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    The slide valve fuel injector was originally introduced by MAN B&W in 2002 to improve fuel efficiency and reduce wasted fuel by eliminating a small channel in earlier nozzle designs. It reduced this "sac volume" which would retain oil after injection, dripping unburned fuel into the combustion chamber. While meant to improve efficiency, the slide valve also reduced NOx emissions without intending to. Later, through computational modeling of spray patterns, MAN B&W developed a retrofit kit using the slide valve that allowed older engines to meet Tier I emissions standards by reducing peak combustion temperatures. Ship operators supported adopting slide valves for the fuel and engine maintenance benefits, with lower NOx emissions as an added advantage.

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    The slide valve fuel injector was originally introduced by MAN B&W in 2002 to improve fuel efficiency and reduce wasted fuel by eliminating a small channel in earlier nozzle designs. It reduced this "sac volume" which would retain oil after injection, dripping unburned fuel into the combustion chamber. While meant to improve efficiency, the slide valve also reduced NOx emissions without intending to. Later, through computational modeling of spray patterns, MAN B&W developed a retrofit kit using the slide valve that allowed older engines to meet Tier I emissions standards by reducing peak combustion temperatures. Ship operators supported adopting slide valves for the fuel and engine maintenance benefits, with lower NOx emissions as an added advantage.

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    The slide valve fuel injector was originally introduced by MAN B&W in 2002 to improve fuel efficiency and reduce wasted fuel by eliminating a small channel in earlier nozzle designs. It reduced this "sac volume" which would retain oil after injection, dripping unburned fuel into the combustion chamber. While meant to improve efficiency, the slide valve also reduced NOx emissions without intending to. Later, through computational modeling of spray patterns, MAN B&W developed a retrofit kit using the slide valve that allowed older engines to meet Tier I emissions standards by reducing peak combustion temperatures. Ship operators supported adopting slide valves for the fuel and engine maintenance benefits, with lower NOx emissions as an added advantage.

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    Royal Belgian Institute of Marine Engineers

    From the front lines

    Slide Valves: Small Things That Mean a Lot


    As with the earlier design, slide valves could be
    adjusted to favor fuel efciency or NOx reduction. In the six years since they were released,
    the latter attribute has become the object of
    much investigation.

    Cross sections of
    fuel-valve nozzle
    tips.

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    Introduced by MAN B&W in 2002 for its MC


    series slow-speed marine diesel engines, the
    slide valve improved on earlier nozzle designs
    by eliminating a minute channel called the
    sac volume that ran from the injection valve
    seat to the fuel inlet
    hole in the combustion
    chamber. The channel
    retained a small amount
    of oil after injection,
    which would drip into
    the chamber and burn
    incompletely. With big
    ships consuming more
    than 200 tons of fuel
    oil per day, those tiny
    drops added up to quite
    a lot of wasted fuel. In
    the slide valve arrangement, the valve sits
    on the injection holes,
    reducing sac volume to
    almost zero and improving fuel efciency. It
    also cuts the amount
    of unburned hydrocarbons, and particulate
    emissions.

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    KONINKLIJK GALLOIS GENOOTSCHAP

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    he fuel injector slide valve has been


    hailed by industry and regulators as
    a nice bit of green engineering for
    the advances it brought in NOx reduction.
    It is a key component in the retrot kit
    that makes 20-year-old engines t for IMO
    Tier I emissions compliance. Interestingly,
    the slide valve was not invented to reduce
    NOx, but to improve engine efciency and
    cylinder condition.

    Surveyor  Fall 2008

    Using computational uid dynamics, we


    modeled the effect of changing the number
    of holes, the spray angels and spray patterns,
    says Kjeld Aabo, Director of Promotion and
    Customer Support for MAN B&W. This
    reduces the concentration of fuel oil at the
    injection point, resulting in smaller peak
    temperatures in the combustion chamber.
    Changing combustion conditions changes
    NOx emissions, he explains. The benet
    is not related to the slide valve as such, but
    to the spray pattern. We then were able to
    develop a kit that could bring our older inservice engines up to Tier I standards.
    Better fuel efciency, more complete
    combustion, less smoke and soot and fewer
    engine deposits for these reasons we immediately deployed slide valves in all engines,
    where it was possible to do so, says LarsRobert Pedersen, Director of Regulatory Affairs
    for AP Moller-Maersk. From our perspective, all shipowners should apply slide valves
    immediately, where possible, because it makes
    perfectly good operational sense. The NOx
    benet is a free extra.

    Fuel injector shown with slide valves.

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