Rolls-Royce has sold the 50th Bergen B33:45 engine

Rolls-Royce has sold the 50th Bergen B33:45 engine. The Bergen B33:45 engine has been on the market for two years.

It is reported that the medium-speed engine is the choice of many ship owners and shipyards around the world, and has been adapted to various ship types, including fishing vessels, a series of special vessels, a submarine mining vessel, and two transshipment of liquid cargo between offshore production platforms. The ship and a tanker even include a 200-pound polar scientific research ship.

Related orders cover major markets from Norway to New Zealand, as well as the UK, Spain, Canada, China and Singapore.

The Holmøy trawler is the world's first ship equipped with a B33:45 engine and was put into operation in the Norwegian waters earlier this year.

Kjel Harloff, vice president of ship engine at Rolls-Royce, said: "The development of the B33:45 engine takes into account the needs of the user, combining the most advanced modern design with more than 70 years of engine design experience. The engine has been on the market for two years. And won wide acclaim."

Compared with the previous engine, the engine's power is increased by 20%, and the same power output can be achieved with fewer cylinder configurations, thus reducing the life cycle cost of the engine and saving installation space.

The engine is equipped with a selective catalytic reduction system to meet the IMO NOx Tier III international environmental requirements. The fuel consumption under the 85% load condition is 175g/kWh, and the fuel consumption under full load conditions is 177g/kWh, and the economic performance under extremely low load conditions is outstanding.

The whole machine adopts modular design, which is easy to maintain in the later stage. The design and maintenance period under average load is 25,000 hours.

"We have been in close contact with our customers during the long-term development process," said Jeff Elliott, executive director of Rolls Engines at Rolls-Royce. "This is one of the key factors in our continued success."

The Rolls-Royce Bergen Engine Company is the only reciprocating engine manufacturing plant in Norway and the largest industrial body in the Bergen region.

This year's August 25 officially marks the 70th anniversary of the company's engine production. In the spring of 1946, the company built the first diesel engine in Solheimsviken. To date, the Bergen plant has delivered more than 7,000 engines, of which more than 4,000 are still in operation.

The plant site in Hordvikneset is Rolls-Royce's advanced manufacturing center for medium-speed engines, with a large-scale research and development base, next to the engine production workshop and test center. The plant even built its own maritime terminal and was able to overhaul the engine on board the ship.

Bergen Engine has more than 1,000 employees worldwide, more than 800 of whom are located in Hordvikneset. The plant produces both marine and land-based generators. Since the introduction of the gas engine in 1991, the cumulative length of the Rolls-Royce pure LNG engine has exceeded 25 million hours.

Bergen Engine Company is part of the Rolls-Royce Power System.