THE CAT ENGINE PRODUCT LINE

Welcome to this Cat® Parts Pro e-learning course: Cat Engine

Product Line and Applications.

This course is designed for Caterpillar and dealer PSSRs, ISRs,

parts counter representatives and others with parts and service
customer contact. Its purpose is to provide a basic overview of
the Cat Engine Product Line and their use in various industries
and applications.
This is a foundational level course. If you’re unable to complete
this course in one sitting, you may exit and re-enter at any
time and return to the screen from which you exited.
Knowledge Checks are located throughout the course for
practice, and results are not recorded.

You must score 83 percent or higher on the Post-Assessment at

the end of this module to complete the course successfully.
Once you have started the Post-Assessment, you must finish it
or your results will not be recorded.
This Course is divided into two chapters.

In the first chapter, you’ll review Caterpillar’s engine history,

various Cat engine product lines and the facilities where those
engines are manufactured.

In the second chapter, you’ll walk through the numerous

applications in which Cat machine and commercial engines are
used.
When you’ve completed this course, you’ll have a good
understanding of Caterpillar’s broad engine product line, the
many ways in which our engines are used and how they help
satisfy the world’s diverse and growing energy needs. This
information will help you as you work with customers across
various applications and industries.

CAT Engines Product Lines

Let’s begin with some background and history on the Cat®
engine product line.

Caterpillar offers one of the broadest, most modern engine

product lines in the world—including several families of diesel
and spark-ignited engines with ratings from 5 to 16,000 kW or
6.7 to 21,460 hp.
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To satisfy the world’s diverse power needs, you’ll find Cat
engines in:

 On-highway trucks
 Ships
 Generator sets
 Locomotives
 And a variety of earthmoving, construction and material
handling equipment
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In this chapter, we’ll look at Caterpillar’s engine history, walk
through the various Cat engine product lines and review the
facilities where those engines are manufactured and supported.
For more than 80 years, Cat engines have powered the
machines and systems that have shaped our world. The first
Cat diesel engine, the D9900, produced 90 hp and weighed
5,000 pounds. It was manufactured in October 1931, and
others soon followed.

During the 1940s, production shifted to meet military demands,

but after the war, we focused on expansion. Throughout the
1950s, ’60s and ’70s, we added a number of new engine lines,
rapidly expanded our manufacturing capacity and modernized
our foundry. In the 1980s, we introduced more new diesel
engines than in any prior decade. And acquisitions of MaK™, FG
Wilson and Perkins® in the 1990s led to an even broader
engine offering.

Our focus throughout much of the first decade of the 21st

century was on emissions standards—developing solutions to
help customers maintain their productivity while meeting ever-
stricter regulations.

Today, we maintain a focus on offering an engine product line

that meets the power, performance, fuel economy and
regulatory needs of customers across industries and around the
world. Let’s take a closer look at those engines.

Small Engines: C0.5–C7.1

Small Cat engines—C0.5 to C7.1—are commonly used in
paving, excavation, forestry, building construction and smaller
commercial applications. They’re available in 2-, 3-, 4- or 6-
cylinder configurations, with displacement ranging from 0.5
liters (31 cubic inches) to 7.1 liters (427 cubic inches). These
engine families produce power ratings from 4.1 bkW (5.5 bhp)
to 225 bkW (302 bhp), depending on configuration and
application.

The Small Engine Model Numbers are: C0.5, C0.7, C1.1, C1.5,
C1.6, C1.7, C2.2, C3.3, C3.4, C4.4, C6.6, C7.1.

Medium Engines: C7–C32 ACERT™

Medium Cat engines—C7 through C32 ACERT—are typically
used in paving, excavation, forestry, building construction and
many commercial applications. The Medium Engine Model
Numbers are C7, C9, C11, C13, C15, C18, C27 and C32. These
engines are available in 6-, 8- and 12-cylinder configurations,
with displacement ranging from 7.2 liters (442 cubic inches) to
32.1 liters (1959 cubic inches). The C7–C18 engines are
"Inline” engines, and the C27 and C32 engines are 12-cylinder
engines in “V” configuration.

