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A tognum Group Brand<br />
<strong>MTU</strong>report<br />
The magazine of the <strong>MTU</strong> and <strong>MTU</strong> <strong>Onsite</strong> <strong>Energy</strong> brands I Issue 01 I 2012 I www.mtu-online.com<br />
High aspiration<br />
How turbochargers make such a difference<br />
Cheers!<br />
CHP modules and the art of beer brewing<br />
More than engines<br />
The importance of IT for support services
Editorial<br />
Joachim Coers, Chairman and CEO<br />
of Tognum AG and Chairman of<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> Friedrichshafen GmbH<br />
Dear Readers,<br />
What with electricity generator sets in Turkey and Ethiopia, dump trucks in South Africa, fire tenders<br />
in Brazil or research vessels in the USA, one thing becomes abundantly clear as you turn<br />
the pages of this issue of <strong>MTU</strong> Report – the Tognum Group and its core brands, <strong>MTU</strong> and <strong>MTU</strong><br />
<strong>Onsite</strong> <strong>Energy</strong>, are becoming increasingly international with an ever widening product portfolio.<br />
The once small, South-German diesel-engine maker based on the shores of Lake Constance,<br />
that sold its products primarily to the German Railways and the German Army, has turned into a<br />
globally-trading manufacturer of drive systems and energy plants. We now generate 85 percent<br />
of our revenue outside Germany and our range of products extends from diesel engines through<br />
complete propulsion systems to diesel generator sets and combined heat and power modules<br />
driven by gas engines. And we haven't finished yet, by a long chalk. Our new majority shareholders,<br />
Daimler and Rolls-Royce, are integrating the Bergen engine operation with its mediumspeed<br />
diesel engines and lean-mixture gas engines into our group of companies. Furthermore,<br />
the takeover of Bavarian genset manufacturer Aggretech increases the breadth of our localized<br />
energy plant business. Our production is becoming more international by the year as well. We<br />
have long since moved on from manufacturing and assembling only in Friedrichshafen and now<br />
have ten production facilities spread around the globe. Next year we will be opening a factory in<br />
Poland where we plan to make components for our<br />
Series 2000 and Series 4000 engines.<br />
But the foundation of our business, now as ever, is development. Our aim is to remain the<br />
leaders in technology. That is why we invested 215 million euro in research and development<br />
last year – more than ever before. We want to make our engines even more economical and<br />
efficient – as our clients demand. A decisive contributor in that regard is the turbocharger. Our<br />
founder, Karl Maybach, developed his first turbocharger for one of his engines 50 years ago.<br />
Today, <strong>MTU</strong> engines are inconceivable without turbochargers. They give the engines their<br />
distinctive character and contribute substantially to economy and emission characteristics.<br />
Turbos are so important that we have made them the cover story of this issue.<br />
Enjoy reading this issue of <strong>MTU</strong> Report. And I hope you will be inspired by the fascinating<br />
stories about the uses of our engines and energy systems all over the world.<br />
Best regards<br />
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Contents<br />
32 36 42<br />
50<br />
02 Editorial<br />
Technology<br />
Development<br />
04 High aspiration<br />
Turbochargers not only look impressive,<br />
they also give each engine its own unmistakable<br />
character as well as influencing its<br />
efficiency and emissions signature.<br />
12 News<br />
Action<br />
Oil & Gas<br />
18 Submerged treasure<br />
Demand for oil and gas is rising but the<br />
remaining reserves are deeper and deeper<br />
below the oceans. So new technologies<br />
are constantly required to locate, extract<br />
and distribute fossil fuels.<br />
Industry<br />
24 The extinguishers<br />
Brazil plays host to the Football World Cup<br />
in 2014. In preparation, the country is not<br />
only redeveloping its international stadia;<br />
it is also investing billions in improving the<br />
airports.<br />
Front cover: A macro-image of the compressor<br />
wheel from a turbocharger shows the level of precision<br />
machining needed to produce an engine component<br />
capable of withstanding the pressure at<br />
98,000 revolutions per minute.<br />
Mining<br />
26 Platinic affair<br />
Vehicles powered by <strong>MTU</strong> engines<br />
extract platinum at the Modikwa Mine in<br />
South Africa.<br />
Marine<br />
32 Invades from the deepth<br />
The research vessels Kaho and Muskie<br />
protect the ecological equilibrium of the<br />
Great Lakes in northeastern USA.<br />
<strong>Energy</strong><br />
36 Cheers!<br />
Two modular CHP plants at the Durst Malz<br />
malting works dry out the malt for use in<br />
beer brewing.<br />
42 <strong>Energy</strong> sights<br />
An <strong>MTU</strong> guide to the Turkish capital,<br />
Istanbul. The tour starts from the ferries<br />
that cross the Bosporus and ends<br />
at the offices of the telecommunications<br />
provider Turk Telekom.<br />
Spectrum<br />
After-sales<br />
50 More than engines<br />
Interview with an <strong>MTU</strong> Service Manager<br />
in which he reveals his aims, the latest<br />
trends in support services and what fascinates<br />
him about his job.<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> Report Europe<br />
Industry<br />
54 The tale of the Tiger and the Mouse<br />
Beasts of burden: the Tiger beet harvester<br />
digs the beets out of the ground before<br />
the Mouse loader deposits them in a truck.<br />
<strong>Energy</strong><br />
58 River current<br />
A massive dam is under construction<br />
in Ethiopia that will eventually supply<br />
15,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity. But<br />
until it is finished, the building site needs<br />
just that – electricity. Gensets driven by<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> engines fill the gap.<br />
Development<br />
62 Internal flight<br />
A 3D fly-through inside a rail engine explains<br />
the technologies that make <strong>MTU</strong><br />
diesel engines clean and efficient.<br />
63 Talking of...<br />
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Technologies that make a difference: turbochargers<br />
Aesthetic lines. Sculpted forms and contours, finely crafted details, glittering surfaces<br />
– it looks so good you could almost hang it around your neck on a chain. No, we are<br />
not talking about an expensive piece of jewelry, it’s the impeller from a turbocharger.<br />
When engine developers get onto the subject of turbochargers, their eyes glaze over as<br />
they effuse adoringly about what they call one of the engine’s most important parts.<br />
Are they right?<br />
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Development<br />
It isn’t easy for a diesel engine. To start, it first<br />
has to get its flywheel moving, a large steel disc<br />
that takes a while to set in motion. Only when<br />
that is going, do things start to happen. But then<br />
all the more so, because that is when the turbochargers<br />
come into play. Inside a few milliseconds,<br />
they suck in air, compress it and blast it<br />
into the combustion chamber.<br />
“The turbochargers are what give our engines<br />
their power,” says Ronald Hegner, who leads the<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> turbocharger design team. And he quickly<br />
adds that, much more than that, “They give the<br />
engines their unmistakable character, and affect<br />
their economy, dynamic response and emissions.”<br />
A lot for a single engine component to<br />
be responsible for. And reason enough to take<br />
a closer look at this key contributor.<br />
What exactly makes the turbocharger what it<br />
is? Put simply, the turbocharger is the engine’s<br />
lungs. It gives it its athletic power and makes<br />
sure that performance can continually be improved<br />
without increasing cylinder capacity. That<br />
is because the turbocharger pumps the air into<br />
the engine’s combustion chambers. The better<br />
it does so, the more oxygen there is available for<br />
combustion. More oxygen means more<br />
of the fuel can be burned. And more complete<br />
fuel combustion means higher power output. So,<br />
in short, the actual purpose of the turbocharger<br />
is to draw in as much air as possible, compress it<br />
and deliver it to the engine. And the best part is,<br />
to do so, the turbocharger effectively uses “waste<br />
energy”. Thirty percent of the energy contained<br />
in the fuel is simply expelled into the atmosphere<br />
as exhaust. So it makes perfect sense to utilize<br />
that energy for turbocharging. It is the flow of exhaust<br />
that drives the turbocharger’s turbine. On<br />
the opposite side of the turbocharger and rigidly<br />
attached to the turbine by a common shaft<br />
is the impeller with its aerodynamically shaped<br />
blades that draw in air and force it under pressure<br />
through the intercooler and into the cylinders.<br />
So is the familiar expression “to fire up the turbo”<br />
the right way of describing what you do when<br />
you need to put your foot on the gas? No, you<br />
don’t fire up the turbo, it is actually the other way<br />
around. The turbocharger “fires up” the engine by<br />
giving it a boost of extra power. “The turbochargers<br />
are among the engine’s key components.<br />
They are so decisive that whenever higher specific<br />
requirements and more power are demanded<br />
we always develop and produce them ourselves,”<br />
Hegner recounts.<br />
The geometry of the impeller is<br />
decisive for the characteristics<br />
of the engine because it is the<br />
impeller that forces the air into<br />
the engine.<br />
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The main components of a turbocharger<br />
are the turbine and the impeller. They<br />
are mounted on opposite ends of a common<br />
shaft. The turbine is driven by the<br />
thermal and kinetic energy of the exhaust<br />
from the engine. On the opposite<br />
side of the turbocharger, the aerodynamically<br />
shaped blades of the impeller draw<br />
in air and force it under pressure through<br />
the intercooler and into the cylinders.<br />
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Design<br />
diversity<br />
Speed of rotation<br />
…revolutions per minute is the speed at which<br />
the impeller of an <strong>MTU</strong> Series 2000 turbocharger<br />
spins around its own axis. Blindingly fast compared<br />
to the 2,450 rpm of the crankshaft. But<br />
even though that figure is impressive, the speed<br />
of rotation is not the decisive factor. Much more<br />
important is the peripheral velocity. If the impeller<br />
were rolling along the ground, it would travel<br />
virtually 600 meters in one second. That is more<br />
than twice as fast as a commercial airliner. By that<br />
reckoning, an impeller could travel the distance<br />
from the Earth to the moon in only one week. Of<br />
course, such speeds place enormous stresses on<br />
the materials. So the <strong>MTU</strong> developers use threedimensional<br />
computer modeling to simulate the<br />
airflow and mechanical structure loadings on the<br />
turbocharger from an early stage in the design<br />
process.<br />
…different turbocharger models are developed and<br />
manufactured at the <strong>MTU</strong> lead facility in Friedrichshafen.<br />
The different engine sizes alone make variations<br />
in turbocharger design necessary. But even<br />
within a design series, the developers adapt the<br />
turbochargers to the specific requirements of the<br />
individual applications. Thus electricity generator<br />
engines, which are run constantly at the same<br />
speed, need a different turbocharger setup than<br />
vehicle engines. Because, unlike a generator engine,<br />
a vehicle engine is not run constantly at one<br />
speed but rather over a wide range of speeds. It<br />
has to deliver high performance from idling speed<br />
right through to maximum revs. The challenge in<br />
that is to dimension the turbocharger exactly for<br />
the type of use. Therefore, for engines for mobile<br />
applications, <strong>MTU</strong> has designed the turbochargers<br />
to deliver sufficient boost pressure while covering<br />
as broad a range of engine speeds as possible. The<br />
variable parameters in design development are features<br />
such as the pitch of the turbine and impeller<br />
blades or the size of the housings.<br />
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Development<br />
Sequential<br />
TUrbocharging<br />
...turbocharger groups are used on the 20-cylinder<br />
version of the Series 1163 marine engine.<br />
Each group consists of a high-pressure<br />
turbocharger and a low-pressure turbocharger.<br />
When the vessel is only moving slowly and the<br />
engine speeds are correspondingly low, the boost<br />
pressure is generated by only one of the turbocharger<br />
groups. As speeds gradually increase,<br />
the other turbochargers are brought successively<br />
into action. They then provide sufficient mass air<br />
flow and pressure for higher engine speeds and<br />
power outputs. Using the principle of sequential<br />
turbocharging, the various turbochargers can<br />
be matched precisely to their specific operating<br />
range. Especially in the case of highly dynamic<br />
applications such as yachts – which demand fast<br />
acceleration – that is a decisive aspect. Ships<br />
can accelerate extremely quickly with this engine<br />
as there are large amounts of intake air available<br />
right from low power levels.<br />
The turbine and the impeller spin<br />
around their own axis at a speed<br />
of 98,000 revolutions per minute.<br />
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Surface<br />
TEMperature<br />
…degrees Celsius (1562° F) is the surface temperature<br />
of the turbine housing on a military<br />
vehicle engine when the turbo is spooled up to<br />
maximum speed. To stop it overheating at such<br />
temperatures, it is made of ultra heat-resistant<br />
material. “For turbos that are subject to especially<br />
high thermal stresses, we even make the<br />
impellers out of titanium,” explains production<br />
manager Wilfried Kempter. On some turbocharger<br />
versions, the impeller housing is water cooled to<br />
prevent the surface temperatures getting too hot.<br />
On turbochargers used in marine applications,<br />
the turbine is also housed in a water-cooled<br />
connecting block.<br />
History<br />
...is the number of years <strong>MTU</strong> has been developing and producing<br />
its own turbochargers. The Maybach Type MD 650 diesel was the first<br />
of the company’s engines to have a turbocharger developed in-house.<br />
Though the first turbocharged fast-running large-scale diesel engine, the<br />
Maybach GO6, was developed nearly 80 years ago by Karl Maybach, founder<br />
of Maybach-Motorenbau, the company from which <strong>MTU</strong> originated. In<br />
those days, however, the turbochargers were not made by Maybach but<br />
were supplied by the Swiss manufacturer Alfred Büchi.<br />
Boost pressure<br />
…bar is the air pressure inside the turbocharger. It doesn’t sound<br />
a lot when you think that a tire on a racing bicycle is inflated to as<br />
much as 11 bar. “Although higher boost pressures are entirely conceivable,<br />
it doesn’t make sense because the components would then be<br />
overstressed,” explains <strong>MTU</strong> developer Ronald Hegner. And, of course,<br />
the boost pressure is not the same for every engine. “It is one of the<br />
variables we can adjust to fine-tune the turbochargers to suit their applications,”<br />
Hegner adds.<br />
Every impeller that leaves<br />
the <strong>MTU</strong> production plant<br />
is examined for cracks on<br />
a special machine.<br />
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Development<br />
The impeller heats up the air so<br />
much when compressing it that<br />
it has to be cooled down again<br />
in the intercooler.<br />
Intercooling<br />
...degrees (518° F) is how hot the intake air<br />
gets when it is compressed by the turbocharger.<br />
But hot air takes up more space than<br />
cold air. So to deliver more air, and therefore<br />
more oxygen, to the engine, an intercooler lowers<br />
the air temperature to about 50 degrees Celsius<br />
(122° F). In a two-stage intercooling system there<br />
are even two intercoolers. The first is positioned<br />
between the low-pressure and the high-pressure<br />
turbocharger. That means the high-pressure turbo<br />
is supplied with cooler air and can compress<br />
it further.<br />
Cars<br />
...is the number of years since the first car with a<br />
turbocharged diesel engine appeared on the market<br />
in 1978 – and so a much shorter time than<br />
in the case of commercial vehicles. However, the<br />
Mercedes 300 SD was sold mainly in America.<br />
In Europe, the “turbo-diesel” didn’t make a breakthrough<br />
until the mid-1990s. But once established,<br />
the turbocharger and direct fuel injection<br />
gave the diesel engine an entirely new image. No<br />
longer was it the dependable but sluggish and<br />
noisy commercial vehicle engine – it was transformed<br />
into a fuel-efficient and punchy performer.<br />
To be able to withstand the<br />
enormous stresses, some impellers<br />
are even made of titanium.<br />
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Durability is also essential<br />
here: The thrust<br />
bearing takes the forces<br />
acting on the turbine and<br />
compressor wheels.<br />
…-stage regulated turbocharging is <strong>MTU</strong>’s ans-wer<br />
to the constantly lowering limits for the emission<br />
of soot particulates and nitrogen oxides. Instead<br />
of the intake air being compressed and delivered<br />
to the combustion chamber in a single stage by<br />
a turbocharger as before, it now passes through<br />
two turbocharger stages. First of all, the air is<br />
precompressed by a low-pressure turbocharger,<br />
then cooled by an intercooler before being further<br />
compressed by a high-pressure turbocharger.<br />
Controlled by an engine management<br />
system developed by <strong>MTU</strong> itself, this regulated<br />
turbocharging system ensures that the engine is<br />
always supplied with the same amount of air even<br />
when there is a lot of backpressure. Because<br />
higher backpressure is one of the side-effects of<br />
Two-stage turbocharging<br />
using emission-control technologies such as the<br />
Miller process, exhaust recirculation and diesel<br />
particulate filters. To put it simply, the turbocharger<br />
then has to force more air into the combustion<br />
chamber to provide the same amount of<br />
oxygen for combustion. In many cases, singlestage<br />
turbocharging is no longer capable of<br />
doing so.<br />
The first <strong>MTU</strong> engine to feature regulated twostage<br />
turbocharging is the new Series 4000 rail<br />
engine unveiled in 2010. With a cooled exhaust<br />
recirculation system and a diesel particulate filter,<br />
it meets the EU Stage 3B emission requirements<br />
in force from 2012. Regulated two-stage<br />
turbocharging is also definitely planned for<br />
future versions of the Series 1600, 2000 and<br />
4000 engines in other mobile applications such<br />
as construction and mining vehicles. For static<br />
applications such as electricity generators in<br />
