MAN Diesel

The MAN Diesel SE was a subsidiary of MAN SE, based in Augsburg. It went on through a merger with MAN Turbo AG in the MAN Diesel & Turbo SE January 1, 2010. Were produced, among others, the world's largest and most powerful diesel engines, mainly used on ships, but also in power plants. In Hamburg, the MAN diesel engine factory in Hamburg served as a workshop for ship engines, which waited there, were overhauled and repaired.

A competitor of MAN Diesel was the Wärtsilä Corporation (Finnish Oy Wärtsilä ).

History

MAN Diesel had a great tradition in diesel engine. Rudolf Diesel developed the first diesel engine in 1897 in Augsburg. The Danish Burmeister & Wain subsidiary with headquarters in Copenhagen was purchased in the 1980s. More diesel producers were acquired since then, including the Danish Alpha Diesel Frederikshavn. Until 1 September 2006, the company operated under the name of MAN B & W Diesel AG. On 14 July 2009 the merger was given with MAN Turbo AG Division Power Engineering known. The merger was ( retroactively as of January 1 ) completed on 26 March 2010 with the entry of MAN Diesel and Turbo SE in the commercial register of Augsburg.

Products

The plant in Augsburg designed and manufactured diesel engines for ship propulsion and power plants with a capacity between 430 kW and 97,300 kW. Delivered this be by truck - heavy transport to the Neckar - Heilbronn port.

MAN supplied complete drive systems with gear and propeller. The Danish subsidiary in Copenhagen designed two-stroke diesel engines, which were mainly used as a ship's main engines. They were in the world, built by Danish engineering drawings and patterns but primarily in Asia (Japan, Korea, China, Vietnam). The biggest engines came from Korean shipyards for many years. For many years, these were in-line engines with seven, eight and nine cylinders, and later twelve- and fourteen- cylinder with up to 97,300 kW power were available. These engines always differed only in performance, number of cylinders and length. Their cross-section and the components were always the same in a strict modular system.

The bore of the largest engine series K108 Con t 1080 mm, 2660 mm, the stroke which such an engine with over 14 meters high and about seven meters wide, with lengths up to 32 meters has a footprint as comparable to a single family home or a duplex. This type of engine weighs 2800 tons, bringing its maximum power at a speed of 97 revolutions per minute. Its fuel consumption is low in the variant as L2 (reduced peak power with 162 g / kWh). B & W engines were also built in the PRC.

The specialty of the German part of the company were medium-speed four-stroke diesel engines. Biggest engine was at the time the merger is an eighteen- cylinder V- engine with 22,600 kW. Even in lower performance classes with four-stroke engines it was able to deliver at MAN, the product reached down to engines of about 430 kW. The smallest four-stroke engine had a bore of 160 mm and a stroke of 240 mm. The underlying market segment, such as for truck engines, was covered by the sister company MAN engines.

The variable pitch propeller built by MAN attained a diameter up to 7.3 m and a weight of 77.2 tons.

Scope of consolidation

The MAN Diesel SE was the parent company of the subgroup (MAN Diesel Group), which consisted of a manufacturing company for marine engines, propellers, turbochargers, diesel generators and power plants.

Major consolidated subsidiaries of MAN Diesel SE were:

• MAN Diesel SE, Copenhagen, Denmark
• MAN Diesel Ltd, Stockport, United Kingdom
• MAN Diesel SAS, Villepinte, France
• MAN Diesel ( Singapore) Pte. Ltd.. , Singapore
• MAN Diesel Australia Pty. Ltd.. , Sydney, Australia
• MAN Diesel Canada Ltd.. , Oakville, Canada
• MAN Diesel North America Inc., New York, USA
• MAN Diesel India Ltd.. , Aurangabad, India
• Diesel Services GmbH Rostock, Rostock, Germany
• PBS Turbo, Velka Bites, Czech Republic

Others

For a series of five container ships whose type is the ship COSCO Guangzhou, MAN Diesel SE, developed in 2006 under the name K98 MC 's first diesel engine with more than 100,000 hp ( 73,500 kW). A variant of the 14K98MC7 with 116 875 hp ( 87,200 kW), 2008 was the strongest marine engine in the world, but has not been installed at this time.