What is a generator engine？

Electricity is indispensable in our daily life. Therefore, the generator is particularly important. Many units need to use generator engines, so we need to carefully understand the relevant information and characteristics before purchasing. Only in this way can the engines be better applied to the actual scenes.

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What is a generator engine？

What are the characteristics of a generator engine?

What are the applications of generator engines?

What is a generator engine？

Generator engine is a kind of small power generation equipment, which uses diesel as fuel and diesel engine as prime mover to drive the generator to generate electricity. The whole set is generally composed of diesel engine, generator, control box, fuel tank, storage battery for starting and control, protection device, emergency cabinet, etc.

What are the characteristics of a generator engine?

1. There are many levels of single machine capacity. International units range from several kilowatts to tens of thousands of kilowatts, and domestic units are the largest.

2. The supporting equipment is compact in structure and flexible in installation location (only 1 / 10 of 34 ~ 82L/ kW. H water cooled turbine).

3. High thermal efficiency and low fuel consumption (thermal efficiency 30 ~ 46%)       

4. It can start up quickly and reach full power in only one second. It has short shutdown process with full load due (normal 5-30 min) in one minute, and can start and stop frequently.

5. It is easy to maintain and operate, less people, and easy to maintain during turning.

What are the applications of generator engines?

1. Self provided power supply

Some power users do not have network power supply, such as islands far away from the mainland, remote pastoral areas, rural areas, military barracks in desert plateau, etc. They need to configure their own power supply. In the case of low power generation, generator diesel set often becomes the first choice of self-contained power supply.

2. Standby power supply

In order to prevent accidents, such as circuit failure or temporary power failure, the power users need to configure their own power supply for emergency power generation.

3. Alternative power supply

The role of alternative power supply is to make up for the lack of network power supply. There may be two situations: one is that the price of grid power is too high, and diesel generator set is selected as the alternative power supply from the perspective of cost saving; the other is that the use of grid power is limited in the case of insufficient supply of grid power.

4. Mobile power

Because of its light, flexible and easy operation, generator diesel set has become the first choice of mobile power supply. Mobile power is generally designed in the form of power vehicles, including self powered vehicles and trailer powered vehicles.

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