Caterpillar generator provides power for marine mining ships       

The ocean is a cornucopia of ocean mining for any country is very attractive. In addition to detecting offshore oil and gas resources, marine physical exploration can also assess the instability and disaster of the seabed.

Recently, Caterpillar research equipment agents - Xinchang Machine Engineering Co. Ltd. and China Shipbuilding Industry Corp in 711 together, successfully won the bid for the comprehensive geophysical prospecting equipment project of the marine geological guarantee project of Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey Bureau survey ship B ship project.

The integrated geophysical survey ship of Guangzhou marine geological survey will be equipped with advanced two-dimensional seismic measurement function. The ship is mainly used for regional geological survey in marine geological support projects, and oil and gas resources survey in key areas. And the advanced engine made by Caterpillar has become the driving heart of the device.

There is nothing more important than an engine that provides a strong power for a long, high-precision exploration task. And the heart of the offshore exploration ship to be promoted in the future is made up of 4 Cat (Carter) C280-8 main generator diesel engines and 1 Cat C32 diesel generators.

Cat C280 series of medium speed diesel engine from the Cat 3600 Series platform, from 1985 the first Cat 3600 engine assembly line has been 30 years of history, a total of more than 1300 units worldwide for marine applications, has been widely accepted and used in Europe and America, especially in ship electric propulsion as the main generator. Cat C280 is one of the engines on the market size of the same power medium machine, minimum weight, convenient cabin layout; and the machine with wet sump, high temperature and low temperature water pump and water pump, sea water pump and other accessories, can help reduce the external pipeline; has the range of 150RPM wide constant amplitude (peak torque output advance host), power reserve and acceleration performance.

This is the 711 project partners of marine power plant and ancillary products integrated services leading, its core technology and products in the leading position in the domestic and international influence, has developed into a set of research and development, production, engineering contracting services, as one of the enterprise group, service in machinery, petrochemical, energy, transportation and other more than 20 industries and fields, involving more than 30 countries and regions in the world. Caterpillar and 711 have a solid foundation for cooperation, and both sides have cooperated to provide power and system solutions for a number of domestic scientific research ships.

The national marine geological guarantee engineering supporting equipment project is the largest central budget investment construction project since the establishment of the Geological Survey Bureau of China. The total investment is about 1 billion 952 million yuan. The Caterpillar bid of the comprehensive geophysical survey ship B ship is the same batch of new 3 ship survey ship 1 largest and most powerful ship.