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PROPULSION TECHNOLOGY — High Speed & Gas Turbine Engines [developing 7,080 kW (9,630 bhp) at 1,030 rpm] are now installed in the 282.1-ft. (86-m) Incat for Condor. Similar powerplants are specified for six 328-ft. (100-m) MDV 1200 Pegasus monohulls being built at Fincantieri for Sea

Containers' SuperSeaCats.

Caterpillar has achieved considerable suc- cess in this field, with many references for its 3616 model, which now delivers 5,650 kW (7,690 bhp) at 1,000 rpm from a lightened ver- sion.

This has resulted from parallel development by Empresa Nacional Bazan, at San Fernando, near Cadiz, where the 413.3-ft. (126-m) mono- hull Alhambra has just been launched, sched- uled for completion in October. This fast ferry (designed to carry 1,250 passengers and 244 cars) has six of these uprated engines. Four of its engines drive KaMeWa size 112SII waterjets in the wings. Two of the engines are twin- geared, and drive an 140BII in the center trans- mission. This is done through Geislinger com- posite material couplings and Reintjes light- weight reduction gears.

Alhambra is for a good Bazan customer,

Buquebus of Buenos Aires, who recently ordered two 252.6-ft. (77-m) fast ferries, the first of which will have two ABB STAL GT35 gas turbines. The second will be equipped with the first four 18-cylinder Caterpillar 3600

Series engines, reportedly developing 7,000 kW.

Two years ago MTU and the Detroit Diesel

Corporation announced a cooperation agree- ment for the joint development and manufac-

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