which the demands on turbocharger dynamic<br />
response are not so high, the more economical<br />
single-stage turbocharging will continue to be<br />
used.<br />
The turbine and<br />
im-peller have to fit<br />
precisely inside the<br />
housing so that there<br />
are no pressure losses.<br />
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Development<br />
Production<br />
Time between overhauls<br />
…hours is how long the turbocharger on an <strong>MTU</strong><br />
rail engine can be run before it needs servicing.<br />
That is nearly three years even if the engine runs<br />
24 hours a day. On vehicles that have a very<br />
dynamically variable load profile, however, the<br />
turbochargers have to be serviced more frequently<br />
because the frequent load changes subject<br />
the materials to extreme stresses. Durability is a<br />
key consideration from the early stages of turbocharger<br />
development. They are analytically<br />
optimized using efficient computer modeling and<br />
simulation tools long before they are first tried<br />
out on the test bench. To simulate the structural<br />
and mechanical stresses on the turbo, for instance,<br />
the developers use methods such as<br />
three-dimensional computer modeling.<br />
…employees produced 7,600 turbochargers at<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> in 2011. “In recent years we have completely<br />
replaced the production machinery,” Wilfried<br />
Kempter relates, going on to explain that the special<br />
expertise was in the geometry of the turbine<br />
and impeller blades. The minutest changes can<br />
result in significantly less air being delivered to<br />
the combustion chamber. On some types of turbocharger,<br />
the geometry is even variable. That<br />
enables the power delivery and response characteristics<br />
of the turbocharger to adapt better<br />
to the engine operating conditions. The exhaust<br />
passes over adjustable guide vanes to the turbine<br />
blades so that the turbine spools up<br />
quickly at low engine speeds and subsequently<br />
allows high exhaust through-flow rates. Another<br />
important consideration is that the turbine and<br />
impeller have to fit precisely inside the housing.<br />
“We are talking about manufacturing tolerances<br />
measured in microns,” Kempter emphasizes.<br />
The gaps between the turbine housing and the<br />
turbine wheel must be absolutely exact if the air<br />
is to be used efficiently.<br />
Words: Lucie Dammann; Pictures: Robert Hack<br />
To find out more, contact:<br />
Roland Hegner, roland.hegner@mtu-online.com, Tel. +49 7541 90-2502<br />
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News<br />
Tognum CEO Joachim Coers talks about the cooperation<br />
between Daimler, Rolls-Royce and Tognum.<br />
“A great opportunity”<br />
Tognum’s new majority shareholders, Daimler and Rolls-Royce, own around 99% of the<br />
company’s shares. What changes have taken place since the takeover?<br />
First, the make-up of the Supervisory Board has changed. On the investors' side, Daimler and<br />
Rolls-Royce now have three representatives each. Our operative business is moving forward in<br />
parallel at full power and we have formed 15 working groups to drive forward the transition process.<br />
These have identified opportunities and projects, some of which are already being implemented.<br />
What sort of opportunities are involved here?<br />
We are looking at every area, from joint development through purchasing to production and sales.<br />
Expansion of our product range is also on the cards with the planned integration in the Tognum<br />
Group of medium-speed diesel engines and lean-mix gas engines from Bergen Engines.<br />
Which joint projects are already underway?<br />
In terms of concrete projects, Rolls-Royce is currently preparing the engine rooms of eight different<br />
offshore vessels so that <strong>MTU</strong> gensets can be precisely integrated in Rolls-Royce-designed ships.<br />
Initially they will generate on-board power with medium-speed diesels from Bergen providing the<br />
main propulsion. In the defense sector, we want to work together to meet the wishes of some of<br />
our customers on indigenous production. And we are already jointly producing quotations with<br />
Rolls-Royce for emergency power supply systems for atomic power stations.<br />
What changes will customers see?<br />
For one thing, as I just mentioned, our product portfolio will be wider. We are also looking at where<br />
we can expand our sales and service network in conjunction with Rolls-Royce. We want to offer our<br />
customers more products and more support at more locations throughout the world.<br />
What are your personal impressions of the cooperation between Tognum, Daimler and<br />
Rolls-Royce?<br />
I think it is very open and oriented toward achieving results. Innovation, quality and solutions for<br />
customers are cornerstones in the success of all three companies. And cooperation offers all three<br />
companies a great opportunity to move things forward.<br />
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The Tognum Group is to erect new production facilities in Stargard Szczeciñski in Poland, where in future Tognum’s subsidiary, <strong>MTU</strong> Polska, will manufacture<br />
components for <strong>MTU</strong> engines.<br />
New plant in Poland<br />
The Tognum Group is building a new facility<br />
in the western Polish town of Stargard Szczeciñski<br />
to extend its European production and<br />
development capacity and is investing over<br />
€90 million euros in the project. The first components<br />
for <strong>MTU</strong> engines are scheduled to be<br />
produced at the plant from the second half of<br />
2013. Together with production plant, the company<br />
is also building R&D facilities for mechanical<br />
and electronic engine components in<br />
Poland. In addition, Tognum is investing a similar<br />
sum in the lead plant in Friedrichshafen<br />
whilst a $40 million extension for the US plant<br />
in Aiken is also planned.<br />
“We expect to grow faster in future than<br />
the market. This will be due primarily to our<br />
new drive systems, which feature low fuel consumption<br />
and reduced emissions, in addition<br />
to long service life and extremely high performance,”<br />
said Dr. Ulrich Dohle, the member of<br />
the Tognum Executive Board responsible for<br />
Technology & Operations and Deputy Chairman,<br />
at a press conference in Warsaw. “With<br />
the expansion of our production capacity in Poland,<br />
therefore, we are creating a fundamental<br />
requirement for the growth we expect in the future,<br />
because our existing production facilities<br />
in Germany, the USA and China will not be enough.<br />
The new plant in Poland is also a key element<br />
of our global expansion strategy,” Dohle<br />
emphasised.<br />
From the middle of 2013, production output<br />
from the future plant in Stargard Szczeciñski will<br />
primarily include crankcases, cylinder heads and<br />
large-volume parts for Tognum’s <strong>MTU</strong> brand Series<br />
2000 and 4000 engines. They will be delivered to<br />
the assembly lines of the lead plant in Friedrichshafen<br />
(Germany) and to the plants in Aiken (USA)<br />
and Suzhou (China), where engines, drive and propulsion<br />
systems and energy systems are manufactured<br />
for the Tognum Group. In addition, Tognum<br />
is expanding its development capacity to Poland,<br />
where engineers and designers will develop and<br />
test engine components and electronic modules<br />
manufactured in the new plant that will be earmarked<br />
for engine control and automation systems.<br />
The first employees from Poland will be involved<br />
in preparing the site and erecting the plant. By the<br />
time the plant becomes fully opera-tional in 2015<br />
as scheduled, the Tognum Group will have increased<br />
its workforce to over 200 employees.<br />
The prerequisite for meeting the schedule is<br />
that all approvals from the relevant authorities are<br />
granted within the required timeframe. <strong>MTU</strong> Polska,<br />
the Tognum subsidiary that has since been<br />
formed, has already purchased a 20 hectare site<br />
for the erection of the plant near Stargard Szczeciñski.<br />
The tremendous potential that is avail-able<br />
in terms of specialists and the proximity to logistics<br />
hubs, such as major seaports, are two<br />
key location factors that speak in favour of Stargard<br />
as the new location.<br />
“The future plant is an important part of<br />
our global production network, which will subsequently<br />
become even more tightly knit and<br />
more flexible,” said Dohle. Tognum’s Friedrichshafen<br />
location, which is the largest in<br />
the network, has a key role to play, but offers<br />
only limited possibilities for further expansion.<br />
“Friedrichshafen will remain our lead plant for<br />
the key areas of research, development and<br />
production,” said Dr. Ulrich Dohle, CTO of<br />
Tognum AG, most emphatically. “Relocating<br />
part of our production to Stargard will create<br />
space on Lake Constance that will enable us to<br />
expand the remaining production and assembly<br />
lines.”<br />
Hamburg<br />
Germany<br />
Friedrichshafen<br />
Szczecin<br />
Stargard<br />
Szczeciñski<br />
Berlin<br />
Poland<br />
Czech Republic<br />
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News<br />
Navantia builds ships as well as producing <strong>MTU</strong> Series 396, 956<br />
and 1163 marine diesel engines under license in the Spanish<br />
city of Cartagena. This will also be the location for a new training<br />
center planned jointly with <strong>MTU</strong>.<br />
Joining forces<br />
with Navantia<br />
The Spanish shipbuilding company Navantia has signed a<br />
long-term strategic cooperation contract with <strong>MTU</strong>. The<br />
agreement widens the existing collaboration and further<br />
strengthens the long-established business relationship<br />
that the two companies have cultivated for 40 years.<br />
To complement the existing licensing contracts for the<br />
marketing and production of <strong>MTU</strong> Series 396, 956 and<br />
1163 marine engines, a shared training center is to be<br />
built. Located in Cartagena, the new center will provide<br />
training for <strong>MTU</strong> and Navantia clients, staff of Navantia<br />
and <strong>MTU</strong> Iberica, and service agents who maintain and<br />
service the engines. The two corporations are also planning<br />
to offer Navantia customers a maintenance concept<br />
covering the entire life of a ship. <strong>MTU</strong> will support the<br />
scheme through its customer service solutions for propulsion<br />
systems and its existing worldwide service network.<br />
Two multipurpose vessels belonging to the Dutch shipping company<br />
Smit Boskalis are each being fitted with two 12V 4000 M33S and two<br />
16V 4000 M33S Ironmen generator sets.<br />
Power of the iron men<br />
Tognum Asia is supplying eight power generation modules<br />
incorporating <strong>MTU</strong> Series 4000 “Iron Men” engines to the<br />
Chinese corporation Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry Co.<br />
Ltd. (ZPMC). They are to supply electricity for two 99-meter<br />
multipurpose vessels owned by the Dutch company Boskalis,<br />
which has one of the largest and most modern fleets in the<br />
world. Each ship will be equipped with two 12V 4000 M33S<br />
and two 16V 4000 M33S “Iron Men” gensets that supply<br />
7,000 kWe in synchronous operation. “Low fuel consumption<br />
and economi-cal servicing costs make the Series 4000 “Iron<br />
Men” one of the most cost-efficient engines in the world. The<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> “Iron Men” gensets also meet the latest IMO emissions<br />
regulations – with-out compromising on power or performance,”<br />
sets out Wouter Hoek of <strong>MTU</strong> Benelux, in explanation<br />
of the client’s choice. “Iron Men” engines can also be used<br />
either as main diesel propulsion units or to drive generators as<br />
part of diesel-electric systems.<br />
Paradise patrol<br />
Safe and serene. The coast of Mauritius will soon<br />
be guarded by a patrol boat with propulsion and<br />
automation systems supplied by <strong>MTU</strong>.<br />
To make Mauritius a safer place, the island nation’s government<br />
has ordered a new patrol boat. All of the ship’s propulsion system<br />
components will be supplied by <strong>MTU</strong>. The Type 20V 4000<br />
M93L engine and the Callosum automation system are made<br />
in Friedrichshafen. The new coastal craft will start<br />
service in 2014 performing search and rescue<br />
duties, providing logistical support for the<br />
outlying islands of Mauritius and taking<br />
part in police operations against<br />
smuggling, the drug trade and<br />
poaching.<br />
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Aggretech to become<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> <strong>Onsite</strong> <strong>Energy</strong> Systems<br />
Tognum has taken over 75.1 percent of the Bavarian manufacturer of<br />
power generator sets Aggretech. The company, which produces diesel and<br />
gas-engine based generators for the standard systems market, but also<br />
supplies customized solutions, will operate as <strong>MTU</strong> <strong>Onsite</strong> <strong>Energy</strong> Systems<br />
GmbH. The engine, generator and control system are mounted on specially<br />
constructed frames in individually designed energy centers. Aggretech sells<br />
its products worldwide.<br />
“The investment in Aggretech is consistent with our policy of expanding<br />
our decentralized energy plant business,” explains Tognum Chairman and<br />
CEO, Joachim Coers. To date, Tognum’s onsite energy strategy has been<br />
centered around engine production at the sites in Friedrichshafen, Aiken<br />
(USA) and Suzhou (China), diesel-based standard systems and<br />
customized power generation solutions made in Mankato (USA) and gasbased<br />
generator sets from Augsburg. “Aggretech will now form the fourth<br />
pillar of our onsite energy strategy,” expands Coers. “Beyond that, Tognum<br />
will also benefit from Aggretech’s system engineering skills and technical<br />
expertise.”<br />
In brief:<br />
Tognum growth in double figures<br />
Tognum continues to grow and expand its market position. "2011 was<br />
another successful year for Tognum," relates Tognum Chairman and CEO,<br />
Joachim Coers. As a result of the upturn in the economy, orders received<br />
rose 13 percent last year to 199.7m euro. At the same time, turnover increased<br />
to 2,972.1m euro and thus significantly exceeded the previous<br />
year's figure (2010: 2,563.6m euro). And despite the economic uncertainty,<br />
the group expects profitable growth to continue in 2012.<br />
Tognum, the parent company of <strong>MTU</strong>, increased its total sales to<br />
2,972.1 million euros in 2011.<br />
Aiken plant expands<br />
The <strong>MTU</strong> engine plant in Aiken, USA, is undergoing a 40m euro expansion<br />
program. As well as two new research and development buildings,<br />
new engine test benches are also being added. To date, Aiken has produced<br />
components for the <strong>MTU</strong> Series 2000 and Series 4000 and<br />
assembled Series 4000 engines. Only one year after starting production,<br />
the facility obtained ISO 14001 accreditation on the basis of its<br />
environmentally safe diesel engine production processes.<br />
Five diesel gensets and a natural-gas CHP plant will start service at the Queen<br />
Elizabeth Hospital in Perth, Australia, in July 2012.<br />
Medical suppliers<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> takes off with apps<br />
The first <strong>MTU</strong> apps are now available online. There is an <strong>MTU</strong> iPad<br />
app offering technical data and background information such as performance<br />
data for the Series 1600 engines. A smartphone app is also<br />
available which shows the nearest <strong>MTU</strong> and <strong>MTU</strong> <strong>Onsite</strong> <strong>Energy</strong> Sales<br />
& Service agents based on the phone's location. The <strong>MTU</strong> apps are<br />
available free of charge from the Apple App Store.<br />
An app for Series 1600 engines is available in the Apple App Store.<br />
The Australian Health Ministry has ordered five diesel gensets and a<br />
natural-gas CHP plant for the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in Perth. The<br />
units will be supplied by <strong>MTU</strong> Detroit Diesel Australia Pty Ltd. The<br />
emergency backup generator modules are based on <strong>MTU</strong> Type 20V<br />
4000 G23 engines and each produce an electrical output of 2.5 megawatts.<br />
The CHP plant driven by an <strong>MTU</strong> Type 20V 4000 L63 gas engine<br />
will run continuously for around 7,000 hours a year.<br />
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Award winner<br />
Four <strong>MTU</strong> Powerpacks each producing 390 kW will<br />
power Alstom’s Coradia Lint 81 diesel railcars.<br />
First Powerpacks<br />
with SCR<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> is to supply 206 Powerpacks to railcar manufacturer<br />
Alstom. Alstom will install the underfloor diesel units in<br />
56 regional trains which will go into service with Deutsche<br />
Bahn in the Greater Cologne and Eifel region, known<br />
as the Cologne Diesel Network, from December 2013.<br />
The drive units meet EU Stage IIIB emissions regulations<br />
which come into force in 2012. The new Coradia Lint 54<br />
and 81-type trains are Deutsche Bahn’s first diesel multiple<br />
units to be fitted with SCR catalyzers for exhaust<br />
gas cleaning and nitrogen oxide emissions reduction. In<br />
addition, in-engine technology will reduce particulate<br />
emissions by around 90 percent. In conjunction with an<br />
innovative engine management system, the new technology<br />
reduces diesel fuel consumption and therefore CO 2<br />
emissions by up to five percent.<br />
The Powerpacks with 390 kW diesel engines of the<br />
type 6H 1800 R85L are scheduled for delivery between<br />
March 2012 and September 2013. The two-car Coradia<br />
Lint 54 vehicles will each be fitted with three Powerpacks<br />
whilst the three-car Coradia Lint 81 versions will get four<br />
Powerpacks each. On each vehicle, one of the three (or<br />
four) Powerpacks can be shut down to achieve significant<br />
savings on fuel and operating costs depending on the<br />
route involved. The units, also known as “Traction Powerpacks”,<br />
will be supplied in a cost-efficient configuration<br />
without assemblies such as on-board power gensets or<br />
aircon compressors. As an operator, Deutsche Bahn also<br />
benefits from the opportunity to precisely tailor the<br />
package supplied to the service operated. Consistent<br />
savings on diesel fuel mean increased cost-efficiency over<br />
the entire life of the vehicles.<br />
Readers of the trade publication Mining Magazine have cast<br />
their votes and the result is that the <strong>MTU</strong> Series 4000 engines<br />
for mining vehicles have won the Mining Magazine Award in<br />
the “Environmental Excellence” category. The engines meet<br />
the Tier 4 final emissions standard without the use of exhaust<br />
treatment systems. The award recognizes outstanding new<br />
technologies, machinery and plant in the mining industry.<br />
Readers of the trade magazine could choose between three<br />
finalists in each of eleven categories. For the first time, nominees<br />