The C7 through C32 engine families produce power ratings

from 187 kW (250 hp) to 1417 kW (1900 hp), depending upon
configuration and application.

The C7 and C7 ACERT engines are 6-cylinder engines that are

7.2 liters or 442 cubic inches, with ratings from 187 kW (250
hp) to 276 kW (370 hp) and 339 kW (455 hp), depending on
configuration and application.

The C9 is an Inline 6-cylinder engine that is 8.8 liters or 537

cubic inches with rating from 375 kW (503 hp) to 423 kW (567
hp), depending on configuration and application.

The C9.3 is an Inline 6-cylinder engine that is 9.3 liters or

567.5 cubic inches with ratings from 129 kW (173 hp) to 298
kW (400 bhp), depending on configuration and application.

Large Engines: 3508–3520

The Cat 3500 engines provide a wide speed range—making
them popular in mining, construction, rail, power generation,
marine and industrial applications. They are available in V-8, V-
12 and V-16 diesel and gas configurations.

The 3508 engine is an 8-cylinder engine that is 34.5 liters

(2105 cubic inches) with ratings from 526 kW (705 hp) to 857
kW (1150 hp), depending on configuration and application.

The 3512 engine is a 12-cylinder engine that is 51.8 liters

(3158 cubic inches) with ratings from 900 kW (1207 hp) to
1305 kW (1750 hp), depending on configuration and
application.

The 3516 is a 16-cylinder engine that is between 69 liters

(4210 cubic inches) and 78 liters (4766 cubic inches), with
ratings between 1195 kW (1603 hp) to 2525 kW (3386 hp),
depending on configuration and application.

Large Engines: C175

The C175 engine is available in V-16 or V-20 configurations.
The C175-16 engine is a 16-cylinder engine in V configuration
with basic ratings from 2001 kW (2683 hp) to 2168 kW (2907
hp), depending on configuration and application. The C175-16
engine has a displacement of 85 liters or 5167 cubic inches.
The C175-16 and 20-cylinder versions are popular as diesel
generators. The 16-cylinder is also popular as marine
propulsion, electric drive propulsion for the locomotive and oil
and gas industries. This engine is also used in the 793F, 795F
and MT5300D mining and off-highway trucks.

The C175-20 engine is a 20-cylinder engine in V configuration

and is available in the 797F truck in a gross hp rating of 2983
kW (4000 hp), depending on configuration and application. This
engine has a displacement of 106 liters (6469 cubic inches).

Large Engines: C280

The C280 engine is commonly used for marine propulsion or
marine auxiliary applications and is also used as a generator
engine or for locomotive propulsion.

The C280-6 is an Inline 6-cylinder engine that is 111 liters

(6773 cubic inches) with ratings from 1640 kW (2200 hp) to
2030 kW (2722 hp), depending on configuration and
application.

The C280-8 is an Inline 8-cylinder engine. This engine is 148

liters (9031 cubic inches) and is available with ratings from
2180 kW (2925 bhp) to 2710 kW (3634 hp), depending on
configuration and application.

The C280-12 engine is a 12-cylinder engine in V configuration

that is 222 liters (13,546 cubic inches) with ratings from 3460
kW (4640 hp) to 4060 kW (5444 hp), depending on
configuration and application.

The C280-16 engine is a 16-cylinder engine in V configuration

that is 296 liters (18,062 cubic inches) and is available from
4600 kW (6169 hp) to 5650 kW (7577 hp), depending on
configuration and application.

Large Engines: 3606–3618

The 3600 engines are medium-speed engines and are popular
in a variety of marine, petroleum, power generation and
industrial applications.

Cat 3600 engines are available in Inline 6- and 8-cylinder as

well as V-12 and V-16 configurations.
The 3606 engine is 110.8 liters (6774 cubic inches) and is
available from 1324 kW (1775 hp) to 1850 kW (2481 hp),
depending on configuration and application.

