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The VB Titán and VB Trón pictured during construction at Boluda Shipyards – Unión Naval Valencia | |||||
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The Solan pictured during construction | |||||
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The VB Bravo pictured during sea trials | |||||
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The Bonxie pictured during launching at Boluda Shipyards - Unión Naval Valencia | |||||
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Illustration of the new Ropax vessel. | |||||
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The common-rail 8L32/44CR engine aboard the Playa de Azkorri | |||||
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The Playa de Azkorri pictured in Bilbao, the Basque Country, a few days before travelling to the Canary Islands for sea-trials | |||||
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An illustration of the general layout aboard the Playa de Azkorri | |||||
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Hydraulic crane aboard the Playa de Azkorri | |||||
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The Leiv Eiriksson pictured during construction at La Naval shipyard in Sestao, Spain. An Alphatronic 2000 propulsion management system controls the dredger’s entire propulsion package that includes two MAN Diesel Alpha-type VBS1680-ODF propellers operating in nozzles. The propellers‘ blade feet and hub are partly chromium-coated for protection against abrasive wear and calculated bollard pull is an impressive 560 metric tons | |||||
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View of the 16V48/60B main engine within Cristóbal Colon’s engine room | |||||
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Jette Kristine | |||||
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Before the propeller blade and nozzle upgrade installation | |||||
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F/V Jette Kristine upgraded on the slipway at MAN Diesel PrimeServ Frederikshavn | |||||
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Full pull – a full scale testing verifying the 23.5% bollard pull increase | |||||
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After the propeller blade and nozzle upgrade installation | |||||
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Owner Niels Arne Hounisen - flanked by Christian Juul (left) and Kenneth Boesen(right), both MAN Diesel; | |||||
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Model of the world's first power ship with large-bore diesel engines (photo composition).
Modell des weltweit ersten Kraftwerksschiffs mit Großdieselmotoren (Fotomontage). | |||||
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Rendering of the 113-metre, high-speed catamaran to be built by Austal | |||||
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The MAN Diesel 9L32/40 engine at ZGPT – the company also has another three such engines on its production line in various stages of completion
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The first production 51/60DF dual fuel engines recently completed their Factory Acceptance Testing at the MAN Diesel works in Augsburg, Germany. | |||||
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Technical Data of the MAN Diesel 51/60G gas engine. | |||||
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Schematic arrangement of the MAN Diesel Variable Miller Cycle with two-stage turbo charging on the 6L32/44CR engine. | |||||
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The MAN Diesel 51/60G gas engine offers market leading power density and efficiency. | |||||
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MAN Diesel 6L32/44CR inline six cylinder common rail engine under test with two-stage turbocharging including VTA technology and VVT. | |||||
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KNUD RASMUSSEN (P570) in North Atlantic coastal service – powered by 2 x 8L27/38 | |||||
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The engine control room of EJNAR MIKKELSEN (P571) during the preparations before commissioning | |||||
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Main engine room of EJNAR MIKKELSEN (P571) during the preparations before commissioning The propulsion package is a single shaft system with 2 x 8L27/38 medium-speed engines driving the propeller and shaft alternator via a common main gearbox | |||||
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MAN Diesel’s 32/44CR common rail engine has now achieved Type Approval from the American Bureau of Shipping, Bureau Veritas, Det Norske Veritas, Germanischer Lloyd, Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, China Classification Society and Registro Italiano Navale. | |||||
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The recently Type Approved MAN Diesel type 8L32/44CR common rail engine is one of two for heavy lift vessel Combi Dock III. Seen here is sister ship Combi Dock I leaving Cape Town harbour. The vessels are identical except that the newer ship uses two 4880 kW eight cylinder 8L32/44CR diesels instead of two 4500 kW rated nine cylinder 9L32/40 predecessor engines. | |||||
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Five MAN Diesel type 8L51/60DF dual-fuel engines with a total output of 40,000 kW are on their way to power the world’s largest LNG carrier employing electric propulsion. The 174,000 m³ capacity vessel has been ordered by Spanish owner EN Elcano from STX Shipbuilding, Korea. | |||||
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The first production 51/60DF dual-fuel engines recently completed their Factory Acceptance Testing at the MAN Diesel works in Augsburg, Germany. | |||||