for this year’s awards included projects in the new<br />
category of “Environmental Excellence”. One of <strong>MTU</strong>’s conominees<br />
was an Australian mine which has implemented a<br />
scheme for recycling its rubble heaps. The other member of<br />
the top 3 was the 59-meter dome in a Bolivian mine that is<br />
designed to reduce the effect of airborne dust on the environment.<br />
“When developing the Series 4000 we took account of<br />
machine manufacturers’ product specifications as well as<br />
feedback from end users,” illuminates Tognum Technical<br />
Director, Dr. Ulrich Dohle. “The result is an engine that is<br />
adapted perfectly to the needs of the mining industry.” So<br />
despite the tighter restrictions, the Series 4000 satisfies the<br />
applicable emission limits by internal design features alone<br />
and, into the bargain, uses as much as five percent less fuel<br />
than the Tier 2 engines.<br />
The Series 4000 engines for mining vehicles meet the US Tier 4 final<br />
emission standards without the need for exhaust treatment technologies.<br />
Readers of Mining Magazine considered them deserving of<br />
the Mining Magazine Award in recognition.<br />
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1 The freight locomotives had to prove themselves in trials on the 3,400-kilometer route from Melbourne to<br />
Perth. 2 The locomotives were built by the Chinese manufacturer CSR Ziyang. 3 The diesel-electric traction<br />
systems with <strong>MTU</strong> Series 4000 engines have to withstand the extreme climatic conditions in the Australian outback.<br />
4 The locomotive bodies are married up to the bogies. 5 The first fully assembled SDA1 class locomotives<br />
set off from China to Australia. 6 The main part of the journey from China to Australia was made by ship.<br />
5<br />
Australian rules<br />
The Chinese train maker CSR Ziyang is currently building a fleet of powerful SDA1-class goods<br />
locomotives for the Australian freight company SCT Logistics (SCT = Special Containerized Transport).<br />
Ten of them are to haul heavy freight and iron ore trains across Australia. They are driven by<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> Type 20V 4000 rail engines delivering 3,000 kilowatts at 1,800 rpm. The first six of the batch<br />
have already been handed over to SCT and started service in Adelaide, South Australia. Beforehand,<br />
they had to complete extensive trials on their future service routes. They operated almost nonstop<br />
for 16 hours on the roughly 840-kilometer (522 miles) line from Adelaide to Coober Pedy. The highlight<br />
of the trials was a 3,400-kilometer (2,112 miles) trip from Melbourne to Perth via Adelaide. The<br />
section between Adelaide and Perth required a journey of 40 hours without a break. In the special<br />
climatic conditions of the Australian summer, that was a big challenge for the locomotives and their<br />
engines. Average temperatures in the region between Adelaide and Perth are around 40 degrees<br />
(108° F) and peaks just below the 50-degree (122°F) mark are not unusual.<br />
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As energy demand grows, offshore drilling for oil and natural gas increases<br />
Submerged<br />
treasure<br />
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As drilling for new reserves of oil<br />
and natural gas on land becomes more<br />
challenging, the search for large reserves<br />
is moving offshore. The majority<br />
of those reserves are in the deepest<br />
waters of the Earth’s oceans. Freeing<br />
and processing the fossil fuels requires<br />
equipment engineered to meet<br />
the unique demands of a harsh and<br />
remote environment.<br />
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Leading international energy companies are spending<br />
heavily on offshore platforms, pipelines and floating<br />
storage vessels.<br />
Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO)<br />
vessels like this store and process oil until tankers<br />
arrive to receive it and transport it to land.<br />
The otherwise tranquil coastal waters off<br />
Brazil bustle with all of the drilling, processing<br />
and transportation activity you would expect in<br />
a country that sits on roughly 11.7 billion barrels<br />
of oil and has taken its place among the world’s<br />
thriving economies.<br />
Six thousand miles to the northeast in the North<br />
Sea, a mammoth drilling platform hovers over<br />
Norway’s Gjoa oil and gas field. Underneath it is<br />
a proven reserve of 1.3 trillion cubic feet of natural<br />
gas and 82 million barrels of oil. Two hundred<br />
miles to the south— just a stone’s throw, really,<br />
in the context of a planet’s surface that’s 70 percent<br />
water— the United Kingdom awaits the<br />
arrival of two new drilling rigs that will produce<br />
three billion barrels off the coast of the Shetland<br />
Islands. And half a world away, preparations are<br />
being made eighty miles off the northwest coast<br />
of Australia to host the largest ultra-deepwater<br />
drilling platforms ever built. Eventually the semisubmersible<br />
rigs will preside over the new<br />
Gorgon Development in the Indian Ocean — and<br />
9.6 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, the energy<br />
equivalent of 2.25 billion barrels of oil.<br />
The world has never needed more oil and gas<br />
than right now, and the technology and equipment<br />
required to locate, extract and distribute<br />
those fossil fuels from deep offshore fields have<br />
never been in greater demand. In the last 10<br />
years, more than half of new global oil and gas<br />
reserves were discovered offshore. According to<br />
global energy research firm HIS, “Deepwater and<br />
ultra deepwater discoveries are becoming the<br />
dominant source of new reserve additions,<br />
accounting for 41% of total new reserves.” Extracting<br />
oil and gas from the bottom of the world’s<br />
oceans is very different than doing so on land.<br />
But the two tasks do share one defining characteristic:<br />
Neither is getting any easier.<br />
Riding the wave<br />
Given the drilling challenges and current and<br />
projected global demand for fossil fuels, leading<br />
international energy companies like Petrobras,<br />
Chevron, BP, ExxonMobil and others are spending<br />
heavily on offshore platforms, pipelines and floating<br />
storage vessels. It’s a wave of investment in<br />
specialized capital equipment that’s driving offshore<br />
oil and gas output to unprecedented levels.<br />
David Oliphant, <strong>MTU</strong> Global Director of Oil & Gas<br />
Sales and Sales Engineering, says the wave<br />
reflects significant changes in offshore energy<br />
production techniques over the last few years.<br />
“Traditional deepwater platforms are being joined<br />
offshore by new methods and equipment to drill,<br />
process and store oil and gas, such as semi-submersible<br />
platforms, drill ships and FPSOs (floating,<br />
productions, storage and offloading units).<br />
Contractors are now working in deeper water<br />
more frequently, and we have powerful engines<br />
that meet their needs. It’s a whole new game,”<br />
he adds.<br />
Conventional drilling platforms are gigantic floating<br />
rigs that are partially constructed on land,<br />
towed far out to sea and eventually secured in<br />
place over a deepwater oil or gas field. But as demand<br />
for energy has grown, new offshore drilling<br />
and processing technologies have been developed<br />
to keep pace. <strong>MTU</strong> has kept stride with that<br />
evolution, according to Robert Wagner, Senior<br />
Manager Oil & Gas, <strong>MTU</strong> Friedrichshafen GmbH.<br />
“Customers rely on our high quality, reliable<br />
equipment. We work very closely with our customers<br />
and their contractors at the early stage of<br />
each project, and provide technical and commercial<br />
information for effective project planning,”<br />
Wagner explains. The benefits of this approach<br />
are clear. The earlier that <strong>MTU</strong> is involved in the<br />
planning process for an offshore energy project,<br />
the better the results will be for the contractors<br />
who build and operate the equipment utilized,<br />
and for the energy company funding the projects.<br />
Breakthrough in Brazil<br />
Engevix (Florianopolis, Brazil), a major shipyard,<br />
purchased sixteen generators powered by <strong>MTU</strong><br />
16V 4000 P83 diesel engines last May. Two generators<br />
each will be installed aboard eight FPSO<br />
vessels operated by Petrobras, Brazil’s multinational<br />
energy corporation and the largest company<br />
in Latin America by market capitalization.<br />
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“Thanks to a successful collaboration among<br />
<strong>MTU</strong>, Engevix, and our wholly-owned subsidiary<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> do Brasil, we will be providing a<br />
complete generator set package, including the<br />
design, component sourcing and assembly,”<br />
Oliphant explains.<br />
“A special aspect of this project is that Petrobras<br />
and the Brazilian government have mandated<br />
that at least 60 percent of the components in the<br />
generator sets be manufactured in Brazil,” says<br />
Keith Wiedersheim, Managing Director of <strong>MTU</strong> do<br />
Brasil. “By partnering with local suppliers, we are<br />
able to utilize the highly reliable <strong>MTU</strong> 16V 4000<br />
P83 engines that were manufactured in Germany<br />
and then locally add Brazilian-made components<br />
to build complete generator sets that meet the<br />
local-content mandate.” Each generator set<br />
can produce 1,800 kW. The first will serve as an<br />
emergency standby generator set and the second<br />
as an auxiliary generator set, operating in parallel<br />
with the ship’s 100 megawatt gas-turbine generating<br />
system.<br />
Safety at sea: Powering fire extinguisher<br />
pumps<br />
The North Sea is very different in both temperament<br />
and climate from the Atlantic Ocean off<br />
Brazil’s coast, but equally famous for its huge<br />
reserves of deepwater oil and natural gas. It’s<br />
also home to the Gjoa oil and gas field and a<br />
semi-submersible platform of the same name.<br />
Connected to five well heads tapping into a<br />
reserve containing over a trillion cubic feet<br />
of natural gas, the Gjoa platform was built by<br />
Norway’s Statoil Hydro and installed in late 2010.<br />
The platform is equipped with the world’s largest<br />
and most powerful fire extinguisher pumps.<br />
Manufactured by FRAMO (Bergen, Norway) and<br />
powered by four <strong>MTU</strong> 20-cylinder Series 4000<br />
engines each delivering 2,800 kW at 1,800 rpm,<br />
«Extracting oil and gas from the bottom of the world’s<br />
oceans is very different than doing so on land. But the two<br />
tasks do share one defining characteristic: Neither is getting<br />
any easier. »<br />
the four-pump system can apply over 1,000 gallons<br />
of seawater per second to an onboard fire.<br />
Erik Bergesen, a buyer at FRAMO says, “<strong>MTU</strong> is<br />
one of the few diesel engine builders in the world<br />
whose products meet the criteria for our fire extinguisher<br />
pumps.” Bergesen adds that he values<br />
the way that <strong>MTU</strong> adapted to the very specific<br />
engineering needs of the Gjoa platform fire extinguisher<br />
pump project. The platform also features<br />
an “essential generator” driven by an <strong>MTU</strong> Series<br />
4000 type 20V 956 TB33 engine with an output<br />
Ocean- and larger lake-based offshore platforms<br />
and drilling rigs are some of the largest portable<br />
engineered structures in the world and work in<br />
depths up to 10,000 feet.<br />
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In the last ten years more than half of the discoveries<br />
of oil and gas reserves worldwide were made in<br />
coastal waters. That means that new technologies<br />
and equipment are needed as well as more qualified<br />
personnel for the drilling platforms.<br />
rating of 6,250 kW to provide power to critical<br />
electrical systems if the main power supply fails.<br />
A second emergency backup generator uses a<br />
Series 4000 type 16V 4000 P61 engine capable<br />
of 1,760 kW.<br />
Just west of the Shetland Islands, another North<br />
Sea oil field operation will benefit from <strong>MTU</strong><br />
power generation systems. The Clair Ridge project,<br />
a joint venture of BP, Shell, ConocoPhillips<br />
and Chevron, is about to enter its second phase<br />
of production. The project will feature two new<br />
«We can provide a powerful, compact, lightweight design<br />
ideal for offshore applications, with all the components are<br />
integrated, thoroughly tested and supported. »<br />
Robert Wagner, <strong>MTU</strong>-Senior Manager Oil & Gas<br />
bridge-linked drilling platforms expected to produce<br />
three billion barrels of oil from North Sea<br />
deepwater wells. <strong>MTU</strong> will provide power generation<br />
systems to that system, incorporating<br />
both 16-cylinder and 20-cylinder versions of <strong>MTU</strong><br />
Series 4000 diesel engines for emergency and<br />
standby power.<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> engines will also play a role in the fire extinguishing<br />
systems incorporated into the Clair<br />
Ridge drilling process, thanks to longtime customer<br />
Eureka AS (Lysaker, Norway). Eureka will use<br />
three <strong>MTU</strong> Series 4000 12-cylinder engines to<br />
drive the diesel-electric fire extinguisher pumps<br />
at BP’s drilling platform at Clair Ridge. “We<br />
choose <strong>MTU</strong> because their diesel engines are<br />
suitable for our applications in terms of power<br />
range, size and weight, and because they offer<br />
very good support and quality,” explains Svein<br />
Erik Heiebråten, Eureka’s Manager of Package<br />
Engineering.<br />
Natural gas Down Under: Australia rising<br />
Asia’s economic fortunes continue to rise and<br />
with them, the demand for energy. Australia is<br />
able to capitalize on that demand both because<br />
of its proximity to the East, and because it is a<br />
net exporter of hydrocarbons. In fact, Australia<br />
was the fourth-largest exporter of liquefied natural<br />
gas (LNG) in the world in 2009.<br />
Two major energy projects under construction<br />
off the coast of Australia are expected to produce<br />
energy in about two years, and are massive<br />
in scope and expectations. The Gorgon area<br />
gas fields are located approximately 60km from<br />
Barrow Island and approximately 200km west of<br />
Dampier. Up to 13.8 trillion cubic feet of hydrocarbon<br />
reserves have been certified as proven<br />
in the Greater Gorgon area, including 9.6 trillion<br />
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cubic feet of proven hydrocarbon reserves in the<br />
Gorgon field itself. Gorgon is considered large<br />
enough to justify the construction of at least two<br />
LNG “trains” — the liquefaction and purification<br />
facilities in a liquefied natural gas plant. “With<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> Australia, we’re supplying five essential<br />
diesel generator sets to the Barrow Island LNG<br />
processing facilities. They’ll be used to provide<br />
emergency power to important systems if the<br />
main power fails,” explains Oliphant. Each generator<br />
will be able to produce 3,125 kVA at 1,500<br />
rpm and will be driven by an <strong>MTU</strong> Series 4000<br />
20-cylinder diesel engine. According to Chevron,<br />
the project has a life cycle of at least forty years<br />
from the time of start-up and will provide “a cleaner<br />
burning energy source for Australia and the<br />
Asia Pacific region.”<br />
On the other side of the continent, a joint venture<br />
of Origin, ConocoPhillips and Sinopec is taking<br />
shape. The $35 billion Australia Pacific Liquified<br />
Natural Gas fields (APLNG) development consists<br />
of three phases, including drilling in the Surat<br />
and Bowen Basins near Queensland, construction<br />
of a gas transmission pipeline from the drilling<br />
sites to Curtis Island, and the construction of<br />
up to five LNG trains on that island. <strong>MTU</strong> will supply<br />
two containerized generator sets for standby<br />
power for the trains. Each genset will produce<br />
2,500 kVA at 1,500 rpm, thanks to <strong>MTU</strong> Series<br />
4000 16-cylinder engines.<br />
Single source, thoroughly engineered<br />
These examples and others around the world<br />
demonstrate <strong>MTU</strong>’s growing momentum in the<br />
offshore energy business, particularly in highly<br />
efficient diesel-driven power generation systems.<br />
Robert Wagner says, “We can offer our offshore<br />
customers many significant advantages and a<br />
complete package solution from a single supplier.<br />
That means we can provide a powerful, compact,<br />
lightweight design ideal for offshore applications,<br />
with all the components are integrated, thoroughly<br />
tested and supported,” he explains.<br />
There’s nothing easy or inexpensive about offshore<br />
oil and gas production. But as the world<br />
clamors for more energy, it’s clear that there’s<br />
a bright future in the darkest water.<br />
Words: Mike Principato<br />
Pictures: Getty Images, Tognum Corporate<br />
Archive<br />
To find out more, contact:<br />
David Oliphant<br />
david.oliphant@tognum.com<br />
Tel. +1-248-560-8054<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> in the Global Offshore<br />
<strong>Energy</strong> Business <strong>MTU</strong> supplies diesel engines for a variety<br />
of oil and gas drilling, storage and processing applications<br />
all over the world, including these types of offshore<br />
facilities:<br />
Fixed Platforms<br />
Ocean- and larger lake-based offshore platforms and<br />
drilling rigs are some of the largest portable engineered<br />
structures in the world. The biggest are designed for and<br />
installed over the most productive fields for long term<br />
use. Platforms are stabilized on drilling sites using several<br />
methods, depending on water depth. For example,<br />
semisubmersible platforms, which can be relocated with<br />
relative ease, are deployed in depths up to 10,000 feet<br />
and utilize pontoons and columns for floatation. “Jack-up”<br />
mobile drilling rigs use legs that can be raised and<br />
lowered while attached to the sea floor and thus are used<br />
in depths of up to about 500 feet.<br />
Drillships<br />
As the name implies, drillships are vessels equipped with<br />
oil and gas drilling capabilities. These vessels are often<br />
used in the exploration of new wells in deep water up to<br />
12,000 feet.<br />
FPSOs<br />
A Floating Production Storage and Offloading unit is<br />
typically a large monohull vessel equipped with facilities<br />
to store and process oil extracted by a separate platform.<br />
FPSOs can store crude oil for extended periods until<br />
tankers arrive to receive it and transport it to land.<br />
Variations on the FPSO include floating storage and<br />
offloading units (FSOs) and floating storage units (FSU),<br />
which have more limited functionality. London energy<br />
industry research firm Infield projects that 62% of floating<br />
oil and gas production systems will be in FPSOs, far<br />
more than any other offshore system. The natural gas<br />
equivalent of an FPSO is an FLNG-Floating Liquid<br />
Natural Gas facility.<br />
MEMO<br />
41% of newly discovered oil and gas reserves are<br />