The 3608 engine is 148 liters (9031 cubic inches) and is

available from 1767 kW (2370 hp) to 2710 kW (3635 bhp),
depending on configuration and application.

The 3612 engine is 221.7 liters (13,527 cubic inches) and is a

12-cylinder engine in V configuration. This engine is available
from 2647 kW (3550 hp) to 4060 kW (5445 hp), depending on
configuration and application.

The 3616 engine is 295.6 liters (18,036 cubic inches) and is a

16-cylinder engine in V configuration. This engine is available
from 3531 kW (4735 hp) to 5420 kW (7270 hp), depending on
configuration and application.

Gas Engines
In addition to diesel engines, we also offer a line of gas
engines—popular in petroleum, power generation and industrial
applications.

Cat gas engines feature ratings from 71 bkW (95 hp) to 3762
bkW (5045 hp), and MaK gas engines are rated between 4575
kW (6135 hp) and 10,000 kW (14,310 hp).

Gas Engine Model Numbers: G3306, G3406, G3412, CG132-8,

CG132-12, CG132-16, G3508, G3512, G3516, G3520, CG170-
12, CG170-16, CG170-20, G3608, G3612, G3616, CG260-12,
CG26016, MaK, G16CM34, G20CM34
Engine Family
A complete list of current engines by family is available in
the Caterpillar Performance Handbook. Many engines are used
in different markets with different power ratings. The latest
version of the Caterpillar Performance Handbook (SEBD0351)
can be accessed at CMIC.Cat.com for further information.

CAT Engines Applications

Cat engines are used in numerous applications.

Machine engines (sometimes called “captive” engines) power

Cat machines, including mining equipment, quarry and
specialty industries products, earthmoving machines,
excavation equipment and building construction and forestry
products.

Commercial engines power other types of products, typically

those used in applications like petroleum, marine, industrial,
electric power and on-highway.

Let’s look at applications for Cat machine engines first.

Machine Engines: Mining - You’ll find Cat engines in Cat

mining products like:
 Large dozers
 Off-highway trucks
 Underground mining trucks
 And underground mining load, haul and dump equipment
Machine Engines: Quarry & Specialty Industries – In
quarry and specialty industries—which include landfill and
defense applications—Cat engines power these Cat products:
 Wheel loaders
 Wheel dozers
 Quarry and construction trucks
 Wheel tractor scrapers
 And compactors
Machine Engines: Earthmoving – Cat engines provide
the power for a variety of Cat earthmoving equipment,
including:
 Medium dozers
 Medium track loaders
 Motor graders
 Medium wheel loaders
 And pipelayers
Machine Engines: Excavation - You’ll find Cat engines
inside Cat excavation products like:
 Large and medium hydraulic excavators
 Wheeled excavators
 Articulated trucks
 And material handlers
Machine Engines: Building Construction & Forestry
– In the building construction and forestry industries, Cat
engines power a range of Cat equipment, including:
 Small dozers
 Telehandlers
 Backhoe loaders
 Skid steer loaders
 Multi-terrain loaders
 Compact and small wheel loaders
 And forestry machines
Commercial Engines: Petroleum
Now, let’s talk about applications for Cat commercial engines.

For the oil and gas industry, Caterpillar offers engines with
power ranges from 71 bKW (95 bhp) to 18,000 kW (24,138
hp).
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In the petroleum industry, Cat gas and diesel engines provide
power in four key segments:

 Drilling
 Gas compression
 Well servicing
 And Production
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For a complete list of Cat engines that are available for the oil
and gas market, please reference the Caterpillar Performance
Handbook (SEBD0351). The latest version of the Caterpillar
Performance Handbook can be accessed at CMIC.Cat.com.

Petroleum: Drilling – For land-based drilling operations,

we’ve supplied more than 15,000 Cat 3500 engines to the
world’s leading drill rig manufacturers and contractors.

In the off-shore drilling market, many jack-up rigs and deep-

water semi-submersible rigs use Cat 3600 and C280 engines.

