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6.07 Central Cooling Water System
Letters refer to List of flanges
Fig. 6.07.01: Central cooling system
The central cooling water system is characterised
by having only one heat exchanger cooled by sea-
water, and by the other coolers, including the jacket
water cooler, being cooled by the freshwater low
temperature (FW-LT) system.
In order to prevent too high a scavenge air tempera-
ture, the cooling water design temperature in the
FW-LT system is normally 36 C, corresponding to a
maximum seawater temperature of 32 C.
Our recommendation of keeping the cooling water
inlet temperature to the main engine scavenge air
cooler as low as possible also applies to the central
cooling system. This means that the temperature
control valve in the FW-LT circuit is to be set to mini-
mum 10 C, whereby the temperature follows the
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outboard seawater temperature when this exceeds
10 C.
For further information about common cooling wa-
ter system for main engines and MAN B&W Holeby
auxiliary engines please refer to our publication:
P.281 Uni-concept Auxiliary Systems for Two-
stroke Main Engine and Four-stroke Auxili-
ary Engines.
For external pipe connections, we prescribe the fol-
lowing maximum water velocities:
Jacket water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.0 m/s
Central cooling water (FW-LT) . . . . . . . . . . 3.0 m/s
Seawater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.0 m/s
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Components for seawater system Central cooling water pumps,

low temperature (4 45 651)

Seawater cooling pumps (4 45 601) The pumps are to be of the centrifugal type.

The pumps are to be of the centrifugal type.
Seawater flow . . . . . . . . . . see List of capacities
Pump head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.5 bar
Test pressure . . . . . . . . . . according to class rules
Working temperature,
normal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-32 C
Working temperature . . . . . . . . . . maximum 50 C
Freshwater flow. . . . . . . . . see List of capacities
Pump head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.5 bar
Delivery pressure . . . . . . . . depends on location of
expansion tank
Test pressure . . . . . . . . . . according to class rules
Working temperature,
normal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . approximately 80 C
maximum 90 C

The capacity is to be within a tolerance of 0% +10%.
The differential pressure of the pumps is to be deter-
mined on the basis of the total actual pressure drop
across the cooling water system.
Central cooler (4 45 670)
The flow capacity is to be within a tolerance of 0%
+10%.
The list of capacities covers the main engine
only.The differential pressure provided by the
pumps is to be determined on the basis of the total
actual pressure drop across the cooling water sys-
tem.

The cooler is to be of the shell and tube or plate heat

exchanger type, made of seawater resistant mate- Central cooling water thermostatic valve
rial. (4 45 660)

Heat dissipation . . . . . . . . . see List of capacities
Central cooling water flow . see List of capacities
Central cooling water temperature,
outlet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 C
Pressure drop on central cooling
side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . maximum 0.2 bar
Seawater flow . . . . . . . . . . see List of capacities
Seawater temperature,
inlet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 C
Pressure drop on SW side . . . . . maximum 0.2 bar
The pressure drop may be larger, depending on the
actual cooler design.
The low temperature cooling system is to be equip-
ped with a three-way valve, mounted as a mixing
valve, which by-passes all or part of the fresh water
around the central cooler.
The sensor is to be located at the outlet pipe from
the thermostatic valve and is set so as to keep a
temperature level of minimum 10 C.
Lubricating oil cooler (4 40 605)
See Lubricating oil system.

The heat dissipation and the SW flow figures are

based on MCR output at tropical conditions, i.e. a
SW temperature of 32 C and an ambient air tem-
perature of 45 C.

Overload running at tropical conditions will slightly

increase the temperature level in the cooling sys-
tem, and will also slightly influence the engine per-
formance.

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Jacket water cooler (4 46 620)

The cooler is to be of the shell and tube or plate heat

exchanger type.

Heat dissipation . . . . . . . . . see List of capacities

Jacket water flow . . . . . . . . see List of capacities
Jacket water temperature,
inlet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 C
Pressure drop on jacket water side . . max. 0.2 bar
FW-LT flow. . . . . . . . . . . . . see List of capacities
FW-LT temperature, inlet . . . . . . . . . approx. 42 C
Pressure drop on FW-LT side. . . . . . . max. 0.2 bar

The heat dissipation and the FW-LT flow figures are

based on an MCR output at tropical conditions, i.e.
a maximum SW temperature of 32 C and an ambi-
ent air temperature of 45 C.

Scavenge air cooler (4 54 150)

The scavenge air cooler is an integrated part of the

main engine.

Heat dissipation . . . . . . . . . see List of capacities

FW-LT water flow. . . . . . . . see List of capacities
FW-LT water temperature, inlet . . . . . . . . . . . 36 C
Pressure drop on FW-LT
water side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . approx. 0.5 bar

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