located in deep sea or ultra-deep sea areas.<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> engines are well-known around the offshore<br />
energy world, particularly in highly efficient<br />
diesel-driven power generation systems.<br />
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<strong>MTU</strong> Brown <strong>MTU</strong> Brown<br />
0-17-28-62 80% der Farbe 60%<br />
CMYK CMYK CMYK<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> Blue <strong>MTU</strong> Blue<br />
60%<br />
50-25-0-10 80% der Farbe<br />
CMYK<br />
CMYK CMYK<br />
40%<br />
CMYK<br />
40%<br />
CMYK<br />
20%<br />
CMYK<br />
20%<br />
CMYK<br />
Power for Airport Rescue Fire Fighting Vehicles<br />
The extinguishers<br />
As Brazil prepares to host an estimated 600,000 football fans from foreign countries at the<br />
2014 FIFA World Cup, the nation’s airport authority is investing billions in upgrades to the<br />
country’s air transportation infrastructure. Rosenbauer America is playing a part in that<br />
effort by supplying eighty <strong>MTU</strong> powered airport fire trucks.<br />
Pacific<br />
Ocean<br />
Venezuela<br />
Colombia<br />
Ecuador<br />
Peru<br />
Bolivia<br />
Brazil<br />
The Brazilian government authority Infraero Aeroportos<br />
operates the country’s sixty-six airports,<br />
handling about 97% of all air traffic. According<br />
to Infraero, two million aircraft takeoffs and landings<br />
carrying over 155 million passengers occur<br />
in Brazilian airports each year. Infraero says although<br />
current airports infrastructure meets in-<br />
Paraguay<br />
Uruguay<br />
MAP<br />
Sao Paulo<br />
Atlantic<br />
Ocean<br />
It once was easy to know when a person reached<br />
the highest heights of truly international fame. It<br />
was the precise moment when he or she became<br />
known by a single proper noun. Pavarotti was just<br />
that, and Einstein didn’t need “Albert.” There’s<br />
no “Frank” necessary before “Sinatra” today, any<br />
more than “Amadeus” was for required before<br />
“Mozart” two centuries ago. Today, whether it’s<br />
Bieber, Beyonce or Bono, more often than not,<br />
one-word-only celebrities seem almost common.<br />
Brazilians do things a little differently. They prefer<br />
to reserve solitary noun status strictly for their<br />
real heroes: footballers. Specifically and most<br />
recently, a young player named simply Neymar.<br />
Many fans of the game consider Neymar to be<br />
one of the best strikers in the world today, a sure<br />
bet to earn a spot on Brazil’s National Team and<br />
a worthy successor to Ronaldo and Pele, the<br />
country’s previous one-name living football<br />
legends.<br />
All of this helps explain why Brazil is investing a<br />
great deal of time and resources in its infrastructure<br />
to prepare to host the world’s biggest sports<br />
event. For Brazilians, the 2014 FIFA World Cup<br />
isn’t just their team’s chance to win an unprecedented<br />
sixth international championship. It’s also<br />
an opportunity to showcase Brazil itself, a country<br />
that has transformed itself into a thriving economic<br />
success story. And, just as important, one<br />
that will be fully prepared to host Rio2016, the<br />
first Olympic Games ever held in South America.<br />
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Industry<br />
Left: Rosenbauer America<br />
is supplying eighty<br />
Panther ARFFs (Airport<br />
Rescue Fire Fighting<br />
vehicles) to Brazil’s Infraero<br />
Aeroportos as the<br />
country prepares its<br />
airports to host visitors<br />
from around the world<br />
for the 2014 FIFA World<br />
Cup and the 2016 Olympic<br />
Games.<br />
Right: Football superstar<br />
Neymar is expected to<br />
play for the Brazilian<br />
national team when his<br />
country hosts the 2014<br />
FIFA World Cup.<br />
ternational standards, anticipated increased air<br />
traffic in future years requires the modernization<br />
project that’s underway now. That’s where<br />
Rosenbauer America, the world's largest fire<br />
apparatus manufacturer, and its longtime diesel<br />
engine supplier <strong>MTU</strong>, are playing a role.<br />
Rosenbauer recently signed a $42.9 million (US)<br />
contract with Infraero to supply eighty Panther<br />
ARFFs (Airport Rescue Fire Fighting vehicles). A<br />
prototype is expected to be delivered to Infraero<br />
before the end of this year; the Panthers will then<br />
be manufactured at the Rosenbauer Minnesota<br />
and Rosenbauer Motors divisions in Wyoming,<br />
Minnesota. The ARFF firefighting systems will<br />
be supplied from Rosenbauer International AG’s<br />
main plant in Leonding, Austria. The vehicles will<br />
be supplied and commissioned in several stages<br />
to Infraero by January 2014.<br />
ARFFs are a critical tool in the emergency<br />
response program at major airports. They are<br />
designed and built by Rosenbauer from chassis<br />
to turret for the unique characteristics and<br />
demands of airport emergencies. The six-tire,<br />
three-axle Panther sold to Infraero has a<br />
3,400-gallon payload capable of delivering long<br />
and massive high-pressure streams of fire extinguishant<br />
— crucial for fighting fires that can occur<br />
on or around large commercial jets. Like all<br />
Rosenbauer ARFFs, the truck’s sleek design<br />
allows unobstructed and rapid access to the<br />
emergency gear onboard. Inside the cockpit, an<br />
array of color-coded buttons and switches are<br />
presented to the driver in a logical format, with<br />
the firefighting turret and pump controlled by a<br />
jetfighter style joystick and pushbutton. Operator<br />
vision and safety is optimized with a built-in<br />
Forward-Looking Infrared (FLIR) thermal imaging<br />
camera system.<br />
Like any emergency vehicle — particularly one<br />
that has to be ready to serve on a moment’s<br />
notice in the 24/7 operating environment of<br />
airports all over the world — reliability is critical.<br />
“Rosenbauer chose the 665 hp <strong>MTU</strong> Series 60<br />
for this application because of its dependability,<br />
performance and value. <strong>MTU</strong> offers an excellent<br />
standard warranty which is a huge benefit to our<br />
customers. The Series 60 also offers excellent<br />
fuel economy, low emissions output and is ideally<br />
suited for Rosenbauer’s ARFF application,” explains<br />
Jeff O'Hearn, ARFF Mechanical Designer/<br />
Engineer at Rosenbauer.<br />
When an airport emergency occurs, every<br />
second counts. Equipped with its <strong>MTU</strong> diesels,<br />
Infraero Aeroportos’ Panther ARFFs can hit<br />
75 miles per hour on the way to the incident.<br />
That’s fast — even faster than Neymar. Just don’t<br />
tell that to a Brazilian football fan.<br />
Text: Mike Principato<br />
Pictures: Rosenbauer, Getty Images<br />
To find out more, contact:<br />
David Combs<br />
david.combs@mtu-online.com<br />
Tel. +1 248 560-8182<br />
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Mining<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> engines in action in South African platinum mine<br />
Platinic affair<br />
Pompie Makgoba is a mechanic at the Modikwa platinum mine. Like thousands of other<br />
South Africans, his family has worked in mining for generations.<br />
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<strong>MTU</strong> Brown <strong>MTU</strong> Brown<br />
0-17-28-62 80% der Farbe 60%<br />
CMYK CMYK CMYK<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> Blue <strong>MTU</strong> Blue<br />
60%<br />
50-25-0-10 80% der Farbe<br />
CMYK<br />
CMYK CMYK<br />
40%<br />
CMYK<br />
40%<br />
CMYK<br />
20%<br />
CMYK<br />
20%<br />
CMYK<br />
Mining<br />
For thousands of years man has looked to<br />
extract the planet’s minerals in one form or<br />
another. South Africa has always been at the<br />
forefront of this endeavour, starting with<br />
ancient civilisations looking to access the<br />
mystical powers of gold, to the famed gold<br />
rush in the 1880s. In fact, it would be safe<br />
to say that South Africa has led the world in<br />
the last 150 years with the city of Johannesburg<br />
or Egoli (Xhosa for City of Gold) –<br />
Africa’s economic powerhouse – having risen<br />
out of the original gold mines. All across the<br />
northern reaches of the country there are<br />
areas where mining is not only a way of life,<br />
but a life line.<br />
In one of the poorest provinces of South Africa,<br />
with 22% unemployment and other major socioeconomic<br />
issues, a job is what holds the key for<br />
most. With mining being the dominant industry<br />
and provider of jobs in the officially liquidated<br />
Limpopo Province, it is no wonder that families<br />
like Pompie Makgoba’s have been in the mining<br />
business for generations. It also makes it easier<br />
to understand why he and thousands of others<br />
wake up at 3:30 am every day to start work on<br />
the mines at 6 am. Pompie drives two hours just<br />
to get to work each day and roughly the same to<br />
get home to his wife and three children.<br />
Modikwa Platinum Mine<br />
Modikwa Platinum Mine has been in operation<br />
since 2003 and lies in a lush, subtropical igneous<br />
complex that spans hundreds of kilometres.<br />
Deceptive appearance:<br />
a green and sparsely<br />
populated landscape on<br />
the surface. But underground<br />
there are loud<br />
rumblings. The Modikwa<br />
platinum mine is located<br />
in an area in which<br />
extensive natural resources<br />
are hidden. Valuable<br />
metals are extracted<br />
from a total of 21 mines<br />
in the region.<br />
Entering the area of the mine, where a sprawl of<br />
villages and a snaking commercial zone hugs the<br />
main road from Burgersfort to Polokwane, is an<br />
array of mid-sized hilltops and rocky outcrops.<br />
Scores of car washes, fruit sellers, taverns and<br />
makeshift auto mechanics line up to ply their<br />
trade. There are 21 mines operating in the area,<br />
and a further 16 being developed. It is no surprise<br />
then that with this rich depository encased<br />
below the surface, the area experiences the highest<br />
density of lightning strikes in South Africa.<br />
Going underground – Safety a priority<br />
Pompie has worked at Modikwa Platinum Mine<br />
since 2006 and has worked on mines for 32<br />
years. He now finds himself in a good place and<br />
is happy to spend his days servicing the vehicles<br />
that do the hard work underground and on the<br />
surface. When asked about the ups and downs of<br />
the job, he quickly responds, “There is not much<br />
stress, because the engines are easy to service,<br />
but I don’t like going underground. It is too dangerous.”<br />
Modikwa boasts proud testimony to its<br />
emphasis on safety, with eight million fatality free<br />
shifts. This is a record in the South African<br />
Mining industry.<br />
On average, Pompie and his team of boiler<br />
mechanics will spend 20% of their time underground,<br />
servicing machines that are unable to<br />
come to the surface to be repaired at the workshop.<br />
For the other employees who are not so<br />
lucky, they will spend all of their time underground<br />
in shifts of up to 12 hours at a time.<br />
Modikwa is a decline mine, so there is no drop<br />
shaft and miners enter either by catching a lift in<br />
one of the vehicles descending the nine degree<br />
slope, or they take a chair lift reminiscent of those<br />
found in ski resorts, which comprises stool-like<br />
devices placed ten metres apart on a cable that<br />
loops to and from a central area below the surface.<br />
“Make big rocks into little rocks”<br />
There is a great deal happening at any one time<br />
on the mine. Five thousand employees in total<br />
and an arsenal of over 35 vehicles, performing a<br />
range of extremely attritional tasks, make it a very<br />
busy place. In a highly sophisticated engineering<br />
environment, with some of the most impressive<br />
power machinery available anywhere, the essence<br />
of the game remains simple – “make big rocks<br />
into little rocks”. Driving this overly simplistic<br />
description of the process on both North and<br />
South shafts at Modikwa is the <strong>MTU</strong> Series 904<br />
and <strong>MTU</strong> Series 926. Both vehicles are key to the<br />
reduction of bedrock to access the ore and eventually<br />
the refined precious platinum.<br />
Working at the face – well drilled<br />
Powering the drill rig, a vehicle used in the development<br />
of the stopes and tunnels underground,<br />
is the <strong>MTU</strong> Series 904. The drill rig is a futuristic<br />
construct which would look quite at home in the<br />
movie Transformers. With its six metre long boom<br />
reaching to the face, it pierces the solid earth,<br />
punching holes approximately 5cm wide; just<br />
enough to house and make way for the explosives.<br />
If the drill rig goes down, production slows.<br />
And in an operation that produces 240,000 tons<br />
of platinum per year and loses on average ten<br />
million rand for each day that production stops,<br />
reliability and peak performance are non-negotiables.<br />
It is one of the only machines on Modikwa<br />
that stays underground, even as blasting takes<br />
place. The three drill rigs on North and South<br />
shaft stay underground for a full week, being<br />
re-fuelled underground from containers delivered<br />
to it, when required.<br />
Botswana<br />
South Africa<br />
Zimbabwe<br />
MAP<br />
Mozambique<br />
Burgersfort<br />
Swaziland<br />
Indian<br />
Ocean<br />
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When the vehicles return to the surface every day, mine workers wash the dust off them from blasting and transporting<br />
the rocks. By doing so, they minimize the exposure of the engines and other sensitive components. Because when plant is<br />
used 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, downtimes have to be kept to the absolute minimum.<br />
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With their long arms, the rigs for drilling the blasting holes are among the more exotic vehicles in the mine. They drill<br />
holes roughly five centimeters across into the rock face, which are then filled with explosive. The drill rigs are brought<br />
to the surface for cleaning and servicing once a week. They are even refueled underground when required.<br />
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Mining<br />
Pompie services and maintains the <strong>MTU</strong> Series<br />
904 engine when it comes to the surface and is<br />
impressed by its power. “The <strong>MTU</strong> engine<br />
in the drill rig is something I would like to put<br />
in my car,” he jokes, “it would make my ride to<br />
the mine each day far more enjoyable”. It may<br />
help to get him through the mountain passes but<br />
the open road might prove a little frustrating.<br />
Whether Pompie’s wife will be happy with the<br />
roaring produced by the impressive torque at<br />
low revolutions, is another question.<br />
Carrying the load<br />
Each vehicle plays a specific role in the operation.<br />
Moving from the more exotic drill rigs and<br />
roof bolters, there is the less sci-fi inspired load<br />
haul dumper (LHD), which would be no stranger<br />
to anyone who has played in the sand pit or the<br />
beach as a child. The 20-ton LHD on Modikwa<br />
is powered by the <strong>MTU</strong> Series 926. Being one of<br />
the smaller LHD’s on the mine, it more than<br />
makes up for its size in workload. For this reason<br />
it is crucial that it remains working; for maximum<br />
periods, at maximum output. LHD’s load and<br />
carry the blasted raw ore from underground to<br />
the surface, where it is tipped and sorted and<br />
makes its way on the impressive system of conveyer<br />
belts on both North and South shafts to<br />
the smelter. The size of this particular vehicle<br />
makes it more mobile and manageable for<br />
increased productivity.<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> gets the nod<br />
In a trackless underground mining operation,<br />
with heavy machinery manoeuvring in tight<br />
spaces to get to its destination and perform its<br />
task on a 24 hour basis, size and performance<br />
is a key combination. Smaller vehicles doing the<br />
work of bigger machines, thereby increasing efficiency<br />
and productivity would put a smile on any<br />
Engineering Foreman or Contracts Manager’s<br />
face. Rudi Coetzee, Engineering Foreman at Modikwa,<br />
confirms this, concluding, “That was critical<br />
when we elected <strong>MTU</strong> to supply our engines.<br />
We made it perfectly clear to them that we are<br />
a mine running 24 hours a day. <strong>MTU</strong> was one of<br />
the few companies that could stand behind us<br />
and provide a service on that basis. These engines<br />
have to perform in some of the harshest<br />
conditions, for long periods.”<br />
Automation in extreme conditions<br />
Modikwa is known for its high water table and it is<br />
common for Pompie to get called to service a<br />
vehicle that is knee-deep in water, especially in<br />
newly developed areas where the water still needs<br />
to be pumped out. To illustrate this, in 2011,<br />
240 ml of rain fell in a 24 hour period, adding to<br />
the challenge that these machines endure from<br />
the elements. Further from the development<br />
ends, where the older areas are, he may experience<br />
extreme heat and dust with temperatures<br />
consistently reaching the mid 40˚s Celsius (100°<br />
F). The engines add significantly to the heat, too.<br />
If it were not for the Engine Control Module (ECM)<br />
there may be more cause for concern. The ECM is<br />
the automatic protection system on the <strong>MTU</strong> engines,<br />
where engines are programmed to cut out<br />
after excessive idling time. Although there is an<br />
extensive ventilation system at work, and efforts<br />
are maximised to pump clean air underground, as<br />
well as to reduce emissions, there are hard facts<br />
that human beings are faced with in an environment<br />
that was not meant for us to be in.<br />
The real dangers of mining in South Africa<br />
– Snakes on a mine<br />
Besides the risks already highlighted, there is<br />
the ever present danger of ‘fall of ground’ where<br />
miners can be trapped or worse. Each miner is<br />
supplied with a survival pack which will give an<br />
additional 45 minutes of oxygen in a crisis situation<br />
and there are communication devices stationed<br />
throughout the mine which do a good job<br />
in lessening the risks slightly. As if the threat of<br />
this is not enough, Modikwa employs a permanent<br />
snake catcher! He is known to catch up to<br />
four snakes a day in the summer, being that the<br />
area is a hotbed for some of the most deadly<br />
The value of the ore is<br />
not yet apparent from<br />
the freshly mined grey<br />
rocks. Only after smelting<br />
is it turned into<br />
highly prized platinum.<br />
snakes in the world, including the Black Mamba,<br />
Spitting Cobra and the lethal Rinkals. Underground<br />
mining is not for the faint hearted nor<br />
faint engines!<br />
The future looks bright<br />
Pompie takes great pride in the role that he plays<br />
in the greater good of the mine. Understanding<br />
the vast workload that the machines get through<br />
daily, in extreme conditions, means that the work<br />
he and his fellow boiler mechanics perform is just<br />
as important as the most senior executives. It is<br />
a high risk environment and every service that<br />
Pompie undertakes means that his fellow workers<br />
