100th PMI Auto-tuning Retrofit Package Sold
Automatic control of combustion pressure
offers significant advantages
Copenhagen,
22/01/2015
MAN Diesel & Turbo SE
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MAN PrimeServ, MAN Diesel & Turbo’s service division, has announced the
100th sale of its PMI (Pressure Measuring Instrument) Auto-tuning retrofit
package. The ‘MSC Filippa’, a 2011-built, 13,400-teu container ship owned by
Germany’s Peter Döhle Group, will be retrofitted to accommodate the system.
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Hagen Koslowski, Technical Director of Peter Döhle Schiffahrts-KG, said:
“The main driver for us in ordering PMI Auto-tuning was to reduce fuel
consumption and therefore become more attractive to the charter market.
Taking a broader view, the CO2 reduction and our environmental
responsibility, paired with our trust in MAN products, also played key roles in
the decision.”
Previous experience
The Peter Döhle Group has previous experience with PMI Auto-tuning, having
recently installed it aboard a series of 6,800-teu vessels – MV ‘Pangal’, MV
‘Puelche’ and MV ‘Petrohue’ – equipped with MAN B&W 10K98MEC-7 lowspeed engines. Of their experience with this, Koslowski said: “On all our
vessels, the system runs reliably. The PMI works really well and adjustments
can be seen on the CoCoS computer and MOP, while engine parameters are
always at the optimal value.”
Koslowski also praised an “outstanding performance” by MAN PrimeServ’s
service engineers who installed, commissioned and pre-adjusted the PMI
Auto-tuning system aboard the container fleet. He added: “With the PMI
system in place, we observed an SFOC drop on our engines using
Bluetraker® performance monitoring. In the long term, our main expectations
are extended TBOs and a smaller workload for our crews as engine
performance will be permanently, automatically optimised.
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Autotuning
PMI Autotuning measures the pressure in a cylinder’s combustion chamber
through online sensors. These automatically send signals in real time and the
data is used to automatically adjust the cylinders for optimal performance. The
system replaces the older PMI Offline and Online systems.
Christian Ludwig – Head of Retrofit & Upgrade – MAN Diesel & Turbo, said:
“We introduced our first PMI Autotuning system in 2010 as a result of the
possibilities arising from the launch of MAN Diesel & Turbo’s electronic MEengines in 2005. The strong sales performance of our Autotuning package
shows how successfully the market has taken to it. So much so, in fact, that
we recently decided to make it standard on our newbuilding engines.” In fact,
MAN PrimeServ reports that many owners of newbuilding engines that have
featured PMI Autotuning as standard have been inspired to retrofit the rest of
their fleet with the system after observing its effectiveness in the field.
Ludwig also states that the next development within PMI Autotuning is ‘PMI
VIT’ for its MC engines. MAN Diesel & Turbo introduced the first prototype
system in 2013 that uses PMI data to adjust the VIT (Variable Injection
Timing) system to get an optimal combustion pressure. Ludwig said: “With
PMI VIT, we are addressing our sizable, mechanical MC-portfolio of engines
and aiming to emulate that which PMI Autotuning has achieved with electronic
engines.”
Benefits
PMI Autotuning offers a number of advantages:
•
confirmed fuel savings of 1-3 g/kW
•
contributes to engine safety by eliminating excessive cylinder
pressures
•
offers better combustion with less stress to the engine and a
commensurate reduction in maintenance
•
real-time surveillance that reduces engine maintenance.
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About Peter Döhle Schiffahrts-KG
The Peter Döhle Group is one of the leading providers of shipping services
worldwide with core competences in chartering and the sale and purchase of
ships. Founded in 1956 in Hamburg, the company operates a modern fleet of
some 500 container vessels, multi-purpose vessels and bulk carriers. The
company also owns about 100 vessels and part-owns a further 100 or so units
including container vessels with a capacity of 600 up to 13,000 teu.
MAN Diesel & Turbo’s PMI Autotuning system automatically adjusts the pressure in the
combustion chambers of an engine’s cylinders for optimal running. A screen shot from the PMI
Autotuning user interface
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A 3D rendering of a cylinder/combustion chamber
About MAN Diesel & Turbo
MAN Diesel & Turbo SE, based in Augsburg, Germany, is the world’s leading provider of large-bore diesel engines and
turbomachinery for marine and stationary applications. It designs two-stroke and four-stroke engines that are manufactured both
by the company and by its licensees. The engines have power outputs ranging from 450 kW to 87 MW. MAN Diesel & Turbo also
designs and manufactures gas turbines of up to 50 MW, steam turbines of up to 150 MW and compressors with volume flows of
up to 1.5 million m³/h and pressures of up to 1,000 bar. The product range is rounded off by turbochargers, propellers, gas
engines and chemical reactors. MAN Diesel & Turbo’s range of goods includes complete marine propulsion systems,
turbomachinery units for the oil & gas as well as the process industries and complete power plant solutions. Customers receive
worldwide after-sales services marketed under the MAN PrimeServ brand. The company employs around 14,500 staff at more
than 100 international sites, primarily in Germany, Denmark, France, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, India and China. MAN
Diesel & Turbo is a company in the Power Engineering business area of MAN SE.
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