Caterpillar 16CM32C, Four-Stroke Marine Diesel Engine, 2022, 16-Cylinder, 7680 BKW, 720 RPM

Description

  1. Overview
    1. Diesel-electric propulsion
    2. 16 cylinders in vee-form
    3. Counter-clockwise rotation
    4. Compressed-air starting
    5. Suitable for operation with MDO
    6. Maximum viscosity: 14 cSt/40 °C
  2. Engine Block And Construction
    1. 1-piece dry engine block made of nodular cast iron, incorporating the crankshaft bearings, camshaft, charge air receiver, vibration damper housing and gear drive housing
    2. Under slung crankshaft with corrosion main and big end bearing shells
    3. Natural hardened liners, centrifugally casted, with calibration insert
    4. Composite type pistons with steel crown and nodular cast iron skirt
    5. Piston ring set consisting of 2 chromium plated compression rings, first ring with chromium ceramic plated running surfaces and 1 chromium plated oil scraper ring; all ring grooves are located in the steel crown; the first ring groove is chromium plated; the other ring grooves are hardened
    6. 3-piece connecting rod with the possibility to dismount the piston without opening the big end bearing
    7. Cylinder head made of nodular cast iron with 2 inlet and 2 exhaust valves with valve rotators; directly cooled exhaust valve seats
    8. Camshaft made of sections per cylinder allowing a removal of the pieces sideways
    9. Turbocharger supplied with inboard plain bearings lubricated by engine lubrication oil
    10. 2-stage fresh water-cooling system with 2-stage charge air cooler
  3. Technical Data
    1. Cylinder configuration: “V”
    2. Number of cylinders: 16
    3. Bore: 320 mm
    4. Stroke: 420 mm
    5. Stroke / bore ratio: 1.3
    6. Swept volume: 33.8 l/cyl
    7. Output / cyl.: 480 kW
    8. Bmep: 23.7 bar
    9. Revolutions: 720 rpm
    10. Mean piston speed: 10.1 m/s
    11. Turbocharging: single pipe
    12. Direction of rotation: counter clockwise
  4. Rated Output And Reference Conditions
    1. Rated output: 7680 bkW at 720 rpm
    2. Reference conditions to ISO 3046/1
    3. 45 °C (318 K) air temperature
    4. 38 °C (311 K) charge-air cooling water temperature
    5. 60% humidity
    6. 1 bar (100 kPa) air pressure
    7. The engine will be run at 110% continuous rating on the test bed; the fuel rack position will then be limited to 110%
    8. The engine features an intermittent overload capacity to ISO 3046/1