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Danish Prince Joachim opens the new test center.

”The site Frederikshavn is the expert reviewing one of the big MAN gensets, center of MAN Diesel & Turbo for the engine a 16 cylinder common rail small bore engine production and ma- engine type MAN 16V32/44CR.

rine system competence (control lever The test center is able to recover the & propellers). Deliveries of MAN 175D energy from the engine testing for the engines will start in the early months bene? t of the local community. This is of 2016,” he said. ”During early 2015, part of the companies targets on energy the ? rst major inspection of one of the ef? ciency and environmental sustain- prototype engines was carried out, in ability. As Dr. Lauber said: ”We convert which the engine was stripped com- the energy from the test center, which pletely apart. The inspection showed would otherwise just go to waste, and very good results, signaling that the as a ? rst step, we use it to heat at least engines are ready for the ? rst customer 200 households via the district-heating projects. In summary, the engine vali- network.” dation program is on track and hence, The MAN 16V32/44CR engine has several 1000 hours of validation could an output power of 9,600 kW and the be ensured before the ? rst engines are electrical output is about 9,400 kWe in operation. We are sure that we can from the generator (GenSet power at thereby demonstrate a high standard of 100%). This corresponds to 13,500 HP. reliability from day one”. The complete GenSet weighs 140 tons.

On the inclination test bench is a

The Opening Event MAN 7L35/44DF. Engine and genera-

Around 150 MAN business partners tor assembled and tested on a common witnessed the inauguration ceremony of baseframe – as a complete GenSet, the new Test Center, which was of? cial- shipped and delivered to the customer ly opened by Danish Prince Joachim. as one unit.

Prince Joachim was clearly impressed The engine output power is 3,570 kW (510 kW/cyl) when running at 720 rpm, 60 Hz. The electrical generator output is of 3,470 kWe. The fuels burned in this dual fuel engine are both diesel and gaseous fuels.

Heat Exchange to the City Grid

Waste energy from engine testing is the main protagonist in Test Center

Frederikshavn’s heat recycling sys- tem. The waste energy is converted to hot water, which heats up homes in the city of Frederikshavn. This way, the inhabitants of Frederikshavn not only bene? ts from having an international knowledge and service company in its midst, with the resulting demand for lo- cal jobs and regional trade, 200 families will also bene? t directly from MDT’s engine testing. The maximum heat transfer is around 10,000 kW. Deliv- ered energy to the city grid since com- missioning early 2015: approx 2,265

MWh – corresponding to heating of 120 households. The annual target for

Visit us at Workboat Booth #1349 2015 will be 200 households. When in full swing (next two years) up to 1,000 households/yearly are heated.

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