Using our service to upgrade the pistons with thermal ceramic crowns and gapless piston rings similar to that used in Nascar or F1 racing engines leads to high-speed marine diesel engines with as high as 20% extra range from the same fuel load.
This dramatic improvement is very useful for work boats, patrol boats or thin-margin businesses like fishing boats; it is a mechanical technology improvement that drops emissions and exhaust temperatures and boosts fuel efficiency.
Opti lowers the exhaust temperature of a marine diesel engine by around 90 degrees centigrade meaning that the thermal signature is reduced. Due to better combustion in the engine, the exhaust opacity and smoke are greatly cut meaning the visual signature of soot and smoke is less.
Cutting the blowby into the crankcase of Volvo Penta, CAT, or MTU marine diesel engines means that the same engine delivers substantially more power and torque. The ‘tipping point’ of the turbochargers comes lower as the engine pulls in more inter-cooled air into the engine.
A key advantage of an Opti upgrade is that it is not a sophisticated electronic technology, but is a mechanical upgrade at the heart of the marine engine that works day in and day out.
Fishing vessels, warships, work boats, or RNLI lifeboats can all benefit from this, you can see the upgraded features on a 6-cylinder Paccar MX-11 diesel truck engine below:
Do the diesel smoke and emissions from vessels matter from an environmental perspective? Yes, it does and greatly boosted range and vastly less NOx and HC emissions without problematic and fault-prone after treatment systems.
Call us on telephone: 01324 309100 or email us at: oil@lubiq.uk