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Torben Johansen, Head of Propeller & Aft Ship Unit, MAN Diesel & Turbo shaking hands with Jens Julius Kappel (right) after signing the contract for the Kappel design business concerning propellers and all affiliated intellectual property rights including software, on 29 February in Copenhagen, Denmark.

MAN Alpha propellers (FPP scale 1:28 models shown) with four-bladed conventional blade design (left) and five-bladed with Kappel tip fin design (right). As with the CPP range, the MAN Alpha FPPs are also covering a power range of 4-40 MW, corresponding to e.g. MAN B&W low-speed engines up to the G80ME-C9 series.

MAN Alpha propellers (FPP scale 1:28 models shown) with four-bladed conventional blade design (left) and five-bladed with Kappel tip fin design (right). As with the CPP range, the MAN Alpha FPPs are also covering a power range of 4-40 MW, corresponding to e.g. MAN B&W low-speed engines up to the G80ME-C9 series.

MAN Alpha Kappel tip fin design features and benefits: Tip vortices are formed due to the difference in pressure between the pressure and suction side of the propeller as the water will move from the region of high pressure to the region of low pressure. The pressure on both sides near the tip will therefore equalise and the efficiency of the tip region will decrease. The Kappel design minimises the flow over the tip, and the outer region of the Kappel propeller therefore retains a high efficiency increasing the total efficiency of the Kappel propeller compared to conventional designs.

Graphical rendering of one of the Sovcomflot newbuilding LNG carriers

Graphical rendering of the Elcano S.A. 7,000-dwt asphalt and oil-product tanker

Library picture of the MAN L27/38 workhorse

Library photo of an MAN Alpha VBS Mk 5 CP propeller

Library photo of an MAN 32/40 four-stroke engine

Photograph from the signing ceremony for the main propulsion systems with: (front row, left to right) Torben Johansen – MAN Diesel & Turbo Frederikshavn, Chen Yibing – Chief Superintendent CSMTCD, Huang Chengsui – Vice President Jiangnan Shipyard (Group) Co., Ltd., Zhang Haisen, President ZJ CME; (back row, left to right) Bao Dongming – Vice General Manager ZJ CME, Sha Jin – Sales Manager MAN Diesel & Turbo Shanghai, Hu Weiguo – Director Newbuilding Division CSMTCD, Zhang Zhibing – Officer CSMTCD, Gu Jixiang – Officer CSMTCD, Wu Qiang – Vice President CSSC Group, Karsten Borneman – MAN Diesel & Turbo Frederikshavn, Shen Weiping – Vice General Manager Marine Design & Research Institute of China, Li Cheng – Vice General Manager ZJ CME, Li Jun – Project Manager ZJ CME.

Archive photo of an MAN Alpha AMG28 gearbox and type VBS CP propeller

Library picture of the 21/31 engine

8L27/38 engine with integrated front-end power take-off for the drive of Fi-Fi equipment

Grandweld 67m, 90t BP AHTS outline

MAN L27/38 modularised design principle offering service friendliness and overhaul flexibility to cylinder units, pumps and coolers

Power package: One of two medium-speed MAN 8L27/38 workhorses per ship

View of the 32.5-m-long Neptun undergoing seatrials earlier this year and displaying its fire-fighting capability

View of the 32.5-m-long Neptun undergoing seatrials earlier this year and displaying its fire-fighting capability

Alternate views of the Neptun’s engine room and its twin 7L27/38 four-stroke engines

Alternate views of the Neptun’s engine room and its twin 7L27/38 four-stroke engines

Alternate views of the Neptun’s engine room and its twin 7L27/38 four-stroke engines

Alternate views of the Neptun’s engine room and its twin 7L27/38 four-stroke engines

Shipyard’s GA drawing for ‘Cattleya’

Sanco Shipping, Norway has ordered the seismic vessel which will be powered by 4 × MAN 8L32/40 engines.

Archive photograph of the MAN 28/33D engine

The Volcán del Teide in action

The engine room of the Volcán del Teide featuring 4 × MAN 7L48/60CR

The LNG carrier Castillo de Santisteban is powered by five dual-fuel MAN 8L51/60DF engines

View of the engine room with its dual-fuel engines

Illustration of COTUNAV’s new RoPax ferry to be built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering of Korea

Four common-rail 12V48/60CR Tier-II propulsion engines from MAN Diesel & Turbo will power a new RoPax ferry for Tunisian ship owner COTUNAV (Compagnie Tunisienne de Navigation)

An Alpha VBS1800 propeller, similar to those in the COTUNAV order, pictured during assembly

David Deng (left) and Dr. Stephan Timmermann congratulate each other after the signing

The 32/44CR engine with SCR pictured during the setting-up of the MAN Diesel & Turbo stand in Hamburg

Simplified illustration of an MAN Diesel & Turbo engine with a DryEGCS system

A 7L51/60DF engine pictured at MAN Diesel & Turbo’s Augsburg works.

An LNG bilobe tank (support design patented by TGE).

Car deck of the Norwegian pendulum ferry M/F GEISNES operating for the Namsos Trafikselskab.

The 84 metre KVANNØY, one of Norway’s largest and most advanced fishing vessels – retrofitted with NOx reducing Humid Air Motor technology.

The HAM system – shown at KVANNØY’s control and monitoring display panel.

