Marine Propulsion & Auxiliary Machinery

Helios enters new performance testing phase

Taken from: Marine Propulsion & Auxiliary Machinery August/September 2012


Helios is a joint industry research project co-ordinated by MAN Diesel & Turbo, and held under the umbrella of the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme for research and technical development/transportation. The main objective of the project is to develop a generation of electronically controlled two-stroke low speed marine diesel engines that operate on high-pressure compressed natural gas or liquefied natural gas. The project started in the Autumn 2010, has a €5.1 mi....

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