MINSK, 7 June (BelTA) – An engine made by the Belarusian company MMZ has been successfully tested as part of the Swiss vacuum road sweeper BKM-2020. The small-capacity four-cylinder MMZ-4DTI has successfully replaced an Italian one, representatives of the company told BelTA.
The Belarusian engine was made to a custom order of the manufacturer of municipal vehicles with consequent sales in Russia. MMZ specialists have been working on it since March. “It was a complicated task. The Swiss vacuum sweeper uses only hydraulics: a hydraulic drive for the engines, hydraulic lifting of the bunker, brushes, and a lot of mounted equipment. The vehicle has no drive shafts or gearboxes. The engine's design had to be reworked to adapt it to the vehicle. Many parts were made anew to match special technical parameters. Cooling, power supply, and coupling systems were modified. The locations of the electric equipment were changed. The vehicle's electronic control module was coupled with the mechanical fuel pump of the engine. As a result of joint brainstorm original solutions to unconventional tasks that go beyond standard equations and rules of hydraulics were found,” the MMZ press service said.
The engine went through testbed trials without a hitch. “The engine is adapted to the vehicle perfectly. All the systems operate without a fault. It can be described as a genuine success of MMZ designers, who demonstrated an example of combination of the perfect knowledge of technical matters and the creative approach. The achievement is particularly tangible because such a promising engine has been adapted to a new kind of vehicles. MMZ sees a strong demand for MMZ-4DTI engines among manufacturers from various countries,” the source said.
The sweeper will be shipped to the manufacturer after trial runs at MMZ premises.
Minsk Motor Plant (MMZ trademark) makes modern diesel engines, gas and diesel engines, and gas reciprocating engines. The company specializes in developing, designing, and making modern three-, four-, six-, and eight-cylinder engines. The company offers over 100 modifications of engines with their output varying from 7kW to 330kW. They are designed to power agricultural machines, road construction machines, forestry vehicles, automobiles, buses, power supply plants, compressors, and other kinds of machinery. MMZ engines are shipped to assembly lines of 49 enterprises in Belarus, Russia, CIS, and non-CIS states. The products are sold in more than 50 countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, North and Latin America. Components of internationally recognized manufacturers are used to make MMZ engines.
