Hercules Beta

Hercules Beta is the second leg of a joint research effort between MAN- Diesel and Wartsila. The project's aim is to develop future generations of optimally efficient and clean marine diesel engines; i.e. reduce marine diesel engine fuel consumption by 10% and improve the efficiency of the marine diesel propulsion system to more than 60%, thereby significantly reducing CO2 emissions. A further aim of the project is to target ultra-low exhaust emissions by eliminating 70% of NOx and 50% of particulates from marine engines by 2020.