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- First Allison Gas Turbine Genset Shipped For DDG-51 Installation Maritime Reporter, May 1989 #48
Genset Performs Well In Shock Tests The first of Allison Gas Turbine's new generator sets has been shipped to Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, for installation in the lead ship of the U.S. Navy's Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) Class destroyers. The model AG9130 ship service gas turbine generator will provide all shipboard electrical power on the new destroyers.
The generator set is a result of a design and production contract with Bath Iron Works. The U.S. Navy contracted with Bath Iron Works in 1985 to design and construct the lead ship in the Arleigh Burke Class.
Allison and Bath have an agreement for the generator sets for the follow ships.
The shipment to BIW follows the successful completion of qualification tests on the generator set. One of the most stringent, the shock test, was passed in June 1988.
The generator set was subjected to 60 pound dynamite charges at four different ranges during float barge testing in an abandoned Virginia quarry. "There was no damage at all. No rework or redesign was necessary. That's very unusual for this type of equipment," said A1 Wells, manager of marine sales at Allison.
The generator set incorporates a redesigned Allison engine capable of producing up to 3,000 kilowatts of electrical power on a 100-degree day with 12 percent improved fuel economy.
The AG9130 generator sets are powered by Allison 501-K34 engines, a marine deriative of the U.S.
Navv's T56-A-427 turboprop en- gine. The T56 has been in production since the 1950s. The 501-K34 is the fourth generation version of this engine.
Allison Gas Turbine is division of General Motors and is based in Indianapolis, Ind.
For free literature detailing the marine gas turbines from Allison Gas Turbine, Circle 96 on Reader Service Card
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- Allison Gas Turbines Will Power World's Fastest Patrol Boat Maritime Reporter, Apr 1985 #111
and innovative designer of airplanes and fast patrol craft. The H-3 (shown above) is a water jet, three-engine vessel powered by Detroit Diesel Allison gas turbine engines driving water jets supplied by KaMeWa AB of Sweden, through Cincinnati Gear Company's epicyclic reduction gears. The patrol
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- Allison I m p l e m e n t s Performance, M a i n t e n a n c e , Reliability Improvements In M a r i n e Gas Turbines Maritime Reporter, Jul 15, 1986 #50
The Allison Gas Turbine Division of General Motors has extended its product improvement efforts to the 501-KF and 570-KF marine gas turbine engines for increased reliability and maintainability of these highpower density, simple-cycle units. 501-KF The 501-KF engine is successfully used in the
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- Garrett Division To Participate In Design Of New Engine For Mid-Sized Navy Ships Maritime Reporter, Mar 1986 #68
The U.S. Navy has selected a team composed of The Garrett Corporation's AiResearch Manufacturing Company, Allison Gas Turbine Engine Division of General Motors, and Rolls Royce for the conceptual design of an intercooled and regenerated advanced technology gas turbine engine for propelling the Navy's
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- Stewart & Stevenson Gets Navy Contracts Totaling $23.7 Million Maritime Reporter, Sep 1980 #40
or amphibious forces. Stewart & Stevenson has also received a $3,150,000 follow-on contract from the Navy to provide three 2,000-kw Detroit Diesel Allison gas turbine generator sets for the new Spruance-class destroyer. Stewart & Stevenson has provided the generator sets on all Spruance-class destroyers
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- Stewart & Stevenson Open London Office; Knapp Named Manager Maritime Reporter, Jan 15, 1974 #38
field service equipment, emergency standby power units for all industries, electrical and pneumatic ground support units for commercial airlines, Allison gas turbines and automatic transmissions, Pow-R-Quik air starting motors for all makes of engines, irrigation systems, specially "packaged" commercial
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- THE LATEST ADVANCEMENTS IN PROPULSION SYSTEMS FOR TODAY'S NAVIES Maritime Reporter, Sep 1988 #40
Diesel and Gas Turbine) arrangement, which couples the 6,000-shp LM500 with two 2,700-bhp MTU 16V396 diesel engines driving three propellers. The Allison Gas Turbines Division of GM is another large supplier of marine gas turbine engines to international navies. Allison 570-KF marine gas turbines
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- THE PROPULSION SYSTEM: HEART OF TODAY'S NAVY VESSEL Maritime Reporter, Sep 1990 #39
the number of navies using LM2500s to 22. The gas turbine generator set aboard the Arleigh Burke destroyer uses the Allison 501-K34 engine from Allison Gas Turbine, Military Industrial Engines, Indianapolis, Ind., to produce 2500 kilowatts of shipboard electrical power. Significant AG9130 design
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- MAJOR NAVY CONTRACTS Maritime Reporter, Jul 15, 1986 #11
Shipbuilding. Conversion and Repair, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N62791-86-B-0082). General M o t o r s C o r p o r a t i o n , Allison Gas T u r b i n e Division. Indianapolis, Ind., is being awarded a $ 3 9 , 9 8 3 , 8 9 5 fixed-price contract to design, develop, fabricate, test
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