The 10,000th HiMSEN (hi-touch marine and stationary engine) has been produced by Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI).
The engine was installed on a 14,400TEU containership ordered from Costamare, Greece.
The HiMSEN are medium speed four-stroke engines that HHI independently developed in 2001 after 10 years of research and development. The engines can be used for both ship propulsion and power generation for onshore power plants.
HHI has exported the four-stroke engines to 550 clients from 43 countries over the past 15 years finally creating a total of 10,000.
Starting with HiMSEN models that ran on diesel, now, HHI has models that can run on natural gas alone or both diesel and natural gas.
In September last year, HHI introduced the next generation CLEAN (customer, reliability, environment, acceptable technology, no defect) HiMSEN engine. The CLEAN HiMSEN engine realized 20 per cent power output increase and two per cent fuel efficiency improvement compared to the existing same class four-stroke engines, while making its physical size and weight 10 per cent smaller and lighter respectively with the utilization of high pressure combustion technology.
For further information contact: Hyundai Heavy Industries, Korea
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