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Boeckhoff 2010-Operational Experience of The 51-60 DF From MAN
Boeckhoff 2010-Operational Experience of The 51-60 DF From MAN
PAPER NO.: 37
Operational experience of the 51/60 DF from MAN
Diesel SE
Nicolaus Boeckhoff, MAN Diesel & Turbo SE, Germany
Guenter Heider, MAN Diesel & Turbo SE, Germany
Paul Hagl, MAN Diesel & Turbo SE, Germany
Abstract: The 51/60DF engine is a new develop- 18 V 51/60DF engines for a stationary power plant in
ment of the MAN Diesel SE. 2009.
The design of the engine had to consider the mar-
In addition, an existing 48/60 engine which ran
ket requirements for Marine and Stationary applica-
more than 80000 operating hours with HFO was con-
tions. Driven by those market requirements the fo-
verted to the 51/60 DF technology. This power plant in
cus of the development was pointed on the efficiency,
Portugal allows, MAN Diesel SE to get field experience
emissions and fuel flexibility and a wide range of appli-
and to validate the 51/60DF technology.
cation possibilities. The first prototype engine started
its test run in 2006. During the one and a half years The paper will give an overview about the achieved
of testing period the engine components and engine results of the prototype engine operating on liquid fu-
parameters were optimized to fulfill the costumers els and gaseous fuels. The test carried out showed
demands. In addition, new technologies like a tur- a very good engine performance while switching from
bocharger with variable turbine area were introduced liquid fuel to gas operation. Even using HFO as fuel,
and tested. the MAN engine control was optimized, so that a di-
The final design was introduced to the serial rect change over without using an intermediate Fuel
production engines. The first inline engines for a for cleaning the combustion room is possible. After
174.000m3 LNG carrier passed successfully the fac- more then one year of operation the field test engine
tory acceptance test in December 2008 followed by is now showing an outstanding availability of 97%.
c
CIMAC Congress 2010, Bergen
INTRODUCTION
The new developed 51/60 DF engine serves mainly
Dual Fuel-Electric applications to generate power
and heat.
This paper will give a short overview over the Table 1 — Main engine specification 51/60 DF
51/60DF engine design and control as well as a
The 51/60DF engine operates in gaseous and liquid
description of the efficiency improvement in Gas
fuel mode. In gas mode the engine operates
operation and experience with the flexibility in
according to the lean-burn four stroke Otto
burning different fuels during the development
combustion process. The premixed lean gas/air
phase. The validation and availability of the
mixture is ignited by the compression ignition of a
51/60DF technology is pointed out using the
small quantity of injected MDO-pilot fuel into the
example of the to Duel fuel technology converted
main combustion room. The amount of this injected
power plant in Portugal.
pilot fuel is less than 1% of the full load liquid fuel
quantity. This ensures very low NOx-emissions in
MAIN PART the gas mode. In the liquid fuel mode, the fuel oil is
injected via the conventional main pumps known
The 51/60DF engine is based on the 48/60B HFO from the 48/60B–HFO engine. The thermodynamic
engine. Main parts like the design of Crankcase, working process is the four stroke diesel
crankshaft and connecting rod are taken over from combustion process. The range of usable fuel
the 48/60B engine. Figure 1 shows the main qualities in this fuel mode ranges from Marine
differences in engine design. The in red colored Diesel Oil (MDO) to Heavy fuel Oil (HFO) up to 700
components like Piston and liner are new cst @50°C.
respectively modified design for the 510 mm bore
DF engine.
Injector Area No. holes Angle Contrary to the CFD simulations for the pilot fuel
injector spray angle design, testing showed that the
1 100% 100% Base spray angle had a significant effect on the operating
2 200% 100% Base values. Figure 8 shows the effect of the spray angle
on efficiency in accordance with the injected fuel
3 200% 150% Base quantity. Through modifiing the spray angle of the
pilot fuel injector by 5° the efficiency increases by
Table 2: Pilot fuel injector configuration’s
one percentage point, for the same injected fuel
amount.
CR Common Rail
REFERENCES
(1) Optimierung von Gasmotoren durch
Einsatz variable Turboladergeometrie;
ATK 2008