MAN Diesel engine completes ethane trials

摘要

MAN Diesel & Turbo has announced that gas trials of the worlds first gas injection ethane engine (ME-GIE) onboard the liquefied ethane gas carrier Gaschem Beluga have been a success. The two-stroke Mitsui-MAN B&W 7G50ME-C9.5-GIE unit is the first in a series of two engines serving as the main propulsion for two 36,000m~3 LEG carriers ordered by Hartmann Reederei of Germany and Ocean Yield of Norway. The engines were built at Sinopacific Offshore Engineering (SOE) in Qidong, China.