EVENDALE, OH - GE Marine Engines reported it will supply Motoren- und Turbinen-Union (MTU), Friedrichshafen, Germany, with three LM2500 aeroderivative gas turbines to power three German Navy Sachsen-class F124 frigates. This marks the first time the LM2500 will be applied in a combined diesel and gas turbine (CODAG) configuration for naval service.
The LM2500 gas turbines will be used with MTU diesel engines for total propulsion system output per ship of 51,600 horsepower.
To date, the German Navy has 26 GE LM2500 gas turbines in operation: Seventeen units are used for the F122 Bremen-class frigates and nine units are used for the F123 Brandenburg-class frigates. In addition to the German Navy, the LM2500 is used by 24 other international navies including the U.S. Navy. The worldwide LM2500 naval fleet includes nearly 1,000 engines on more than 350 ships.
The LM2500 gas turbines will be manufactured by GE Marine Engines at its Evendale, OH facility. The gas turbines will be installed into marine propulsion packages by MTU at its Friedrichshafen facility. The first F124 frigate will be built by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, Germany. Deliveries by the shipyards of the frigates to the German Navy are slated for December 2002, December 2004 and December 2005, respectively.
MTU, headquartered in Friedrichshafen, Germany, is a company of the DaimlerChrysler Group and a leading supplier of plants for electric power generation and drive systems for land, water and railroad applications. MTU packages GE LM gas turbines for marine and power generation applications. GE Marine Engines is part of GE Aircraft Engines and is headquartered in Evendale, OH. GE Marine Engines is the world's largest designer, developer and manufacturer of aeroderivative gas turbines for a variety of commercial and military marine propulsion applications.