General Electric LM6000

The General Electric LM6000 is a turboshaft aeroderivative gas turbine engine derived from the CF6-80C2 aircraft turbofan. It has additions and modifications that suit it to marine propulsion and to industrial and marine power generation, including an expanded turbine section that converts thrust into shaft power, supports and struts for mounting on a steel or concrete deck, and reworked controls. It provides 54,610 shaft horsepower from either end of the low-pressure rotor system, which turns at 3,600 revolutions per minute so that the turbine runs at the 60 hertz electrical frequency of North America without a conventional power turbine. The LM6000 PC is rated at more than 43 megawatts at about 42 percent thermal efficiency, and options include SPRINT, water injection, steam injection and dry low emissions combustors.