Osaka, Japan- headquartered Yanmar Holdings has actually obtained an order from Mitsui O.S.K.Lines Ltd (MOL) for double gas 8EY26LDF engines. The engines will certainly be utilized to power generators aboard Japan’s initial 2 LNG-fueled ferryboats (provisionally called Sunflower Kurenai as well as Sunflower Murasaki). As we reported previously, the ferryboats are to be developed at Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd.’s Shimonoseki Shipyard.
Ferry Sunflower (a team business of MOL) will certainly charter the ferryboats after distribution as well as introduce them on its Osaka-Beppu course from completion of 2022 with the initial fifty percent of 2023, as substitutes for vessels presently in solution.
Yanmar states that 8EY26LDF engines constantly keep optimal burning, with functions such as tons change monitoring, velocity efficiency, as well as high thermal effectiveness, along with accuracy air-fuel proportion control innovation. Moving ahead, YANMAR will certainly proceed aiming to minimize ecological effect, as well as establish tidy aquatic powertrains to supply ideal services that fulfill the requirements of our consumers.
- Engine version: 8EY26LDF
- Engine ranked power: 1,730 kW
- Generator capability: 1,600 kWe
- No of cyndrical tubes: 8
- Cylinder birthed x stroke: 260 × 385 mm
- Displacement: 163.5 L
- Speed: 720 RPM
- Fuel; LNG (dissolved gas)/ Marine diesel