The Benefits
Recent major contracts awarded to the MAN Diesel & Turbo Power Plant business unit underline the increasing importance of large diesel and gas engines in covering the world’s growing demand for electrical power generation.
Fuel Efficiency
Large diesel engines are the most fuel efficient combustion engines available - with mechanical efficiencies between 46 and 52%, they offer excellent fuel economy as a firm basis for low emissions. State-of-the-art gas engines using lean burn technology and micro-pilot dual-fuel technology in combination with natural gas fuel achieve some of the lowest emissions levels in the combustion engine sector.
Fast Track Power
The construction time of power plants based on diesel and gas engines can be extremely rapid, allowing the operator to start harvesting revenues at the earliest opportunity. Experience shows that, if needed, the first generator set of a multi engine project can be feeding power to the local grid in a matter of months.
Fuel Independence
By using liquid fuel stored in a tank farm on site, diesel power plants are independent of fixed infrastructures like gas pipelines and not so affected by fuel supply fluctuations. Looking at economic aspects, the heavy fuel oil (HFO) commonly used in diesel engine power plants is traditionally cheaper than distillate diesel fuels.
Part of the Solution
With their high efficiencies and fuel flexibility, especially in co-generation and combined cycle applications, our engines are already positioned to be part of the solution in the fight to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the power sector. As one of the world’s leading providers of turbomachinery and large-bore diesel engines we are able to offer turnkey diesel combined cycle power plants to the customers.
Heat Recovery
Diesel Combined Cycle
Fuel Flexibility