I

Advanced engine development

• New concepts for combustion (eg. Partially premixed, cool)
• Variable geometry engine

WPG1

• Multi hole, multi nozzle arrangement simulation and validation with full scale experiments

WPG2

• Very high pressure charging
• Fully variable geometry compressors & turbines  

WPG3

• Fuel flexible (multi fuel) engines

WPG1, WPG4

II

Optimization in ship energy management

• Engine performance adaptation by electronic adjustment of processes

WPG1, WPG4

• Co-agency and integration of main engine and other power producing systems

WPG4

III

Engine technologies supporting transport mission management

• Operation of electronically adjustable engines at extremes (eg. Very low load, overtorque, rapid speed changes)

WPG3, WPG4

• Adaptive engine thermal energy management supporting total energy economy               

WPG4

IV

Integration of developed emissions technologies

• Integration of sequential aftertreatment for near-zero emissions

WPG3

V

Maintenance of engine performance throughout the lifetime

• Detailed engine friction investigations

WPG5

• Application of new materials in engine

WPG5

• Advanced health monitoring applications (established in aero gas turbines) are not mature yet for marine diesel engines.

WPG4