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With a handshake Jari Kujala of Aker Yards, Finland (right) and Prof. Dr. Wolfram Lausch of MAN Diesel seal a major contract for propulsion and onboard power equipment centring on MAN Diesel type 48/60CR and 21/31 engines. | |||||
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The PA4 V 200 SMDS from MAN Diesel with its unqiue combination of supercharging and turbo-charging is used in French "Scorpène" class conventional submarines. | |||||
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These engines achieve best-in-class power output and absolute safety while snorkelling via a unique system pairing a supercharger with a turbocharger. | |||||
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The PrimeServ Center in Valencia was inaugurated in July 2008. Read the press release here. | |||||
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The PrimeServ Center in Valencia was inaugurated in July 2008. Read the press release here. | |||||
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Schelde Shipbuilding has placed orders with MAN Diesel for eight 5.4 MW rated 12V 28/33D diesels to power four 20 knot, 115 metre patrol vessels for the Royal Netherlands Navy. Read the press release here. | |||||
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MAN Diesel is contracted to deliver six of its 16V 28/33D high power density diesels to VT Shipbuilding to propel three 25 knot, 90.5 metre OPV’s for the Trinidad and Tobago Coastguard. Read the press release here. | |||||
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The MAN Diesel type 58/64 diesel has become an engine of choice for container feeders like this 1400 TEU Sietas Type 178 vessels under construction for JR Shipping of the Netherlands. | |||||
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Read the technical data for L58/64 here. | |||||
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MAN Diesel’s 51/60 DF dual fuel engine targets LNG carriers and stationary (electrical power generation) applications offers a market leading 1000 kW/cylinder output in both gaseous and liquid fuel operating modes | |||||
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MAN Diesel’s 51/60 DF dual fuel engine for LNG carriers has now achieved Type Approval of the Classification Societies American Bureau of Shipping, Bureau Veritas, Det Norske Veritas, Germanischer Lloyd, Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, Nippon Kaiji Kyokai, Registro Italiano Navale and the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping. | |||||
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As well as the MAN Diesel PrimeServ Service Centre in Hamburg, parts reconditioning will also be carried out at strategic locations around the world, including Dubai, Singapore, and Houston and New Jersey in the USA. | |||||
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Assessing engine and turbocharger spares requirements will be an important theme in the tuition and qualification provided at MAN Diesel PrimeServ Academies. | |||||
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MAN Diesel PrimeServ’s spare part kits have been well received on the engine and turbocharger aftermarket. | |||||
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PrimeServ’s maintenance contracts with the Alaska Tanker Company centre on the diesel-electric propulsion systems of four shuttle tankers. Each is powered by four gen-sets based on MAN Diesel inline six-cylinder type 6L48/60 engines feeding two electric motors connected to controllable pitch propellers. | |||||
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With the conclusion of an EMC (Engine Management Concept) contract for engine maintenance aboard the Alaskan Legend, MAN Diesel PrimeServ now has maintenance responsibility for all four shuttle tankers in the Alaska Tanker Company fleet. | |||||
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Among early orders for its new 32/44 CR engines with common rail fuel injection are four engines for a 102 metre seismic survey vessel. The ship features a four engine, twin propeller propulsion system with paired “father and son” engines connected via a twin input shaft, single output shaft reduction gear. | |||||
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The Combi Dock III is a highly flexible semi-submersible heavy lift cargo ship capable of transporting bulk cargo, containers or floating and rolling loads. It is powered by twin MAN Diesel 8L 32/44 CR engines with common rail fuel injection, each rated 4480 kW at 750 rpm. | ||||
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Representatives from MAN Diesel, shipowners Harren & Partner and delegates from investors in the ships confirm the satisfactory execution of their contract with the Augsburg-based engine builder. | |||||
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MAN Diesel and Harren & Partner recently celebrated the start of testing on the final engine of eight ordered by the Bremen shipowner for eight 16,500 DWT oil products and chemical tankers from the Chinese Jiangnan Shipyard. | |||||
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The MAN Diesel 20V 28/33 D engines are each rated 9000 kW at 1000 rpm and installed in pairs in the twin hulls of the 112 metre Incat catamarans. They drive high capacity reversible water-jets via reduction gears with horizontal offset input and output shafts. | |||||
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The launching of the Natchan Rera, the first vessel in the new 112 metre Incat catamaran series. | |||||
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The Natchan Rera, the first vessel in the new 112 metre Incat catamaran series with MAN Diesel engines. | |||||
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The MAN Diesel 20V 28/33 D engines are each rated 9000 kW at 1000 rpm and installed in pairs in the twin hulls of the 112 metre Incat catamarans. They drive high capacity reversible water-jets via reduction gears with horizontal offset input and output shafts | |||||
