MAN DieselFacts 01-2008

MAN Diesel DIESELFACTS • SERVICE • ENGINES • TURBOCHARGERS • PROPULSION SYSTEMS • MARINE • STATIONARY • • 2008 • 1 • First ME-B sees Light of Day Versatile ME/ME-C Engines Facilitate Low STX kickstarts new, two-stroke generation Container-Ship Speeds page 4 MAN Diesel has heralded a new era in two-stroke diesel engines with Timmermann on the production of the first MAN Spares Policy B&W S40ME-B engine. page 5 The new engine has been built by 51/60DF Achieves stx Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. at its Type Approval Changwon works to the south of the page 6 Korean peninsula, and successfully passed its Type Approval Test on Renewable In, the 11th of December last. Renewable Out CO2-neutral fuels create CO2 The 6S40ME-B is the first in a -neutral fuels series of 25,000-dwt multipurpose page 7 vessels being built in China by Shandong Huanghai Shipbuilding Significant Diesel Co. Ltd., and ordered by InterShip LNG Milestone Navigation of Cyprus. The engine First carriers with two- delivers 6,810 kW at 146 rpm with stroke MAN B&W engines an MEP of 21 bar. page 8 The ME-B design is based on the MAN Diesel to Power experience gathered from MAN Emerging African Markets Diesel’s existing MC-C and ME-C The MAN B&W 6S40ME-B engine pictured at stx in Changwon V28/32S gensets at heart of engine ranges, among the most new power concept popular engines available on operated exhaust valve and an The market requirement for the bore ratio of 4.4. In turn, the new page 9 today’s market. To suit the small- electronically controlled fuel- lowest possible propeller speed in engine has an increased maximum bore segment, the economical injection system as seen with the relation to bore size has led to the cylinder pressure, giving rise to an MAN Diesel Announces ME-B design utilises a camshaft- ME-C range. new ME-B engine having a stroke/ Continued on page 2 » First 51/60DF Order page 9 Turbocharged Development Mitsui Partnership Delivers the Goods page 10 PrimeServ Makes it Four out of Four Advanced technology central to turbocharger future EMC contract covers entire ATC shuttle-tanker fleet The next phase of diesel engine Emissions and fuel consumption page 11 development is set to be dominated Planned legislation lies at the centre by advanced digital electronics as of present development activity to Two-Stroke Propulsion the enabling technology of the further limit emissions of oxides Trends in LNG Carriers highly flexible setting of engine of nitrogen (NOx) from large diesel New technical paper operating parameters. On the fuel engines, as exemplified by the sec- page 12 management (injection) side, the ond Tier of emissions regulations advent of microprocessor-control- from the International Maritime MAN Diesel and led common rail fuel injection Organisation (IMO) and similar Burckhardt Compression technology has given the designer limits for stationary engines. This in Strategic Partnership the scope to optimise injection includes efforts to reduce specific page 13 pressure and timing at any point fuel oil consumption (SFOC), both on the operating profile of a large, for economic reasons and as a The First Steps on a 1,000 four-stroke diesel engine. Parallel- route to reduced emissions of the Mile Chinese Journey ing this development, the Business greenhouse gas carbon dioxide Growing Oriental market Unit Turbocharger at MAN Diesel (CO2). Indeed, the link between fuel page 14 in Augsburg, Germany, is pursu- In contrast to other sequential turbocharging systems, the MAN Diesel STC system is intentionally efficiency and emissions has gained ing projects aimed at achieving a simple, consisting of two identical, standard MAN Diesel high efficiency turbochargers new importance as emissions of TORM Group First to similar level of parameter control CO2 have come to share equal focus Order S50ME-B on the air management side. four-stroke diesel engines. A tradi- all sizes of turbocharger – i.e. a core with noxious emissions like NOx page 15 tional turbocharging pioneer, MAN group consisting of the turbine and and oxides of sulphur. At the “Turbocharger Technical Diesel has never relinquished tech- compressor mounted either end While, essentially, exhaust emis- Lightning Strikes Twice Update” event held in Augsburg nological leadership since it began of a shaft supported in a central sions are in direct proportion to in the Far-East in mid December 2007, the Busi- turbocharger manufacturing in “inboard” plain bearing, lubri- fuel consumption, a special chal- M A N Diesel Pr i meSer v ness Unit Turbocharger gave an 1934. For example, only a few years cated from the engine lubricating lenge in reciprocating engines is answers unusual call exposé of its current development later, in 1940, MAN Diesel devised system. This concept was – sooner the so-called “trade-off” between page 16 activities in the area of advanced the basic rotating group concept or later – adopted by all major specific fuel consumption and NOx turbocharging for large two- and that would come to predominate in manufacturers. Continued on page 2 »  DIESELFACTS » Continued from front page First ME-B sees Light of Day improved fuel consumption that M A N D i e s e l i nt r o duc e d t h e requirements for: is 2 g/kWh lower than existing, ME-B concept in mid-2006 with • electronic fuel-injection small-bore engines. Thanks to the t he sma l l- b or e S35 M E-B a nd control electronic control of the engine’s S 4 0 M E - B M A N B &W e n g i n e • fuel economy parameters, the ME-B is also well designs.