MHI makes moves to meet NOx emission regulations - Baird Maritime

Posted - October 21, 2010 - Baird Maritime

Japan: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) will install testing equipment for two-stroke, low-speed marine diesel engines at the company's Kobe Shipyard and Machinery Works in Hyogo, Japan.
Installation is slated for completion in the spring of 2012. The testing system will be used for verification of various elemental technologies to satisfy the Tier III nitrogen oxide (NOx) emission standards of the International Maritime Organization (IMO).
Those standards require operators of marine diesel engines installed on ships constructed on or after January 1, 2016 and operating in emissions-controlled areas to reduce NOx emissions by about 80 percent from the current Tier I regulated level.
The 4UE-X3 testing system will be manufactured based on MHI's Mitsubishi-UE Diesel Engine UEC60LSE-Eco model, an electronically controlled 600 millimeter cylinder-bore four-cylinder engine.

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