CONSEIL INTERNATIONAL
DES MACHINES A COMBUSTION
PAPER NO.: 43
Performance and Combustion Analysis of
High-speed Diesel Engine in Fast Ferry under
Normal Service Condition
Motohiro Takai, National Maritime Research Institute, Japan
mtakai@nmri.go.jp
Shigeji Tsukahara, National Maritime Research Institute, Japan
Abstract: The high-speed, high-power and
lightweight marine diesel engine is the predominant
prime mover used for high-speed ferries. Short pas-
sage and fast turn round, which is the typical operation
of high-speed ferries, requires frequent starting, rapid
acceleration and hot shutdown of the main engine. It is
considered that such a operation in high-speed ferries
is very sever conditions for high-speed diesel engines
and generates frequently alternating thermal or me-
chanical loads on engine components, which cause
various damages, for example, cracks of the mate-
rial around the combustion chamber, abnormal wear
of the main bearing of the crankshaft, etc.
Therefore, the full-scale measurements were car-
ried out to collect data on the performace and the
load characteristics of the high-speed diesel engine in
service. The vessel which measurements were per-
formed on is 40m length catamarans high-speed pas-
senger ferry and is powered by four Niigata high-speed
diesel engines 16V16FX, rated at 2023kW/1950rpm,
driving two Niigata J850R waterjets via gearboxes.
Measurements were carried out under the normal
ship’s service and all data were recorded continuously
from the start of engine to departure, cruising, enter-
ing harbor, and the stop of engine .The measurement
data are driving shaft torque of waterjet, shaft speed,
engine speed, in-cylinder pressure, exhaust gas tem-
perature, ship motions (rolling and pitching), etc.
In order to analyze the engine performance and to
calculate the heat release rate using in-cylinder pres-
sure, it is necessary to record the data with high sam-
pling rate. The onboard data acquisition system was
developed, which consist of the high-speed sampling
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CIMAC Congress 2004, Kyoto
INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL
ON COMBUSTION ENGINES
device and a large amount of data storage device with
fast recording speed and which is controlled by the
notebook-sized personal computer.
In this paper, the following contents are described.
1. Time history and fluctuation of engine speed
and the shaft output of the waterjet from the starting
engine until entering port is shown, and the power ab-
sorption to shaft speed characteristic of a water jet
during maneuvering in harbor and at cruising condi-
tion is described.
2. The variations of various parameters such as
the engine speed, the waterjet shaft output, the max-
imum cylinder pressure, the ship motions (rolling and
pitching) are compared in rough sea state condition
and in moderate sea state condition. The power spec-
tral analyses of shaft output and ship motions are
adopted in various sea state condition.
3. Using in-cylinder pressure data in various en-
gine operations, such as motoring, starting, idling, ac-
celerating, cursing and decelerating, analyses of the
start of combustion and .the rate of pressure rise due
to combustion are performed. The induced gas vibra-
tion in the volume of connecting passage of pressure
transducer is also analyzed.
4. As it is difficult to record an engine cycle refer-
ence signal in service condition, the method, which is
able to obtain the angle of TDC (piston top dead cen-
ter) accurately from the cylinder pressure curve anal-
ysis, is presented. According to the calculation results
of the heat release rate and the average gas tem-
perature in various engine operations, the combustion
analysis of the high-speed diesel engine is discussed.
 

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