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will result in much higher risk of catastrophic failures. Additionally,<br />
end users want to save time on maintenance, and to reduce<br />
skill requirements of their maintenance teams; all resulting in<br />
higher risk. Thus, to reduce maintenance constraints and mitigate<br />
associated risks, engine builders are looking for methods to monitor<br />
bearing conditions. Not only high-speed and medium-speed<br />
engine builders are concerned, but also low-speed engine builders<br />
(although low speed engines do, historically, show high reliability<br />
of their bearings). To satisfy this increasing demand, a new sensor,<br />
called TB3, has been designed for monitoring the temperatures<br />
of moving parts inside the engine, such as the connecting rod big<br />
end bearings. Design of the TB3 sensor boasts short response time,<br />
easy installation, simple maintenance and low cost in order to<br />
be standardised on series engines above 200mm bore. The TB3<br />
sensor is based on the well-known SAW (surface acoustic waves)<br />
technology, which has been specifically engineered and patented<br />
for serving the purpose of measuring the temperature of moving<br />
parts inside engines. Compared with other commercially available<br />
protection devices, the TB3 sensor is a technological breakthrough<br />
allowing wireless signal transmission up to 1m distance inside the<br />
engine. The sensor system is made of several dynamic sensors fitted<br />
on the moving parts, and only one large antenna fixed to the<br />
crankcase wall inside each cylinder compartment. The large antennas<br />
are directly communicating with the ECU by simple connection<br />
to the CAN bus line existing on the engine, thus reducing the<br />
cost of wiring system outside the crankcase. The paper will review<br />
today’s bearing challenges and protection devices. After a quick<br />
look at wireless sensors, it will describe TB3 sensor hardware and<br />
software technologies, and expected advantages on industrial engines,<br />
in regards to installation design, service, and safety.<br />
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Future HFO/GI exhaust valve spindle<br />
Uffe D. Bihlet, MAn Diesel & Turbo SE, Denmark<br />
Harro A. Hoeg, MAn Diesel & Turbo SE, Denmark<br />
State of the art for exhaust valve spindles for large two-stroke<br />
heavy fuel diesel engines is currently either a fully forged Nimonic<br />
80A version or a cost-effective version based on an austenitic<br />
valve steel weld coated by a specially hardened Inconel<br />
718 seat hardfacing and Inconel 625 disc coating. These three<br />
alloys, originally developed more than 50 years ago for the gas<br />
turbine and process industry, show comparable corrosion resistance<br />
at usual heat load. The general trend in engine design<br />
is steadily pushing combustion chamber component temperatures<br />
towards higher levels and the hot corrosion resistance of<br />
these alloys is currently being tested to the limit. Furthermore,<br />
operation on LNG will bring new challenges. Indeed, it would<br />
appear that there is much room for improvement as no focused<br />
alloy development has been performed aimed at the special<br />
conditions found on the thermally and mechanically stressed<br />
parts of the exhaust valve spindle. In the present work, new<br />
coating alloys, meeting the requirements for the future valve<br />
spindle, have been developed by combining literature study,<br />
service experience, experimental data and numerical thermodynamic<br />
calculations. This paper describes the considerations<br />
and results of this alloy development as well as the details of a<br />
required new production technique for manufacturing a compound<br />
product by the hot isostatic pressing (HIP) technology,<br />
which has been developed with advanced finite element method<br />
(FEM) modelling.<br />
Viscosity controlling<br />
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