HHI Builds 10,000th HiMSEN 4-Stroke Marine Engine
Shipbuilder and a marine engine manufacturer Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) announced it has produced its 10,000th HiMSEN (Hi-Touch Marine and Stationary Engine) engine installed on a 14,400 TEU containership ordered from Costamare, Greece.
The HiMSEN engines are medium speed four-stroke engines that HHI independently developed in 2001 with 10 years of research and development, and can be used for both ship propulsion and power generation for onshore power plants. According to the builder, the engine features high-output and high-efficiency, and its versatile design makes it an ideal option as a main part of its proprietary mobile power plant, Packaged Power Stations (PPS) and Diesel Power Plant (DPP) for power generation at places ranging from disaster-stricken islands and remote areas where the construction of conventional power plants are not feasible.
With a market share of 22 percent, HHI has exported the four-stroke engines to 550 clients from 43 countries over the past 15 years. Starting from introducing HiMSEN engine models that can run on diesel, now, HHI has HiMSEN engine lineup that can run on natural gas and the one that can both run on diesel and natural gas.
Moreover, 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 percent power output increase and 2 percent fuel efficiency improvement compared to the existing same class four-stroke engines, while making its physical size and weight 10 percent smaller and lighter respectively with the utilization of high pressure combustion technology.