Today's large ships and power plants, with large diesel engine turbochargers suffer from what is commonly referred to as,"Turbocharger Lag," and visible "Black Smoke," causing loss or reduction of daylight arrivals, departures, maneuvering, engine starts and maintenance, not to mention possible fines for air pollution.  

Contact us about your options, they range from governor settings, to turbocharger lag reduction, starts, low speed operation, visible black smoke reduction to elimination during these start-up's and maneuvering.  This is a very common problem for engines with free spinning turbochargers, whether they be 2 or 4 cycle engines, but can be reduced without detrimental power reductions.  Visible emissions, NOx, carbon, soot, are not all the same and each has its own set of rules to address.  We work with the engine and turbocharger manufactures to help solve the problems of the smoke that people see.  Clean air is such an important issue today, that many people just call the EPA or clean air people at first sighting.  Many times it is not caused by the same problem and sometimes these problems can be resolved or reduced with settings, other times it can be a big problem.  We work hand and hand with the manufacturers, as a development team to solve these problems where and when they can be located.  Some engines, such as those with gear driven turbochargers, do not suffer from this type of turbocharger lag so they have little to no smoke even with 100% load acceptance.  Give us a chance to make some corrections to your settings or develop options to reduce the black smoke from turbocharger lag for your operation.