MAN DF engines rack up 1m operating hours

Bjarne Foldager, Senior Vice President, Head of Two-Stroke Business at MAN Energy Solutions, attributed the achievement to the company’s decade-long dual-fuel strategy. “Our engines’ efficiency is the best in the market, which gives shipowners enormous flexibility, and we note that all fuel modes are employed.”

Foldager reiterated MAN ES’s determination to maintain a dual-fuel focus, citing product developments such as the Mk II ME-GI engine, which included a number of innovative features, such as a Pump Vaporizer Unit, and Pilot Booster Injection Valve, along with continuing development of an Otto-cycle variant, ME-GA.

“With references in every major, marine segment, our dual-fuel portfolio can rightly be considered as mature technology. Our dual-fuel engines continue to act as standard bearers for environmentally friendly, reliable propulsion technology with their seamless switching between fuels and elimination of methane slip. Furthermore, their use of the Diesel combustion principle ensures that they can easily adapt to run on whatever fuels the industry may prefer in the future.”