underground are safer and the profitability of the<br />
mine is not jeopardised.<br />
Pompie’s positive approach to his work is a<br />
shining example for those around him. “In five<br />
years time, my goal is to be a manager”, comments<br />
Pompie when asked what the future holds<br />
for him at Modikwa. With mining in his veins and<br />
the good performance of the mine thus far, one<br />
would not wager against this.<br />
Words: Chad Fichardt<br />
Pictures: Francesca van Rooyen<br />
To find out more, contact:<br />
Dave Nicol<br />
dave.nicol@mtu-online.com<br />
Tel. +27 11 570-4901
<strong>MTU</strong> Brown <strong>MTU</strong> Brown<br />
0-17-28-62 80% der Farbe 60%<br />
CMYK CMYK CMYK<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> Blue <strong>MTU</strong> Blue<br />
60%<br />
50-25-0-10 80% der Farbe<br />
CMYK<br />
CMYK CMYK<br />
40%<br />
CMYK<br />
40%<br />
CMYK<br />
20%<br />
CMYK<br />
20%<br />
CMYK<br />
Research vessels guard the U.S. Great Lakes<br />
Invades from<br />
the deepth<br />
Canada<br />
MAP<br />
Great Lakes<br />
USA<br />
Ann Arbor<br />
Cuba<br />
Atlantic<br />
Ocean<br />
The R/V Kaho is one of two new <strong>MTU</strong> powered high-speed research vessels purchased by the USGS.<br />
The Great Lakes that border the United<br />
States’ northeast corner and Canada are the<br />
largest collection of freshwater lakes on<br />
Earth and hold 21% of the world’s surface<br />
fresh water. Protecting the delicate ecological<br />
balance in Lakes Superior, Ontario, Michigan,<br />
Huron and Erie is the job of the United States<br />
Department of the Interior’s US Geological<br />
Survey Center (USGS) and its Great Lakes Science<br />
Center. The USGS chose <strong>MTU</strong> diesel engines<br />
to power its two newest scientific<br />
research vessels, the Kaho and the Muskie.<br />
They are fifty-pound aquatic aliens, labeled<br />
the “locusts of the river,” and can terrorize any<br />
ecosystem they invade. They have been called<br />
“living missiles” because of their habit of launching<br />
themselves out of the water when startled,<br />
often right into the path of unwary boaters,<br />
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Marine<br />
The United States Department of the Interior’s US Geological Survey Center (USGS) and its Great Lakes<br />
Science Center help protect the US Great Lakes from invasive species like these Asian Carp.<br />
water skiers and fisherman. They can severely<br />
deplete the food supply of any freshwater waterway<br />
they inhabit by feeding on the plankton essential<br />
to sustaining native fish populations. They<br />
are the infamous Asian carp. The species was originally<br />
imported from China and Southeast Asia<br />
to consume algae in US catfish ponds. In the<br />
decades since their arrival, however, they have<br />
been voraciously eating and reproducing their<br />
way up the Mississippi River on their way to the<br />
Great Lakes. If the carp reach the Lakes, the invasive<br />
species might threaten a $7 billion fishing<br />
industry and substantial tourist revenue.<br />
If the unwelcome fish do arrive, the researchers<br />
at the Great Lakes Science Center (GLSC, Ann<br />
Arbor, Michigan) will be among the first to detect<br />
their presence. In fact, although photos of<br />
schools of leaping carp have attracted a lot of<br />
media attention lately, GLSC has quietly played<br />
a vital role in protecting and preserving the<br />
Great Lakes’ ecosystem and biodiversity for almost<br />
a century. It’s a mission as broad and deep<br />
as the Lakes themselves; accomplishing it is<br />
expected to get a bit easier soon, thanks to two<br />
new <strong>MTU</strong> powered high-speed research vessels.<br />
Bigger, faster and smarter<br />
Christened last August, R/V Kaho and R/V Muskie<br />
were purchased by the USGS for the GLSC at<br />
a combined cost of $8.2 million, replacing two<br />
smaller, older vessels of the same names that<br />
were operating in Lake Ontario and Lake Erie,<br />
respectively. According to GLSC Director Russell<br />
Strach, “The R/V Muskie and R/V Kaho will<br />
provide safe and reliable platforms for scientists,<br />
and are equipped with state-of-the-art scientific<br />
instrumentation to improve our understanding of<br />
deep-water ecosystems and fishes in lakes Erie<br />
and Ontario.”<br />
Kaho and Muskie are multi-purpose vessels<br />
equipped with wet laboratories and sophisticated<br />
sampling, fish detection and analysis gear. This<br />
onboard equipment can collect, analyze, monitor<br />
and communicate critical information about<br />
fishery, aquatic and coastal resources. Designed<br />
by Murray & Associates (Fort Lauderdale, Florida)<br />
and built in Cleveland, Ohio by Great Lakes<br />
Shipyard under construction supervision by Alion<br />
Science and Technology (McLean, Virginia),<br />
the new boats are powered by twin <strong>MTU</strong> Series<br />
2000 M72 8V Tier 2 engines rated at 965 bhp<br />
at 2,250 rpm. According to Don Barnhart, OEM<br />
Application Support at <strong>MTU</strong> distributor W.W. Williams<br />
(Cleveland, Ohio), Kaho and Muskie feature<br />
several unique characteristics for USGS vessels.<br />
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Marine<br />
“USGS already uses <strong>MTU</strong> engines to power<br />
other research vessels, but these are the first<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> Series 2000s in their fleet and the first to be<br />
installed by Great Lakes Shipyard. Kaho and<br />
Muskie are also the first aluminum boats to be<br />
built by Great Lakes,” he says.<br />
Floating laboratories<br />
R/Vs Kaho and Muskie will continue to perform<br />
the important scientific research work of its predecessor<br />
on Lake Ontario. Studies conducted<br />
aboard the old Kaho documented the spread of<br />
invasive zebra and quagga mussels, and was also<br />
used to collect fish and environmental samples<br />
for a wide spectrum of studies, including the<br />
Great Lakes Fish Contaminants Monitoring Program<br />
in cooperation with U.S Environmental Protection<br />
Agency. R/V Muskie’s predecessor was<br />
the primary USGS research platform on Lake Erie,<br />
providing scientific information relevant to the<br />
restoration, enhancement, management and<br />
protection of fishery resources in Lake Erie<br />
since 1960.<br />
lic gillnet lifters. An A-frame provides options for<br />
stern gear deployment and lifting, and a knuckle<br />
crane facilitates the transfer of large loads and<br />
specialized sampling needs. Each ship’s propulsion<br />
and power plant systems are designed for<br />
quiet operation. Twin propellers, a bow thruster,<br />
and hydraulic anchor winch provide a variety of<br />
options for stationary sampling. Onboard sample<br />
processing and storage is supported with a<br />
stainless steelwork bench in the wet laboratory,<br />
motion compensating balance, chemical storage<br />
locker, cold and hot water supply, clean AC<br />
power supply, and large freezer capacity. Navigation,<br />
weather, and winch operation data are<br />
supplied to the dry lab area and can be integrated<br />
electronically with data from scientific<br />
sensors to support a wide range of project<br />
needs. To ensure business communications<br />
while underway, the ship is also equipped with<br />
a 3G/4G cellular modem and WiFi network.<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> the engine of choice<br />
Series 2000 engines were ideal for the 70-ft<br />
long, 18-ft beam aluminum hulls, which can hit<br />
17 knots — fast for vessels in this class. Although<br />
they comfortably carry six crewmembers for up<br />
to five days at sea, space aboard the vessels is<br />
limited — another reason <strong>MTU</strong> was the engine<br />
supplier of choice. “The <strong>MTU</strong> engines were selected<br />
for their size relative to horsepower, fuel<br />
economy and low engine noise level. The com-<br />
GLSC crews have quietly played a vital role in protecting and preserving the Great Lakes’ ecosystem<br />
for almost a century.<br />
The new research vessels are similarly equipped<br />
and support the widest possible range of scientific<br />
sampling activities. The main winch system<br />
allows deployment of multiple towed trawls,<br />
sonar devices, gliders, plankton nets and more.<br />
Precision fishing can be done at specified depths<br />
with an integrated net control system and hydraupact<br />
8V configuration was perfect for the vessels’<br />
engine rooms, which were designed to be as<br />
small as possible to maximize room for the crew<br />
and equipment,” Barnhart explains, who says he<br />
looks forward to more opportunities to supply<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> engines to Great Lakes Shipyard<br />
and the USGS.<br />
R/V Muskie Captain Tim Cherry, P.E., says, “The<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> 8V-2000 M72 main diesel engines demonstrated<br />
excellent performance during the sea trials<br />
for the R/V Muskie and R/V Kaho. These smaller<br />
and lighter engines for the delivered horsepower<br />
were a nice fit for our shallow draft, fast research<br />
vessel design. Observed exhaust emissions and<br />
engine vibrations were a lot lower than what we<br />
anticipated during sea trials. The full speed ahead,<br />
astern, and crash stop sea trial tests went extremely<br />
smooth and exceeded all our expectations.”<br />
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R/V Kaho and its sister vessel R/V Muskie are equipped<br />
with wet laboratories and sophisticated gear to collect,<br />
analyze, monitor and communicate critical information<br />
about fishery, aquatic and coastal resources.<br />
MEMO<br />
The new Kaho and Muskie ensure that GLSC<br />
maintains its status as the only organization in the<br />
US and Canada with a research vessel possessing<br />
deepwater capability on each of the Great Lakes.<br />
That makes the Center unique in its ability to conduct<br />
comparative offshore field studies on fish<br />
population dynamics and related topics. “We’ve<br />
been out there for almost a century and are often<br />
first to detect an invasive species,” says Strach.<br />
Reliable, light and dynamic<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> series 2000 engines are available in 8, 10, 12 and 16-cylinder configurations. Depending on<br />
the cylinder configuration, in commercial applications they produce 400kW to 1,440kW at a top<br />
speed of 2,000rpm. These engines are ahead of the field with features such as 2.8kg/kW power-toweight<br />
ratio (<strong>MTU</strong> Type 8V2000M72) and advanced dynamic characteristics which deliver excellent<br />
acceleration and maneuverability. In addition, an extremely well developed global service<br />
network ensures reliable maintenance<br />
and high-level engine availability.<br />
That’s good news for the Great Lakes. Bad news<br />
for Asian Carp.<br />
Words: Mike Principato<br />
Pictures: Getty Images, Rita Lewchanin<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> 8V Series 2000 M72<br />
engines are used to propel<br />
the vessel.<br />
To find out more, contact:<br />
Jeff Sherman, jeff.sherman@mtu-online.com<br />
Tel. +1 504 467-3811<br />
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<strong>Energy</strong><br />
Compact cogeneration modules dry malt for beer brewing<br />
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Cheers!<br />
Undoubtedly, if the Oktoberfest were<br />
held 70 times a year it would keep a<br />
lot of people happy. As well as bumping<br />
up beer sales to about 538 million<br />
liters. To produce that amount<br />
you would need not just hops, water<br />
and yeast but around 86,000 tonnes<br />
of malt. That is precisely how much<br />
the malt producer Durst Malz makes<br />
at its malting works in Gernsheim<br />
every year. The malt is dried with<br />
the aid energy produced by two modular<br />
CHP plants supplied by <strong>MTU</strong><br />
<strong>Onsite</strong> <strong>Energy</strong>.<br />
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1<br />
1 Every year Durst Malz produces roughly<br />
200,000 tonnes of malt, of which 86,000 tonnes<br />
are made at its facility in Gernsheim.<br />
2 Peter Grüner, Sales Manager, Germany, for Gas<br />
Power Systems at <strong>MTU</strong> <strong>Onsite</strong> <strong>Energy</strong> in conversation<br />
with plant manager, Berthold Klee.<br />
3 A sort of gigantic vacuum cleaner sucks the grain<br />
out of the ship’s hold at a rate of 60 to 80 tonnes per<br />
hour.<br />
4 Before the barley goes into the storage silo, laboratory<br />
technician Barbara Secker checks its quality.<br />
2<br />
3<br />
4<br />
Have you ever heard of an employer that offers its<br />
staff an in-house aromatic sauna? Temperatures<br />
up to 85 degrees Celsius, an atmosphere infused<br />
with fragrances redolent of roasted malt and<br />
magnificent views of the Odenwald forest from<br />
the top of the tower. Sounds like a glorious healthspa<br />
experience. But actually we are in the core<br />
facility of the Durst Malz malting works in Gernsheim<br />
am Rhein in the German state of Hessen.<br />
This is where the third of the ingredients allowed<br />
in the making of beer according to the German<br />
Reinheitsgebot (“Purity Law”) of 1516 in addition<br />
to hops and water is made, i.e. malt. Malt is made<br />
from grain, primarily barley, and is the ingredient<br />
mostly responsible for the flavor of beer. This<br />
“aromatic sauna” is where the malt is dried before<br />
being stored in silos up to 50 meters high or<br />
sent out to breweries.<br />
Founded in 1824, Durst Malz has developed<br />
over nearly two hundred years from a family business<br />
to a leading malt producer. Since October<br />
2011 it has been part of the French malt-making<br />
group Soufflet, the second largest malt manufacturer<br />
in the world. The head offices of Durst<br />
Malz are in Bruchsal-Heidelsheim and there are<br />
additional sites in Castrop-Rauxel and Gernsheim.<br />
Every year Durst Malz produces roughly<br />
200,000 tonnes of malt, of which 86,000 tonnes<br />
are made in Gernsheim. “Here in Gernsheim we<br />
only process barley,” reveals plant manager and<br />
master brewer Berthold Klee. In a display cabinet<br />
in his office there are several bottles and cans of<br />
the Japanese beers “Sapporo” and “Kirin”. Major<br />
German brewers also buy the malt for their beers<br />
from Durst Malz. And the company exports to<br />
countries including Namibia, South Africa, Guatemala<br />
and the USA.<br />
Barley germination the decisive stage<br />
Klee has no time for any more explanations just<br />
now. There is a cargo ship carrying 1,000 tons<br />
of barley in its hold waiting to be unloaded at the<br />
company’s own wharf. The in-house laboratory<br />
has already given the go-ahead. “They check the<br />
barley for grain size and test its moisture and protein<br />
content. However, the decisive factor is the<br />
capacity of the grain to germinate,” explains the<br />
six-footer. Germination is the decisive stage in<br />
making the barley suitable for use in brewing.<br />
During germination, enzymes are formed which<br />
help to convert the starch contained in the barley<br />
into malt sugar in the brewing process. In the<br />
subsequent fermentation process, the malt sugar<br />
is turned into alcohol with the aid of yeast. “Although<br />
the original grain contains enzymes, they<br />
are nowhere near enough to convert the starch<br />
into malt sugar,” Klee explains. The rest of what<br />
he says is suddenly drowned out by a deafening<br />
noise. There is a droning and rumbling coming<br />
from the ship’s hold. Incalculable quantities of<br />
the ochre-colored grains disappear at lightning<br />
speed up a gigantic vacuum pipe swinging vertically<br />
above the cargo. The vacuum delivers 60 to<br />
80 tonnes of barley an hour to one of the round<br />
storage silos via a conveyor belt. “The ship will be<br />
empty in one and a half days,” shouts Klee in an<br />
attempt to make himself heard over the din.<br />
Steam bath and aromatic sauna<br />
If you want to find your way to Durst Malz, there’s<br />
no need for sat nav – just scan the horizon. The<br />
slim silos that store the barley and the finished<br />
malt reach as high as 50 meters skywards and<br />
can be seen from a long way off. From the silos,<br />
the barley is conveyed to one of the three germination<br />
towers, which are about three times the<br />
diameter of the silos. The germination tower is<br />
the core facility of the malting works because it<br />
is here that the barley is made into malt. The process<br />
starts at the top and ends at the ground floor<br />
of the tower. We take the lift to the ninth floor<br />
where Klee wants to check on production with<br />
production manager Konrad Lord. “Be careful, it’s<br />
wet in here,” he warns when we are on the top<br />
floor, before opening the heavy door giving<br />
access to the inside. The most obvious sight is a<br />
large circular area containing 250 tonnes of barley.<br />
The ceiling is covered with droplets of water<br />
and air humidity is high. It is like in a steam bath.<br />
“This is what we call a germination box,” explains<br />
Klee, his eyes concealed by steam-covered<br />
glasses. “There are two more of them on the<br />
seventh and fifth floors.” By this time the sheets<br />
in his pad are starting to curl up from the damp.<br />
Before the barley starts germinating here, it is<br />
soaked in water in large steeping tubs. It has a<br />
water content of 45 percent when it is moved to<br />
the germination box and it is left there to germinate<br />
for six days. To make sure it germinates as<br />
evenly as possible, it is kept constantly moist and<br />
aerated and regularly turned. “Basically, what we<br />
are doing, is no different from when someone<br />
waters seeds in a tray on the window-sill at home,<br />
allows them to germinate and then uses them to<br />
add flavor to the salad,” Klee reveals. “Except that<br />
we stop the germination process after six days<br />
and then dry the grain out. And, of course, we are<br />
talking about entirely different scales,” Lord adds.<br />
He takes a sample with a long scoop. Out of<br />
every grain a new, whitish shoot is emerging.<br />
“Tomorrow, this barley will be ready, so we will<br />
stop the germination process and move it one<br />
floor down for drying,” the production manager<br />
continues.<br />
Third floor of the germination tower. “Nice and<br />
warm in here,” observes Klee. Another heavy door<br />
leads into the aromatic sauna. We are met by the<br />
sweet smell of malt and the welcoming warmth<br />
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<strong>Energy</strong><br />
«When the barley is moved from the steeping<br />
tub to the germination tower it has a water<br />
content of 45 percent. »<br />
Konrad Lord, production manager<br />
Before the barley starts germinating in<br />
one of the three germination towers, it is<br />
soaked in water in large steeping tubs.<br />
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<strong>Energy</strong><br />
«We need the thermal energy from the CHP<br />
modules for the drying process. »<br />
Plant manager, Berthold Klee<br />
The CHP modules from <strong>MTU</strong> <strong>Onsite</strong><br />
<strong>Energy</strong> come into their own in the<br />
drying kiln.<br />
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Production manager, Konrad Lord, on<br />
one of his inspection tours of the CHP<br />
plants.
