model and structural analysis. VTT also did numerical calculations to predict structural loads and behavior at sea, wave loads, and pre-diction of vibrations induced, to help build a ship with no problems related to hull dynamic behavior or pas-

senger comfort. VTT has installed transducers onboard for automatic data collection, to verify the accuracy of the calculations.

ELEVATORS KONE Elevators supplied all the eleva-tors. These include eight panoramic elevators based on the MiniSpace technology, four passenger elevators based on the MonoSpace technology, nine service/galley elevators, eight MonoSpace and one MiniSpace, as well as one easy-access handicap elevator and one pantry el-


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CELEBRITY SOLSTICEMain particulars

Built: 2008, Meyer Werft, PapenburgOwner: Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.Operator: Celebrity CruisesMaiden voyage: November, 2008Base ports: Port Everglades, 7-night cruisesCountry of registry: MaltaClassification society: Det Norske VeritasPrice of the ship: $750 millionLength: 317.19 mBreath, moulded: 36.79 mDraught, fully loaded: 8.30 mTonnage: 121,878 gross tonsPassenger capacity, max: 3,150# of passenger cabins: 1,426# of crew: 1,271Maximum speed: 24 knotsMain engines: 4 x Wrtsil 16V46CR, a 16,800kW at 514rpmTotal output: 67,200 kWPropulsion: 2 x 20.5 MW Azipods

evator. The passenger elevators are equipped with a spe-cially developed Boarding Mode control program, used when the passengers enter the vessel. Also, the service elevators are fitted with a specific control mode when used for transporting the passenger luggage to the cabin decks. Missal Object Licht also provided lighting systems for the vessel. Precab, the modular cabin fabricator of Meyer Werft, has produced the vessels cabins. Wiurila Marine delivered the doors both for the passenger and crew cabins, in all some 3,000 doors. Norac AS delivered some 80,000 square meters of wall panels for all passenger cabins, cabin corridors and public stairways. Parmarine has supplied in all 875 A60-graded hinged fire doors and Halton Marine supplied all the fire dampers of the devel-oped FDB2 and FDL types, in all some 550 pieces, and shut-off, balancing and gas dampers of types UTG and UTT, some 300 pieces.

Hofmann-engineering designed the signal mast, includ-ing static analysis, frequency, arrangement of equipment, design of fittings and fabrication drawings. Deltamarin, in alliance with Safety at Sea, also provided open-deck passenger comfort studies, swimming pool dynamic analysis and noise analysis.

Saint-Gobain Kinon supplied, in all, 1,520 square me-ters of 10 millimeter printed glass for exterior applica-tions and stairways. The company also supplied all cold glasses on the bridge, all heated glasses on the bridge and all fire rated glasses, placed in the embarkation areas and windows below. Isover, part of Saint-Gobain Marine Applications, delivered approximately 250,000 square meters of insulation for fire protection and thermal insulation, mainly of their Ultimate-type, a lightweight insulation with weight savings of up to 50 % compared with stone wool.

The complete deck finish of the Celebrity Solstice was supplied by Bolidt. In total, the ship has 11,000 square

meters of Bolideck Future Teak on the outside decks, the helicopter deck, pool decks and all the balconies, as well as for some inside decks. The company also supplied the sport tracks.

SOLAR ENERGY TAKEN INTO USE The Celebrity Solstice also is the first cruise ship to have solar panels onboard, with 500 square meters of solar panels installed and used to provide the power for the ships guest eleva-tors. The power produced is the equivalent of 7,000 LED light bulbs. Some panels serve a dual purpose as they also provide shading for the solarium as well. Although solar panels are not 100% ready yet (regarding their ef-ficiency) to be widely used on cruise ship, we though it was important to use this technology and to get a feel of it, Krousouloudis said, and he noted that this technology might possibly be introduced on the rest of the fleet as well. In five to eight years from now, we might be able to replace these panels when more efficient ones be-come available, he said.

NO KITE SAILS YET! We also looked at kite sails, Krousouloudis said. They do not work for us yet, as we are going with different speeds. They are designed for between 12 to 14 knots and most of our ships are going 15 to 18 knots. The ships in the Celebrity Cruises fleet were run through sophisticated models of the producer of kite sails for vessels. The company will have a close look at this technology for possible future applications though, although he noted that the Celebrity Solstice is way too big for this.

ANOTHER IDEA TO BE TESTED Krousouloudis also said the company is going to experiment with a very small wind turbine, to be put on one vessel later this month. The technology is brand new, and will pro-duce a power in the range of the solar panels. Q

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