The best in standy power – mirlees blackstone k major
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The Best in Standy
Power – Mirlees
Blackstone K Major
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• The most renowned range of diesel as well as heavy fuel engines in
the world is the Mirrlees Blackstone K Major. It is famous
throughout because of the quality design and reliability even in the
most challenging environments.
• Currently there are four different diesel ranges that are made at
Mirrlees, apparently the most known or popular ones are the K
Major, E MK II, MB 430 and MB 275.
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• K MAJOR – This engine was introduced in the year 1966 and is not only
very reliable and efficient but also economical. It has been mainly used
in for marine propulsion, auxiliary duties and base load power
generation activities. The K major consists of 4 power outputs. These
outputs are between 1500 and 13140 horsepower. The K major is
known to be the no. 1 standby power generating set used in UK’s
nuclear power stations and since it was introduced the number of
engines that have been built to cross 1000 numbers and give over 5
million horsepower as combined output. KV16 is known to be the
longest running one and has a running time of 135000 hours. It is used
at Marcopper Mining Corporation.
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• The research and development of the Mirrlees Blackstone Esl is done at
the laboratory that was established way back in the year 1966. This
laboratory has facilities for recording the normal as well as special
parameters of the engines. These parameters include stresses,
temperatures, pressures and temperatures. An Engine test area is
provided also. There is an individual room which is insulated with
installed instrument consoles for the test beds. Even for airflow, fuel
injection equipments, stress analysis etc there is a static test area. The
services also include chemistry, metallurgy as well as electronics
laboratory. There is a machine shop and store also which does the testing
of rig components and modifies the special engines.