<strong>MTU</strong> Brown <strong>MTU</strong> Brown<br />
0-17-28-62 80% der Farbe<br />
CMYK CMYK<br />
60%<br />
CMYK<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> Blue <strong>MTU</strong> Blue<br />
60%<br />
50-25-0-10 80% der Farbe<br />
CMYK<br />
CMYK CMYK<br />
40%<br />
CMYK<br />
40%<br />
CMYK<br />
20%<br />
CMYK<br />
20%<br />
CMYK<br />
1<br />
of 65 degrees Celsius. Though for a relaxing spa<br />
experience it is rather too noisy. Two fans loudly<br />
blast 152,000 cubic meters of air an hour through<br />
the kiln, as it is known, to dry the malt. There is<br />
another kiln on the ground floor of the tower.<br />
The temperature gets as high as 85 degrees Celsius<br />
there. The moisture content, meantime,<br />
drops from 45 to just four percent. Drying malt<br />
gives the room a caramel-colored coating. This is<br />
precisely where the two natural-gas fueled combined<br />
heat and power (CHP) modules supplied<br />
by <strong>MTU</strong> <strong>Onsite</strong> <strong>Energy</strong> come into their own. “We<br />
need an enormous amount of heat for the drying<br />
process,” explains Klee. A water boiler supplies<br />
up to six megawatts. It is helped out by the two<br />
Type GC 357 N5 CHP modules, which produce<br />
around one megawatt of thermal energy. To operate<br />
as energy-efficiently as possible, the malting<br />
works also uses “waste products” to heat the<br />
air, for example by recovering heat from the CHP<br />
plants and recycling the exhaust air from the<br />
drying process. The latter is used to preheat the<br />
fresh air for the kilns in a heat exchanger before<br />
the CHP modules are brought in to raise the temperature<br />
above 60 degrees Celsius. Only at 85 degrees,<br />
the maximum temperature in the drying<br />
process, is energy required from the heating boiler.<br />
The roughly 700 kilowatts of electricity that<br />
the energy modules generate in addition to the<br />
heat is fed into the plant’s internal power grid.<br />
“A malting works requires a very large amount of<br />
energy, so it is the ideal place to use CHP modules,”<br />
the plant manager observes. As well as<br />
800 cubic meters of water a day – by comparison,<br />
a family of four uses about 150 cubic meters a<br />
year – the maltings consumes four to five million<br />
kilowatt-hours of gas and 800,000 to 900,000 kilowatt-hours<br />
of electricity a month.<br />
CHP modules run almost nonstop<br />
Klee is on his way to the basement of the germination<br />
tower where the CHP plants are accommodated.<br />
“The 3,000-hour service for the two<br />
modules is due today. Since they were installed<br />
in July 2011, these plants have been running<br />
Britain<br />
France<br />
Belgium<br />
Netherlands<br />
Germany<br />
Gernsheim<br />
Switzerland<br />
Italy<br />
Austria<br />
MAP<br />
Czech<br />
Republic<br />
virtually nonstop for roughly 23 hours a day. They<br />
are only switched off when the staff change over<br />
the barley in the kiln. We aim to get 180,000 to<br />
200,000 kilowatt-hours a month out of each<br />
module.” Unfortunately, Klee arrives too late –<br />
regional service manager Andreas Häusser from<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> <strong>Onsite</strong> <strong>Energy</strong> Augsburg has already finished.<br />
“All in perfect order,” he declares with satisfaction<br />
while cleaning the oil from his hands. So how<br />
did Durst Malz come upon <strong>MTU</strong> <strong>Onsite</strong> <strong>Energy</strong>?<br />
“Through the building services installers Helmut<br />
Herbert GmbH who installed the heating boiler for<br />
us. Helmut Herbert have worked closely with <strong>MTU</strong><br />
<strong>Onsite</strong> <strong>Energy</strong> for a number of years,” explains<br />
the plant manager. “We know that Herbert have<br />
very solid and reliable partners so we decided to<br />
buy CHP modules from Augsburg to replace our<br />
old plants from a different supplier – and we are<br />
absolutely satisfied with them.” <strong>MTU</strong> <strong>Onsite</strong> <strong>Energy</strong><br />
supplied the central components of the installation<br />
– the CHP modules and the associated<br />
electrical switchgear. “Each module consists of<br />
a gas engine, a generator, an exhaust heat exchanger,<br />
exhaust silencer, module controller and<br />
power control cabinet. All of that is mounted on<br />
a baseframe and ready-piped and wired,” elucidates<br />
Peter Grüner, Sales Manager, Germany,<br />
for Gas Power Systems at <strong>MTU</strong> <strong>Onsite</strong> <strong>Energy</strong>.<br />
“As our client, Helmut Herbert then installed the<br />
plants at Durst Malz together with all the associated<br />
services on site, i.e. air supply system, exhaust<br />
system, lubrication oil supply, connection to<br />
the natural gas supply, and heating and electrical<br />
connections. Commissioning was then carried out<br />
by our specialists from Augsburg.”<br />
Different for every client<br />
A piercing squeak intrusively interrupts the conversation.<br />
Klee is up and off again. A goods train<br />
with five wagons is just arriving at the loading<br />
point. The tracks run right through the middle of<br />
the factory grounds. The consignment is destined<br />
for Switzerland. Five hundred tons of barley malt a<br />
week are shipped to the Swiss Federation alone.<br />
Another 500 tons a month are dispatched by rail<br />
to a brewery in the Sauerland. “No client is supplied<br />
the same malt as another. Every customer<br />
has their own ideas on the characteristics of the<br />
end product,” the plant manager reveals. As many<br />
as 20 different parameters have to be considered,<br />
including color, water content, viscosity and pH<br />
level.<br />
The malting works processes 8,000 to<br />
9,000 tonnes of barley a month and production<br />
continues 365 days a year, summer and winter.<br />
“Output is higher in the summer of course, because<br />
people simply drink more at that time of<br />
the year.” In Germany, the per-capita consumption<br />
of beer is about 107 liters. Only water and<br />
1 Lord takes a sample with a long scoop to check the<br />
barley’s germination progress.<br />
2 The barley is allowed to germinate for six days<br />
before it is dried.<br />
coffee outdo the brewer’s beverage in terms of<br />
consumption. So are the weeks leading up to the<br />
Oktoberfest the high season for malt production?<br />
“No,” smiles Klee impishly, explaining that though<br />
the event was certainly a gigantic beer swilling<br />
occasion for Munich, it was simply subsumed<br />
within the normal summer production. To put<br />
it in context, visitors to the 2011 Oktoberfest<br />
downed around 7.5 million liters of beer. Each<br />
year the Durst Malz facility in Gernsheim produces<br />
enough malt for roughly 538 million liters –<br />
that is enough for more than 70 Oktoberfests!<br />
Words: Katrin Hanger<br />
pictures: Marcel Mayer<br />
To find out more, contact:<br />
Peter Grüner<br />
peter.gruener@mtu-online.com<br />
Tel. +49 6134 564 860<br />
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<strong>MTU</strong> products support economic growth in Turkey<br />
<strong>Energy</strong> sights<br />
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<strong>MTU</strong> Brown <strong>MTU</strong> Brown<br />
0-17-28-62 80% der Farbe 60%<br />
CMYK CMYK CMYK<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> Blue <strong>MTU</strong> Blue<br />
60%<br />
50-25-0-10 80% der Farbe<br />
CMYK<br />
CMYK CMYK<br />
40%<br />
CMYK<br />
40%<br />
CMYK<br />
20%<br />
CMYK<br />
20%<br />
CMYK<br />
<strong>Energy</strong><br />
Hagia Sophia Mosque, the bazaar and<br />
Topkapi Palace are places that would<br />
feature on a list of must-see sights for<br />
tourists visiting Istanbul. Turk Telekom,<br />
Galata Bridge, IDO Ferries, Divan<br />
Hotel and Emsey Hospital, on the other<br />
hand are places you might pick out if<br />
you were following a street map that<br />
showed the locations of all the <strong>MTU</strong><br />
and <strong>MTU</strong> <strong>Onsite</strong> <strong>Energy</strong> products in<br />
use in this 2,500-year-old metropolis.<br />
Bulgaria<br />
Black Sea<br />
MAP<br />
Greece<br />
Aegean<br />
Sea<br />
Istanbul<br />
Ankara<br />
Turkey
<strong>Energy</strong><br />
Nurettin Kayabaşı, Marine Engineer Superintendent at IDO, and IDO Chief Engineer, Turgut Turan (right), look over an <strong>MTU</strong> Series 8000 engine in a car ferry.<br />
The biggest ship, the car ferry Orhan<br />
Gazi, has four <strong>MTU</strong> Series 8000 propulsion<br />
units each capable of 9,100 kilowatts<br />
in the engine room.<br />
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An animated mixture<br />
of ancient and modern –<br />
that is the flavor of the<br />
city of Istanbul.<br />
The Turkish economy is growing. The country is<br />
already among the leaders in many industries.<br />
By 2023, the 100th anniversary of the founding<br />
of the Republic, Prime Minister Erdoğan aims to<br />
have established Turkey as one of the top ten<br />
national economies in the world. The key to that<br />
ambition is energy – because growth demands<br />
power. But due to the rapid rate at which demand<br />
is rising, the power grid in Turkey is not always<br />
stable. <strong>MTU</strong> <strong>Onsite</strong> <strong>Energy</strong> is a sought-after<br />
partner for gas-engine continuous-duty generators<br />
and diesel-driven emergency backup generators<br />
in the Turkish private sector. “To date we<br />
have installed 105 megawatts of system capacity<br />
supplied by <strong>MTU</strong> <strong>Onsite</strong> <strong>Energy</strong>, and we added<br />
55 units in the last year alone,” reports Ali<br />
Güzel, Director of Sales and Marketing at <strong>MTU</strong><br />
Turkey. The company is valued by end clients as<br />
a system supplier of tailor-made emergency and<br />
continous power supply solutions, offered by the<br />
Series 2000 and 4000 gas engines. According to<br />
the Turkish Electricity Transmission Company, the<br />
electricity demand in Turkey will rise by six percent<br />
a year between 2009 and 2023. The aim is<br />
an installed capacity of 125,000 megawatts. By<br />
comparison, the figure was 54,423 MW in 2010.<br />
In Istanbul especially, the energy need is acute.<br />
This is where most of the foreign companies have<br />
established their bases. One fifth of the Turkish<br />
population lives here. And anyone who has experienced<br />
this city understands its attraction –<br />
lively and animated, a noisy mixture of oriental<br />
flair and western lifestyle, Istanbul has visitors instantly<br />
under its spell. No other city in the world<br />
spans the junction of two continents – Europe<br />
and Asia. Just looking down on the city from an<br />
airplane, the dominant role of the Marmara Sea<br />
is clearly evident. That maritime influence is even<br />
more immediately apparent to anyone arriving<br />
from another town across the Bosporus on one<br />
of the 20 ships in the fleet of ferry operator IDO.<br />
IDO is the only ferry company that offers a highspeed<br />
ferry service from Istanbul over the straits<br />
between Europe and Asia Minor. In 2011, IDO<br />
carried roughly 52 million passengers and<br />
7.5 million vehicles across the Bosporus on five<br />
different routes with crossing times of between<br />
one and two hours. The company does exactly<br />
what it says on the name plate – IDO stands for<br />
Istanbul Deniz Otobüsleri, which means “Istanbul<br />
Sea Ferries”. Its ships are named after important<br />
personalities from the turkish history.<br />
Biggest engines for largest ferry<br />
The largest of them, the ferryboat Orhan Gazi<br />
built in 2007, sails twice a day in winter and up<br />
to four times daily in summer across to the town<br />
of Bursa. Built by Austal, its capacity is enormous.<br />
Within its overall length of 88 meters, it<br />
can accommodate up to 1,500 passengers and<br />
300 cars. So it is no surprise that below decks<br />
in the engine room there are four of the biggest<br />
engines made by <strong>MTU</strong> – 20-cylinder Series 8000<br />
units that deliver as much as 9,100 kilowatts of<br />
power each and propel the craft at speeds up to<br />
35 knots. “The engines run very economically at<br />
that speed. That is especially important to us,”<br />
expounds Nurettin Kayabaşı, Marine Engineer<br />
Superintendent at IDO. The ship also has two<br />
Series 60 gensets each generating 600 kilowatts<br />
for the onboard power supply. The level<br />
of Kayabaşı’s satisfaction with power units from<br />
Friedrichshafen is shown by the fact that IDO has<br />
a total of 62 <strong>MTU</strong> engines in use. Almost all of<br />
their ferries are equipped with <strong>MTU</strong> propulsion<br />
and gendrive engines. The second biggest car<br />
ferry is powered by <strong>MTU</strong> Series 1163 engines,<br />
while Series 183 and 396 units can be found in<br />
the engine rooms of the smaller ferries. “The<br />
engines always deliver what our captains ask of<br />
them,” Kayabaşı enthuses.<br />
Not only ferry passengers, but anyone traveling<br />
into the city center by car or underground will<br />
also encounter the <strong>MTU</strong> name. The famous city<br />
landmark, the Galata floating bridge, has a Series<br />
183 engine to drive its emergency power generator.<br />
And in the underground station in the bustling<br />
and trendy district of Taksim another <strong>MTU</strong><br />
engine makes sure the lights never go out.<br />
Gensets assure luxury lifestyle<br />
But the public transport systems aren’t the<br />
only places where you will come across <strong>MTU</strong> engines<br />
and <strong>MTU</strong> <strong>Onsite</strong> <strong>Energy</strong> plants on a tour<br />
of the city. If you are lucky enough to be staying<br />
at the five-star Divan Hotel close to the Taksim<br />
transport interchange and Istanbul’s most famous<br />
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shopping and entertainment street, you can be<br />
equally assured that you will be able to enjoy the<br />
numerous facilities of this stylish accommodation<br />
without the disruption and inconvenience of<br />
power outages, thanks to the two 16V 4000 gensets<br />
sited on the hotel grounds that provide<br />
2,145 kilovolt-amperes of electrical energy. “This<br />
is the first time we have worked with <strong>MTU</strong> Turkey<br />
and I amdelighted that we have choosen this<br />
brand” relates Reşat Dalay, Director of Engineering<br />
at the Divan Istanbul Hotel. “For us, uninterrupted<br />
hotel service is indispensable. We can<br />
always rely on the generators doing their job if<br />
there are power cuts on the mains grid.”<br />
Seven months ago, the hotel was reopened<br />
after being completely renovated. Since then,<br />
the gensets have already been in use for nearly<br />
70 hours, sometimes for only a few seconds,<br />
on other occasions up to three and a half hours<br />
long. “We have had no problems whatsoever with<br />
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these units. I would always be in favor of using<br />
them again for a project of this type,” Dalay affirms.<br />
Inside this spacious and extensive luxury<br />
hotel, it is obvious to the observer that the gensets<br />
have plenty to do if the power goes down.<br />
There are more than 200 rooms and 33,000<br />
square meters of hotel floor space including<br />
health spa, restaurant suite and expansive lobby<br />
to be supplied with energy. To be on the safe<br />
side, the gensets are dimensioned for more output<br />
than the hotel requires at present. Having<br />
two of them also makes maintenance easier.<br />
While one is shut down, the other remains on<br />
standby and can supply a large proportion of the<br />
electricity demand. And so that hotel guests can<br />
enjoy a Turkish coffee in the lobby – here the<br />
national drink is served stylishly on a silver saucer<br />
with a small Turkish biscuit – or hold their<br />
conferences without the intrusion of noise,<br />
the gensets are housed in a purpose-designed<br />
soundproof container.<br />
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Backup for online services<br />
If you need a functioning phone, TV and internet<br />
network on your city break or for your business<br />
conference, another <strong>MTU</strong> <strong>Onsite</strong> <strong>Energy</strong> client,<br />
Türk Telekom, is responsible for providing it. Those<br />
wishing to visit the emergency backup gensets<br />
at the Istanbul head offices on their tour of the<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> sights need to be prepared for a trip five meters<br />
below ground rather than a walk around the<br />
grounds as at the Divan Hotel. These gensets are<br />
housed in a specially excav ated subterranean generator<br />
room. In July 2011, the previous generators<br />
were replaced by three 16V 4000 modules. Installation<br />
had been preceded by a demand analysis of<br />
the Turkish communications network. “With these<br />
more powerful units we have equipped ourselves<br />
for future energy requirements,” explains Ali Aydın,<br />