The MAN 6L32/44CR engine

Graphical rendering of one of the two new Fjord Lines ferries, each to be powered by four common-rail-based 10L32/44CR main-engines, along with three L21/31 auxiliary generating-sets and two RENK gearboxes

The 20V28/33D prototype engine on the test bed in St. Nazaire

Alternate view of the 20V28/33D

View of the engine room aboard the José María Entrecanales showing two of the MAN 9L48/60B main engines

Alternate view of the engine room aboard the José María Entrecanales

The José María Entrecanales at dock in Las Palmas

The new ro-ro vessel at dock in Tenerife

MAN Diesel 32/40 engines pictured within the Simon Stevin’s engine room

Aerial view of La Naval de Sestao shipyard

The VB Bravo pictured during sea trials

The VB Titán and VB Trón pictured during construction at Boluda Shipyards – Unión Naval Valencia

The Solan pictured during construction

The Bonxie pictured during launching at Boluda Shipyards - Unión Naval Valencia

Illustration of the new Ropax vessel

The SCR retrofit pictured during installation

Picture of the completed SCR installation

The Liv Knutsen at berth

An illustration of the general layout aboard the Playa de Azkorri

The Playa de Azkorri pictured in Bilbao, the Basque Country, a few days before travelling to the Canary Islands for sea-trials

The common-rail 8L32/44CR engine aboard the Playa de Azkorri

Hydraulic crane aboard the Playa de Azkorri

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

View of the 16V48/60B main engine within Cristóbal Colon’s engine room

F/V Jette Kristine upgraded on the slipway at MAN PrimeServ Frederikshavn

Full pull – a full scale testing verifying the 23.5% bollard pull increase

Before the propeller blade and nozzle upgrade installation

After the propeller blade and nozzle upgrade installation

Owner Niels Arne Hounisen - flanked by Christian Juul (left) and Kenneth Boesen(right), both MAN Diesel & Turbo.

Jette Kristine

Model of the world's first power ship with large-bore diesel engines (photo composition).

Modell des weltweit ersten Kraftwerksschiffs mit Großdieselmotoren (Fotomontage).

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

The first production 51/60DF dual fuel engines recently completed their Factory Acceptance Testing at the MAN Diesel & Turbo works in Augsburg, Germany.

The MAN Diesel 51/60G gas engine offers market leading power density and efficiency.

Technical Data of the MAN Diesel 51/60G gas engine.

MAN Diesel 6L32/44CR inline six cylinder common rail engine under test with two-stage turbocharging including VTA technology and VVT.

Schematic arrangement of the MAN Diesel & Turbo Variable Miller Cycle with two-stage turbo charging on the 6L32/44CR engine.

KNUD RASMUSSEN (P570) in North Atlantic coastal service – powered by 2 x 8L27/38
Photo: SSG Tais Johansen

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

The engine control room of EJNAR MIKKELSEN (P571) during the preparations before commissioning

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.

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.

The first production 51/60DF dual-fuel engines recently completed their Factory Acceptance Testing at the MAN Diesel & Turbo works in Augsburg, Germany.

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.

With a handshake Jari Kujala of Aker Yards, Finland (right) and Prof. Dr. Wolfram Lausch of MAN Diesel & Turbo seal a major contract for propulsion and onboard power equipment centring on MAN Diesel & Turbo type 48/60CR and 21/31 engines.

These engines achieve best-in-class power output and absolute safety while snorkelling via a unique system pairing a supercharger with a turbocharger.

The PA4 V 200 SMDS from MAN Diesel & Turbo with its unqiue combination of supercharging and turbo-charging is used in French "Scorpène" class conventional submarines.

The PrimeServ Center in Valencia was inaugurated in July 2008. Read the press release here.

The PrimeServ Center in Valencia was inaugurated in July 2008. Read the press release here.

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.

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.

Read the technical data for L58/64 here.

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.

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

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.

MAN PrimeServ’s spare part kits have been well received on the engine and turbocharger aftermarket.

As well as the MAN 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.

Assessing engine and turbocharger spares requirements will be an important theme in the tuition and qualification provided at MAN Diesel PrimeServ Academies.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The launching of the Natchan Rera, the first vessel in the new 112 metre Incat catamaran series.

The Natchan Rera, the first vessel in the new 112 metre Incat catamaran series with MAN Diesel engines.

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.

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.

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.

The MAN Diesel 32/44CR engine showing the positions of the pumps and rails in the MAN Diesel common rail system.

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.

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.

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.

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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M/S BANASA crossing the Straits of Gibraltar

'Flying Squads' ready on the car deck of BANASA with a fully equipped 40 containerised workshop and spare parts stock

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

Engine block dismantled and hoisted from the bedplate via the car deck crane arrangement

The damaged crankshaft is released from the block

The damaged crankshaft is released from the block and hoisted to car deck. Line boring of the engine block is performed on site

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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The M/S SUNNAN, owned by the company Gustus AB, Gteborg
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The passenger liner Queen Elizabeth 2, powered by nine 9L58/64 engines.

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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The 58/64 is the largest four-stroke engine in MAN B&W Diesel's programme

Engine V32/40 on the testbed in Augsburg

The engine 48/60B combined the successful model 48/60 with advanced technology.

The vessel Alexander von Humboldt

The vessel Annemieke

Engine L40/54 on the testbed in Augsburg

Engine L58/64 on the testbed in Augsburg

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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