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MAN Diesel’s 51/60 DF dual fuel engine for LNG carriers has logged long periods of uninterrupted test operation. The most recent milestone was switchover from gaseous fuel to 100% HFO charge and back at MCR. | |||||
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At 360 metres overall length and 117 metre beam width, the twin-hull oil and gas platform installation, decommissioning, removal and pipe-laying ship Pieter Schelte, will be the largest vessel in the world with the largest pipe-lay tension capacity. Propulsion and onboard power for working functions and the needs of 450 crew members will be provided by nine MAN Diesel 32/44CR engines with a total output of 94.6 MW. | |||||
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The MAN Diesel 32/44CR engine showing the positions of the pumps and rails in the MAN Diesel common rail system. | |||||
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Cross section of the 32/44CR in-line engine. It is based on the proven type 32/40 CR. The stroke was increased from 400 mm in the 32/40 to 440 mm in the 32/44CR. | |||||
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Scandlines, operator of the Rødby to Puttgarden, Denmark to Germany car and passenger ferry line, has ordered an MAN Diesel inline six cylinder 6L 32/44 CR common rail engine to replace a damaged engine aboard its 14,822 GRT, 1140 passenger Prinsesse Benedikte double-ended passenger and vehicle ferry. | |||||
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MAN Diesel’s customer events centring on its new 51/60 DF engine for LNG carriers were rated a resounding success by both participants and organizers. | |||||
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Cross section of the dual fuel engine 51/60DF. | |||||
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Ceremony at SMM 2004: China Chanjang Shipping Group order their 250th engine and 50th CP propeller from MAN B&W Diesel. From left: Member of the Executive Board of MAN B&W, Diesel Stefan Spindler; Managing Director of Chanjang, Liu Xi Han; Vice President Marine Four-Stroke MAN B&W Diesel, Wolfram Lausch. | |||||
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The “3D Engine Viewer“ is a new software tool by MAN B&W Diesel to support reliable engine room planning. It provides CAD models of MAN four-stroke engines – in individual configuration. | |||||
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The common rail technology developed by MAN B&W Diesel on board the CORNELIA MAERSK. An MAN engineer checks on the 32/40CR engine. | |||||
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Container ship CORNELIA MAERSK approaching Bremerhaven. | |||||
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The common rail engine 6L32/40 was presented to the public in the middle of the Austrian Alps. | |||||
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Technical Director Dr. Wachtmeister (left) takes over professorship for internal combustion engines at the renowned Munich Technical University. The new Technical Director of MAN B&W Diesel for medium-speed large-bore diesel engines is Dr. Ralf Marquard. | |||||
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The 58/64 is the largest four-stroke engine in MAN B&W Diesel's programme | |||||
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The damaged crankshaft is released from the block and hoisted to car deck. Line boring of the engine block is performed on site | |||||
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Engine V32/40 on the testbed in Augsburg | |||||
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The engine 48/60B combined the successful model 48/60 with advanced technology. | |||||
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In 1903, the French Petit Pierre was, along with the Russian Vandal, the first vessel to be propelled by a diesel engine. | |||||
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Two more cruise ships of the same series as the Norwegian Dawn will be equipped with MAN B&W Diesel medium-speed engines. | |||||
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M/S BANASA crossing the Straits of Gibraltar | |||||
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The vessel Alexander von Humboldt | |||||
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Engine L40/54 on the testbed in Augsburg | |||||
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The passenger liner Queen Elizabeth 2, powered by nine 9L58/64 engines. | |||||
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The vessel Annemieke | |||||
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Preparations for the crankshaft replacement with entrance to the engine room from the car deck. A special crane rig is built-up at the car deck | |||||
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The M/S SUNNAN, owned by the company Gustus AB, Gteborg | |||||
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'Flying Squads' ready on the car deck of BANASA with a fully equipped 40 containerised workshop and spare parts stock | |||||
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The damaged crankshaft is released from the block | |||||
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Engine block dismantled and hoisted from the bedplate via the car deck crane arrangement | |||||
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Engine L58/64 on the testbed in Augsburg | |||||
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The 13 most important classification societies tested the 12V48/60B engine on the Augsburg testbed. Each of the classification experts certified the efficiency of the new engine type with their signatures. | |||||
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