Chief <strong>Energy</strong> Manager at Türk Telekom. As a complete<br />
systems provider, <strong>MTU</strong> Turkey fully fitted out<br />
the 144-square-meter room with everything from<br />
the gensets to the control cabinets and electrical<br />
installations. Aydin has complete trust in the <strong>MTU</strong><br />
<strong>Onsite</strong> <strong>Energy</strong> emergency backup units: “To date<br />
they have been in operation for 22 hours without<br />
any problems whatsoever.” One of the things he<br />
especially likes is that he gets a text message as<br />
soon as a power failure happens and the gensets<br />
spring into action. In the hard-fought private telecommunications<br />
sector, the uninterrupted service<br />
offered by Türk Telekom is especially important. “I<br />
can quite definitely recommend these gensets and<br />
the speedy and thorough handling of the project.<br />
We have also ordered <strong>MTU</strong> <strong>Onsite</strong> <strong>Energy</strong> diesel<br />
gensets for our site in Erzurum, this time with<br />
Series 2000 engines,” the manager adds.<br />
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1 Reşat Dalay, Director of Engineering at the Divan Istanbul Hotel.<br />
2 Turkish coffee is very elegantly served at this five-star hotel.<br />
3 The Istanbul Divan Hotel covers 33,000 square meters of floor<br />
space. Two Series 4000 diesel gensets provide the emergency<br />
power backup.<br />
The generator units run synchronously so one can<br />
act as backup for the other. If a power cut occurs<br />
just when you are standing in the generator room,<br />
you can experience what they do at first hand.<br />
Having suddenly been plunged into darkness due<br />
to the power failure, the generators are up and<br />
running – and the lights back on again – inside<br />
nine seconds. This Türk Telekom site requires<br />
around 800 kilovolt-amperes of electricity an hour.<br />
It handles 33 percent of the internet traffic volume<br />
in Turkey. It is Türk Telekom’s third largest<br />
facility in the country. In total, Türk Telekom has<br />
roughly 5,000 individual sites which the company<br />
is gradually adapting to the ever more widely used<br />
telecommunications infrastructure by installing<br />
more powerful backup generators. After all, not<br />
only private individuals are using the phone network,<br />
GSM services, web TV and internet much<br />
more frequently. Banks, the police, the education<br />
ministry and other security services are also connected<br />
up. Unthinkable what loss of system data<br />
would mean to such Turk Telekom customers.<br />
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1 The Türk Telekom center in Istanbul is the<br />
telecommunications provider’s third largest<br />
facility in the country. It handles roughly<br />
33 percent of the internet traffic volume in<br />
Turkey.<br />
2 Ali Aydın, <strong>Energy</strong> Manager at Türk Telekom<br />
(left), was delighted with the handling of the<br />
project and the installation of the Series 4000<br />
emergency backup gensets. Furkan Yazıcı from<br />
the <strong>MTU</strong> Application Engineering Department<br />
advised Türk Telekom on the project-specific<br />
design details.<br />
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Advantages of <strong>MTU</strong> <strong>Onsite</strong><br />
<strong>Energy</strong> emergency backup<br />
gensets<br />
MEMO<br />
> Maximum reliability, rapid<br />
response to load changes, low fuel<br />
consumption and minimal emissions<br />
> Factory-configured and tested<br />
> Support from a well-established<br />
worldwide service network with over<br />
300 distribution agents, customer<br />
service centers and technical sales<br />
staff<br />
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1 The very latest equipment<br />
is a feature of the Emsey<br />
Hospital opened in<br />
April 2012 in the Asian<br />
part of Istanbul.<br />
2 Mechanic Murat Çöpçü<br />
(right) and electrician<br />
Ömer Şahin of the Emsey<br />
Hospital’s service team<br />
next to one of the three<br />
Series 2000 diesel gensets<br />
that provide the emergency<br />
power supply for the<br />
medical facility.<br />
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3 Serdar Toprak of the<br />
Sales Department at <strong>MTU</strong><br />
Turkey dimensioned the<br />
gensets in consultation<br />
with Erdal Aydın (right),<br />
the hospital’s technical<br />
manager, to be able to<br />
provide backup power for<br />
all of the technical refinements<br />
such as the latest<br />
operation room equipment.<br />
4 The illuminated colored<br />
buttons in the control<br />
room show where the<br />
power is coming from at<br />
any moment – the city’s<br />
power grid or the emergency<br />
backup gensets.
Constant energy supply a life-saver<br />
A power failure at a hospital such as the recently<br />
constructed Emsey Hospital opened in April 2012<br />
could be life-threatening. The way to the hospital<br />
leads across one of the bridges to the Asian side<br />
of Istanbul. It has 31,000 square meters of floor<br />
space, is ultra-modern, elegantly furnished, fitted<br />
out with the latest equipment and, in particular,<br />
the most advanced communication standards.<br />
Physicians in Intensive Care Unites can view<br />
entire medical histories any time on-screen at<br />
the touch of a button. Furthermore, during operations,<br />
specialists are able to share information<br />
regarding the surgery via a videoconferencing<br />
link. In addition, all necessary materials such as<br />
bandages or medications are issued exclusively<br />
using a barcode system. Patients throughout the<br />
hospital have access to an emergency button<br />
system which can be used to call a doctor for<br />
assistance not only from the wards but also from<br />
corridors. The quantity of technical refinements<br />
available in modern-day hospital care is astounding<br />
– and will undoubtedly make patients at the<br />
Emsey Hospital feel they are in good hands. In<br />
order to systematically monitor all of those functions,<br />
there are 6,700 automated checkpoints.<br />
There are also 320 safety cameras in use, to<br />
monitor patients patients in all unites. They have<br />
to be in working order all the time, as does the<br />
sophisticated alarm system. “In a hospital the is<br />
no room for power failures. But in this region the<br />
mains grid is not so reliable. So, because of its<br />
highly sophisticated technology, we made the<br />
decision to have an emergency backup system<br />
with three Series 2000 diesel-driven generators<br />
from <strong>MTU</strong> <strong>Onsite</strong> <strong>Energy</strong>,” recounts Technical<br />
Manager, Erdal Aydın.<br />
The hospital comprises roughly 200 well-appointed<br />
rooms spread over four storeys and divided<br />
into five categories from single room to king<br />
suite decorated in bright yellow and opulently<br />
furnished with plaster moldings. It has nine operating<br />
rooms on a dedicated floor and 55 examination<br />
rooms for specializations of all types including<br />
dentistry. Roughly 70 doctors will work here.<br />
Emsey Hospital is also assertive on having international<br />
patients from other countries; based on<br />
their capabilities and close location to Sabiha<br />
Gokçen International Airport. As well as the emergency<br />
backup gensets, the hospital also has one<br />
Series 4000 gas engines supplied by <strong>MTU</strong> <strong>Onsite</strong><br />
<strong>Energy</strong> that drive continuous duty generators. The<br />
Emsey Hospital needs 30,000 kilowatts of electricity<br />
every day. If you want to see its silver-painted<br />
generator units, you need to take a walk through<br />
the grounds again, as at the Divan Hotel. There<br />
they stand next to the diesel gensets inside their<br />
own soundproofed building, so the patients are<br />
blissfully unaware if the backup generators have<br />
to be called upon to supply their full capacity and<br />
ensure smooth operation of the hospital despite<br />
a power grid failure.<br />
Istanbul’s cityscape is bright and colorful. And it demands more and more energy because not only the economy<br />
is booming. One fifth of the Turkish population now lives in the city on the Bosporus.<br />
Multiple energy supply backup<br />
The electricity for the hospital is supplied via two<br />
separate cables – an initial safeguard in case one<br />
of the cables fails. As a second insurance policy,<br />
the 1,100-kilowatt diesel gensets are permanently<br />
on standby and can be started up inside seven<br />
seconds to ensure the supply of life-sustaining<br />
electricity is maintained. Within twelve seconds,<br />
all three of the diesel power-backup gensets are<br />
running in parallel. If only two of them are required<br />
to supply the present demand, one of<br />
them is automatically shut down again – a big<br />
plus in terms of energy-efficiency. The first seven<br />
seconds after a power outage are covered by a<br />
UPS. The emergency backup gensets have been<br />
in place since November last year and were comprehensively<br />
tested in January this year. “So far<br />
they have already been in action for ten hours<br />
following grid outages, and they have always<br />
responded,” Aydin summarizes.<br />
These are only some of the tracks left behind<br />
by the engines and gensets supplied by <strong>MTU</strong><br />
and <strong>MTU</strong> <strong>Onsite</strong> <strong>Energy</strong> on the banks of the<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> Turkey and its market position<br />
Bosporus. More are added almost on a weekly<br />
basis. For example, IKEA Istanbul has emergency<br />
backup generators supplied by <strong>MTU</strong> Turkey, as<br />
do Akbank’s gigantic office tower, the Mercedes-<br />
Benz bus factory and textile producer Özdoku<br />
Acıbadem Hospitals. So those seeking out<br />
the <strong>MTU</strong> energy sights in Istanbul should always<br />
make sure they have the most up-to-date guide.<br />
Words: Anika Kannler<br />
Pictures: Robert Hack<br />
To find out more, contact:<br />
Ali Güzel (Sales Director, <strong>MTU</strong> Turkey)<br />
ali.guzel@mtu-online.com<br />
Tel. +90 212 867 2080<br />
<strong>Energy</strong><br />
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There has been an <strong>MTU</strong> service workshop for spare parts installation, maintenance and complete overhaul of <strong>MTU</strong><br />
engines in Turkey since 1985. In the past year, the staff there overhauled more than 200 engines, including some<br />
custom-tailored units. The majority of them were marine and tank engines used by the Turkish Armed Forces. In<br />
2002, the company moved to a new building providing office space, test benches and workshops in the Hadimköy<br />
district of Istanbul. Cylinder liners for the <strong>MTU</strong> Series 4000 engines have been made here since 2009. Since its entry<br />
into the <strong>Onsite</strong> <strong>Energy</strong> market one and a half years ago, <strong>MTU</strong> Turkey has become an important player in the market.<br />
The brand is positioned as a system supplier of tailor-made solutions and has built up a solid base in the continuous<br />
power segment for gas engines.<br />
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Interview with head of <strong>MTU</strong> service Christian Beiner<br />
”More than engines”<br />
The times are long past that engines were judged solely on<br />
the basis of power output and price. Today, customers have<br />
to make a profit from the vehicles and machines they run.<br />
Readiness for use, operating costs and availability are the<br />
watchwords. The vital ingredient in all of these things is<br />
service. The service concept has undergone profound change<br />
in recent years. A shift has taken place from situation-based<br />
problem-solving to agreements for comprehensive customer<br />
support. Christian Beiner has been worldwide head of<br />
<strong>MTU</strong>’s service business for a year now. In this interview, he<br />
talks about the aspirations of the global service team, trends<br />
in service and what fascinates him about his work.<br />
What is your idea of good service?<br />
Tognum’s mission is to set the standard as the preferred partner<br />
for power generation and drive solutions. That also includes<br />
service. We want our customers to buy our products not only because<br />
of their technological superiority, but because we provide<br />
them with outstanding all-round service, anywhere in the world.<br />
I set a high premium on 'peace of mind'. We don’t just want to sell<br />
engines, systems and service products to our customers, we want<br />
them to rest in the knowledge that we are there for them at all<br />
times, above all in critical situations.<br />
And what are your plans for meeting that target?<br />
We focus our activities on four areas. Obviously, ensuring spare<br />
parts availability, expanding our remanufacturing capabilities,<br />
«We want our provide our customers<br />
with outstanding all-round service, anywhere<br />
in the world. »<br />
lowering engine life-cycle costs, improving logistics and building<br />
more training centers form the foundation. Those are the building<br />
blocks of customer service. Then comes qualifying our service<br />
partners and expanding our service network and business in<br />
countries where we have customers and see potential. Our third<br />
mainstay is developing services such as remote tracking, diagnosis,<br />
and condition-based maintenance. But above all, we aim for<br />
greater customer confidence.<br />
How do you make <strong>MTU</strong> Service globally accessible?<br />
We already have over 1,200 service outlets worldwide, many of<br />
them in remote locations. One example is Manaus in Brazil, a<br />
budding metropolis in the state of Amazonas which was without<br />
any major power supply infrastructure. Here, our customers<br />
have erected several power stations containing hundreds of gensets<br />
based on our Series 4000 engines. In the space of just a few<br />
months we worked with <strong>MTU</strong> do Brazil, our subsidiary, to create<br />
an infrastructure for keeping those power stations up and running<br />
– we set up a workshop, trained personnel, invested in tools and<br />
spare parts and organized a 24/7 service. In other areas where<br />
there is no adequate service structure in place, we work with the<br />
globally operating OEMs. We provide them with qualifications and<br />
the authorization to carry out service so that they can maintain<br />
our engines using their own systems.<br />
How important are the qualifications of service staff?<br />
Very important, if not crucial. We have over 1,400 of our own service<br />
staff and a good 2,000 more in distribution and service outlets.<br />
These co-workers have daily contact with customers and<br />
play an important role representing the company. Irrespective of<br />
whether they are direct employees or work in subsidiaries or for<br />
partners, all of them regularly attend training courses and must<br />
pass a test at the end of them. Only those who pass the tests are<br />
permitted to carry out work on <strong>MTU</strong> engines and systems. And we<br />
are constantly expanding our training repertoire. Greater emphasis<br />
is being placed on electronics, electrical engineering, project<br />
management and communication. Our co-workers are aware of<br />
how crucial service is to our company. It makes a substantial contribution<br />
to revenue, helps to stabilize business, especially when<br />
the economy is slack, and is important for customer bonding.<br />
Many customers wish to service their engines and systems<br />
themselves and are trained by <strong>MTU</strong> staff in special training<br />
centers. Where are these training centers located?<br />
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Christian Beiner has been head of the <strong>MTU</strong> and <strong>MTU</strong><br />
<strong>Onsite</strong> <strong>Energy</strong> Service business since the end of 2010.<br />
After-sales
“You have the concepts of<br />
‘Value’ and ‘Care’. ‘Value’<br />
stands for the added value<br />
which we offer the customer.<br />
‘Care’ means that we<br />
take care of the customer<br />
and his interests”, Christian<br />
Beiner explains.<br />
We have a total of 28 training centers on all five continents. The<br />
latest one was opened last September in the USA. Besides customers,<br />
distributors train in our centers too so that they can give<br />
courses in their own facilities using our concept.<br />
Apart from buying brand-new <strong>MTU</strong> engines or spare parts,<br />
the customer also has the option of purchasing a remanufactured<br />
engine or component. He returns his used part or<br />
engine and receives a completely re-conditioned engine or<br />
part. What is the benefit?<br />
Remanufacturing has a whole lot of advantages. A customer<br />
sends back his used engine, or even just a part, and receives in<br />
return an engine or part that we have re-conditioned to the proven<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> quality standard. Only this time, he gets his engine or part<br />
