The General Electric LM1600 is an industrial and marine

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produced by

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. The LM1600 is a derivative of the

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aircraft engine series.LM1600
, General Electric product page. Retrieved 16 February 2010.Fuel Flexibility in GE LM Engines
by Mark Lipton, GE Energy on 12 Oct 2005. Retrieved February 16th, 2010. The LM1600 delivers 20,000 shaft horsepower (shp) (14,920 kW) with a

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of 37 percent at ISO conditions.

Applications

Applications include marine propulsion, and industrial use at Dusty Lake Station and Foret LaZaida. ;Examples of marine applications *

Destriero ''Destriero'' is a long, wide, 400-ton displacement, yacht built by Fincantieri in their Muggiano yard at La Spezia in 1991. She is fitted with three GE Aviation LM1600 gas turbines totalling , providing her with a maximum speed of . ''Destrie ...

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* HSC Stena Voyager *

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HSC HSS Discovery ''HSS Discovery'' was a High-speed craft, high-speed ferry owned by Albamar Shipping Company. It is a member of the HSS 1500 class of high-speed ferries built for and designed by Stena Line from 1996 onwards. The vessel was previously named ''Ste ...

Mols-Linien (previously called ) is a Danish company that operates ferry services between Jutland (Jylland) and the island of Zealand (Sjælland). In March 2017, the routes in the Kattegat were renamed to Molslinjen, while the Bornholms services would co ...

Mai&Mie
Mols-Linien information page. Retrieved 16 February 2010.Fast ferries on natural gas
, by Nicolai Østergaard, Ing.dk. Retrieved 16 February 2010.

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