CONSEIL INTERNATIONAL
DES MACHINES A COMBUSTION
PAPER NO.: 224
The UEC engine program and its latest
development
Hironori Sakabe, MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., Japan
hironori sakabe@mhi.co.jp
Katsuhiko Sakaguchi, MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., Japan
Abstract: The UEC engine was born in 1955.
Since then, many customers all over the world have
remained faithful to the UEC engine, with its low fuel
consumption and high reliability, for half a century. At
present, the UEC is one of the few engines that con-
tinue to use low speed marine propulsion. In addition,
the most important aspect is that the UEC is the only
engine with which the licensor itself performs develop-
ment, manufacture and after-sale service, and feeds
back the results to design.
The UEC-LSII is the first full lineup series with a
bore of 33 to 85 cm, and more than 300 sets have
been in satisfactory service.
A new series, the UEC-LSE, was released in
1998 based on service results fed back on the UEC-
LSII, and can be applied to recent larger and/or
higher speed ships. Development of the UEC52LSE,
UEC60LSE and UEC68LSE has been completed thus
far. Eleven sets of the UEC52LSE have been ordered
for small class container ships and RoRo ships, and
the first UEC52LSE has been in service since Sep.
2001. Orders for the UEC68LSE reached 10 sets for
Capesize BCs, Suezemax tankers and Feeder con-
tainer ships, and the first UEC68LSE with six cylin-
c
CIMAC Congress 2004, Kyoto
INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL
ON COMBUSTION ENGINES
ders commenced service in May 2003. We have now
started development of a 50-cm bore engine, which is
a joint work with Wartsila Switzerland aiming predom-
inantly at the Handymax BC and Panamax BC.
To comply environmentally new technologies are
continuously developed. One is the SIP system, devel-
oped together with a Danish lubricator manufacturer.
The SIP system injects a cylinder LO with high pres-
sure to spray onto the cylinder liner surface. Since it
makes a thin uniform cylinder LO film on the wide area
of the cylinder liner surface, cylinder LO consump-
tion is reduced far below that of conventional systems.
This new cylinder lubricating system has been already
applied and ordered for more than 100 sets of engines.
In addition, the development of an electrically con-
trolled engine, named the UEC Eco-Engine, is ready
to be applied to a commercial engine. Compared to a
conventional engine driven by a camshaft, the UEC
Eco-Engine can reduce fuel oil consumption, NOx
emission and smoke, and engine performance is im-
proved, especially with low loads.
This paper sets forth the latest UEC engine pro-
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