more quickly than he would a new product, and at a much more<br />
favorable price. He also benefits from the same warranty cover as<br />
for a new engine or part. The remanufacturing process is also interesting<br />
from an environment point of view. All too often, engines<br />
and parts are disposed of when they could be re-conditioned at a<br />
reasonable price and used again.<br />
Central to good service is the supply of spare parts. If they<br />
don’t have the right component, service staff can neither<br />
repair nor service an engine. How do you go about making<br />
sure that spare parts are always available?<br />
The provision of spare parts is the be-all and end-all of service.<br />
And it’s getting more complicated. Since we constantly expand<br />
our product portfolio, we have a growing number of variables to<br />
handle. At the same time, our sales force has the job of ensuring<br />
that our engine populations grow at a healthy rate. And we have<br />
customers operating our engines in all four corners of the globe.<br />
To underpin all that, we are investing heavily in logistics and interlinking<br />
our spare parts warehouses in the US, Germany and Asia<br />
through a common IT system. Soon we are planning to integrate<br />
the spare parts inventories of our subsidiaries into that system<br />
to create a global on-line warehouse which I would compare with<br />
Amazon’s electronic commerce company. There, you can<br />
order a product from anywhere and have it delivered promptly<br />
from whichever stock it’s available in.<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> calls its service portfolio ‘<strong>MTU</strong> ValueCare’. What does<br />
that mean exactly?<br />
You have the concepts of ‘Value’ and ‘Care’. ‘Value’ stands for<br />
the added value which we offer the customer. ‘Care’ means that<br />
we take care of the customer and his interests. We build up<br />
‘Value-Care’ as needed by a region or individual customer and<br />
consider it important not to supply the same performance package<br />
to everyone. Although all customers basically want the same<br />
things – reliability and swift, expert assistance at a competitive<br />
price – you can hardly compare the service needs of a yacht<br />
owner with those of a mine operator. That’s why we have given<br />
ValueCare a modular structure and divided it into three areas –<br />
‘ValueService’, ‘ValueSpares’ and ‘ValueExchange’. ‘ValueSpares’<br />
is about high availability and swift delivery of top-quality spare<br />
parts and consumables. ‘ValueExchange’ refers to our repertoire<br />
for remanufacturing parts and assembling and delivering complet-<br />
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After-sales<br />
ely re-conditioned engines. Our third mainstay is ‘ValueService’,<br />
covering the traditional service jobs such as supplying spare parts<br />
and supporting customers, as well as the more complex task of<br />
compiling all-inclusive service and maintenance agreements.<br />
For which products is service available?<br />
For all engines, drive and propulsion systems and power generation<br />
systems that we sell without exception, irrespective of whether we<br />
manufacture them ourselves or purchase them from partners.<br />
Does 'without exception' also apply to engines at the lower<br />
end of the power range?<br />
Today, we directly provide warranties and servicing for engines at<br />
the lower end of the power range – currently the Series 460, 500<br />
and 900 units. Mercedes, our partners in the <strong>MTU</strong> service network,<br />
have also given us access to over 250 of their service workshops.<br />
With the support of our new majority shareholders, we<br />
are intending to build on that partnership. At the same time, we<br />
are currently analyzing how we can use the existing Daimler and<br />
Rolls-Royce service networks in locations where we are not adequately<br />
represented.<br />
What direction will service take in the next few years?<br />
There is growing emphasis on achieving the right mix of globalization<br />
and regionalization. We have to provide service locally all<br />
over the world, but to global standards. And our customers expect<br />
excellence, even in the most remote locations. Furthermore,<br />
they are tending more and more to look beyond purchase price at<br />
the overall life-cycle costs of a drive or power generation system.<br />
Apart from the purchase price, these include costs for maintenance<br />
and the consumption of fuel and other fluids and lubricants.<br />
We are constantly searching for solutions that improve reliability<br />
and availability and lower the operating costs of our engines and<br />
systems so that our customers can be more successful.<br />
And what are the technological trends?<br />
The move is definitely towards greater use of the possibilities<br />
of IT – not only for knowledge management and better warehouse<br />
logistics, but also for putting our engines and systems<br />
on-line. It certainly won’t be long before our engines are allocated<br />
IP addresses and linked up to a global master system. That<br />
will enable us to compare actual and target engine data and give<br />
specific maintenance advice for raising availability and lowering<br />
life cycle costs even further. Initial steps have already been taken<br />
with our remote systems for gas engines and plants, but we still<br />
have a long way to go.<br />
To close, a more personal question. You're a well-known<br />
face at <strong>MTU</strong> and familiar with a lot of customers. Where<br />
have you worked in the company to date?<br />
I’ve actually spent my whole career within the group. I started at<br />
Mercedes as an apprentice mechanic, then I studied engineering<br />
and was taken on by <strong>MTU</strong>, where I first worked on developing gasturbine<br />
drive systems. I was also involved in the propulsion system<br />
project for the Destiero yacht and it was then that I came into<br />
«It certainly won’t be long before our<br />
engines are allocated IP addresses and linked<br />
up to a global master system. »<br />
close contact with customers, which was not necessarily always<br />
a pleasant experience. It was then that I noticed how much I enjoyed<br />
identifying customer challenges and coming up with solutions.<br />
As a project engineer in marine propulsion, then as head of<br />
sales, and more recently as head of applications engineering,<br />
I have had a great deal of customer contact. I took the lead of our<br />
worldwide service business at the end of 2010 and am also<br />
responsible for <strong>MTU</strong>’s global service and sales network.<br />
What appeals to you about your work?<br />
Working in an international organization with colleagues, staff,<br />
partners and customers of different origins, who have diverse<br />
talents as well as different outlooks and needs. I also find it<br />
inspiring to take on a new departmental area and shape it for<br />
the future with strong backing from senior management.<br />
Interview: Lucie Dammann; Pictures: Stefan Sölll<br />
To find out more, contact:<br />
Christian Beiner<br />
christian.beiner@mtu-online.com<br />
Tel. +49 7541 90-3451<br />
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Industry<br />
Sugar beet harvesters with <strong>MTU</strong> engines<br />
The tale of the Tiger<br />
and the Mouse<br />
Michael Gruber has been an engineer with agricultural<br />
machinery manufacturers Ropa for 22 years. Although<br />
he knows the features and functions of the<br />
Euro-Mouse and Euro-Tiger inside out, it is always a<br />
challenge for him to improve the machines with each<br />
new model.<br />
Early September. The days are getting shorter<br />
and lush green crop fields being turned<br />
into bare brown expanses inside a few hours.<br />
Along the edges, sugar beets are stacked up<br />
in piles many meters long. What you don’t<br />
see from the outside is that under the heaps<br />
of sugar beet it is absolutely teeming with<br />
mice who have discovered it is warm and<br />
dry in there. Unfortunately, they can’t enjoy<br />
that cozy comfort for very long. Only a few<br />
days after harvesting, the sugar beets are<br />
gathered up and cleaned by a large loader.<br />
Somewhat paradoxically, it is called a Mouse.<br />
The beet loader was invented by Erich Fischer.<br />
When the backyard tinkerer from Eggmühl in<br />
Bavaria tried out his home-made beet loader in a<br />
field for the first time, the mice fled. Because the<br />
machine couldn’t pick up all the beets in the beginning,<br />
the farm workers shoveled the leftovers<br />
onto the loader with pitchforks. And every time<br />
a mouse was seen scurrying out of the beet pile,<br />
they shouted, “There goes a mouse”. Soon<br />
Fischer came to be known among farmers as<br />
“the man with the mouse”. He sold the patent<br />
for his beet loader to the agricultural machinery<br />
manufacturer Ropa in 1987. But the name<br />
mouse stuck. “Nobody has heard of a beet cleaner/loader<br />
but everyone knows the Ropa Mouse,”<br />
explains Michael Gruber. He is an engineer<br />
at Ropa and involved in the ongoing development<br />
of Fischer’s Mouse design.<br />
Fully synchronized<br />
Gruber knows his way around. He has worked<br />
at Ropa for 22 years. “The market dictates the<br />
requirements,” he says and also introduces the<br />
Mouse’s right-hand machine – the Tiger beet harvester.<br />
It harvests the beets and stacks them in<br />
long piles along the edge of the field. The Mouse<br />
then loads them onto trucks. Nothing is left to<br />
chance because the beet business is a very tightly<br />
orchestrated operation. From early September<br />
to the first frosts there are only a few weeks<br />
for the farmers to dig the beet out of the ground<br />
and get it to the sugar beet factories as quickly<br />
as possible. Nothing happens by accident, it is all<br />
precisely planned. The factory determines right<br />
down to the minute when the Mouse loads up the<br />
beet harvest from which farms and works a few<br />
days back from there to schedule when the Tiger<br />
needs to pull up the harvest.<br />
Talented allrounder<br />
When the day arrives, the work starts with the<br />
Tiger – a massive yellow machine almost 15 meters<br />
long and a good three meters wide. As soon<br />
as the defoliator unit is lowered, the flails start to<br />
remove the leaves from the beets. Next comes<br />
the topper unit, which slices off the leaf stalks<br />
and the very tops of the beets. In the third stage,<br />
the lifting shares – blades resembling plow<br />
shares – lift the beets out of the ground and<br />
gather them up. Various strainers on the Tiger<br />
clean the dirt off the beets at the same time as<br />
conveying them to the storage hold. Once the<br />
hold is full, the Tiger unloads the beets at the<br />
edge of the field to form a long pile. Then along<br />
comes the big Mouse and chases away all the<br />
little mice that have taken advantage of the cover<br />
provided by the beet stack. It extends its rollers<br />
to a width of ten meters as it approaches<br />
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2<br />
3<br />
4 5<br />
1 The Mouse eats its way through the beet pile. The loader can convey as much as 560 tonnes of sugar beet an hour. 2 The collector system consists of 18 rollers and extends to up to<br />
ten meters wide. 3 In the process of being loaded onto the truck the beets are also cleaned. 4 To maintain stability, the Mouse has a counterbalance arm which can be extended as<br />
required. 5 The <strong>MTU</strong> Series 926 engine meets the EU IIIB emissions standard with the aid of an SCR catalytic converter.<br />
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1<br />
2<br />
3<br />
4 5<br />
1 Talented allrounder: the Tiger first strips off the leaves and tops the beets. 2 Lifting shares lift the beets out of the ground without damaging them and deliver them onto a conveyor<br />
belt. 3 From there they are carried to the storage hold. Once the hold is full, the Tiger unloads the beet at the edge of the field to form a long pile. 4 The harvester is only in use for<br />
just about 50 days. In that time, the engine has to be dependable. 5 Ropa puts its faith in an <strong>MTU</strong> Series 502 unit.<br />
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Industry<br />
the beet pile. They literally drag in the beets and convey them<br />
upwards through the Mouse. In the process, the beets go<br />
through a second cleaning phase before passing along a conveyor<br />
and ending up in the back of a truck. A Mouse beet loader<br />
can collect and convey as much as 300,000 tonnes of<br />
sugar beet in a season.<br />
Absolute reliability<br />
The Tiger is in use for roughly 50 days a year. In that time<br />
it harvests up to 100,000 tonnes of beet. The Mouse then<br />
needs up to 120 days to load the gigantic beet stacks onto<br />
the trucks. From the beginning of September to the last<br />
of the beet in January, it is working for between 1,800 and<br />
2,000 hours. “In that time the machines must not fail on any<br />
account,” Gruber relates. Because, if the weather changes, it<br />
could destroy tonnes and tonnes of harvest. Ropa has put its<br />
faith in dependable and powerful <strong>MTU</strong> engines for many years.<br />
The Tiger harvester is powered by an eight-cylinder <strong>MTU</strong><br />
Series 502 engine capable of close to 600 bhp. A Series 926<br />
unit provides the power for the Mouse. “These engines can run<br />
for as long as 10,000 hours without major maintenance. That<br />
is the most important criterion for our clients,” Gruber elucidates.<br />
And he points out another advantage they offer: “These<br />
models are based on Daimler technology. You can buy spare<br />
parts for them anywhere in the world. That is crucial, because<br />
in the harvesting season we have to be able to<br />
supply them within a matter of hours.”<br />
The Ropa Tiger and Mouse can be found on<br />
farms all over the world. As well as in Germany,<br />
France and Poland, which are the largest beet<br />
producers in Europe, you can see the big yellow<br />
machines on fields in Russia, the Ukraine and<br />
Moldavia as well. Mouse and Tiger will be found<br />
working in America and Canada too. And since<br />
2010, Ropa has been making its first inroads into<br />
China. There are already seven machines in service<br />
there and six more are on order for Chinese<br />
farms. Wherever these harvesters and loaders<br />
do their jobs, the farmers are reminded every<br />
autumn once again why one of the machines is<br />
called a Mouse.<br />
Words: Katrin Beck<br />
Pictures: Ropa<br />
To find out more, contact:<br />
Dietmar Wetzel<br />
dietmar.wetzel@mtu-online.de<br />
Tel. +49 7541 90-7033<br />
You rarely get the chance<br />
to see this many Tigers<br />
in a field at once. The<br />
deployment times are so<br />
tightly scheduled that<br />
the multitalented machines<br />
are only on view<br />
for short periods.<br />
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Development<br />
’Journey through an Engine’ can be viewed on the <strong>MTU</strong> YouTube channel. It explains the technologies which make <strong>MTU</strong> engines clean and cost-efficient.<br />
Internal flight<br />
Sweeping through the engine at lightning speed,<br />
through the intake housing into the turbocharger<br />
compressor housing, through the charge-air<br />
cooler and into the combustion chamber. That<br />
is something that not only myriad air molecules,<br />
but now also viewers of the new <strong>MTU</strong> technology<br />
animation ‘Journey through an Engine’ can<br />
do. It shows the inner workings of a Series 4000<br />
R44 rail engine. The five-minute film explains the<br />
technologies that make <strong>MTU</strong> diesel engines clean<br />
and efficient.<br />
The virtual flight starts with a cold air molecule<br />
that passes through the air intake housing<br />
to the turbocharger. There, the air is compressed<br />
to as much as five bar. After being cooled in the<br />
charge-air cooler, it passes on to the cylinders.<br />
There, fuel is injected and finely atomized and the<br />
low-emission combustion process starts. Some<br />
of the exhaust produced is diverted off from the<br />
exhaust system, cooled and returned to the combustion<br />
chamber with the intake air. Finally, the<br />
low-emission exhaust leaves the combustion<br />
chamber and flows to the turbocharger turbine.<br />
The energy of the exhaust drives the turbocharger<br />
and the cycle repeats itself. In addition to the<br />
in-engine technology used to minimize pollutants,<br />
a diesel particulate filter traps and burns the soot<br />
particles in a controlled process.<br />
Words: Alina Welsen<br />
To find out more, contact:<br />
Alina Welsen<br />
alina.welsen@tognum.com<br />
Tel. +49 7541 90-6030<br />
More on this...<br />
…the 3D engine fly-through<br />
on the <strong>MTU</strong> YouTube channel<br />
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Talking of...<br />
…turbochargers<br />
Read more about the function and benefits of turbochargers on pages 4 to 11.<br />
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