Petroleum: Gas Compression – Commonly considered a

residential and commercial heating source, natural gas is also
used for electric power generation and as an industrial
feedstock in the production of ammonia and other products.
Gas compression is a technique used to extract natural gas
from low-pressure wells and move it along a pipeline.
The gas compression business represents about 30 percent of
Caterpillar's global petroleum engine sales and almost 50
percent in North America. We also partner with leading gas
compression manufacturers, who typically pair our engines with
a compressor on a skid.

Petroleum: Well Service – Well services are methods of

improving well productivity. Pressure pumping (frac), coil
tubing, cementing and nitrogen pumpers are all forms of well
services that utilize Cat engines and transmissions once a well
is drilled. Pressure pumping uses a Cat 3512 engine, Cat
transmission and pump to pump fluid into the well and fracture
the ground. Cementing, coil tubing and nitrogen pumpers all
utilize the Cat inline-6 product line from a C9 to C18 with Cat
transmissions.

In addition, Cat engines and transmissions for workover rigs

provide power to drive these units and clean the well bore after
a well is in production for a period of time.

Petroleum: Production – In petroleum production, Cat

engines are commonly used to pump oil from wells to
refineries. They’re also used in generator sets that provide
power at land-based operations in remote locations.

Commercial Engines: Marine

In the marine industry, Cat engines power a wide variety of
vessels.

 Fishing vessels include trawlers, purse seiners, longliners,

gillnetters and trap boats.
 Work boats include tugboats, inland towboats, special
purpose boats, petroleum offshore service vessels, cargo
vessels, and integrated tub and barge units.
 Pleasure craft include sport fishing boats, motor yachts,
sports cruisers and motor sailers.
 Passenger vessels include ferries, cruise ships and ocean
transports.
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You’ll find Cat and MaK marine engines in generator sets,
providing auxiliary power and in propulsion engines. We’ll look
at each of those applications individually next. For a complete
list of Cat and MaK marine engines, please reference the latest
version of the Caterpillar Performance Handbook (SEBD0351)
at CMIC.cat.com

Commercial Engines: Marine - Generator Sets –

Eighteen different engine models are available for generator
sets, with ranges of 50 Hz kVA from 10.0 to 5200 Prime and 60
Hz kW from 12.0 to 4840 Prime.

MaK marine generator sets are available from 1020 to 14,400

kW (1224 to 17,280 kVA).

Commercial Engines: Marine – Auxiliary – For

auxiliary marine power, we offer 16 Cat engine models ranging
from 162 kW (217 hp) to 5240 kW (7268 hp).

Commercial Engines: Marine – Propulsion – We offer

26 engine models for marine propulsion. These engines range
in power from 93 kW (125 hp) to 5650 kW (7577 hp).

MaK marine propulsion engines range in power from 1020 kW

(1390 mhp) to 14,400 kW (19,584 mhp).
Commercial Engines: Electric Power Generation
Electric power generation includes generator sets, modular
power plants and portable power modules built to respond to
society’s growing demand for power.

For diesel, we offer generator sets at ratings from 6 eKW (8

hp) to 19,400 kVA (20,804 hp) and for gas, 25 eKW (33 hp) to
9700 eKW (13,002 hp). The Cat C1.5 through C175 engine
families are popular in package generator sets because of their
reliability, performance and power density.

Let’s take a closer look at four electric power generation

segments in which you’ll find Cat engines: standby, prime,
cogeneration and rental.

Electric Power Generation: Standby – Standby

generator sets supply electrical power in the event of a utility
power failure. Sometimes, they’re legally required to power
equipment or systems when failure may present a safety
hazard. Often, they’re used to minimize business disruption or
losses—or simply to eliminate the nuisance of an extended
power outage.

Cat generator sets are commonly used in standby applications

by businesses, hotels, schools, hospitals, data centers and
manufacturing facilities. Opportunities also exist for standby
gen-sets to provide backup service for small business,
residences and cell towers.

Electric Power Generation: Prime – Instead of utilizing

the local grid (e.g., electric utility), some customers choose, or
have no alternative but to use, generator sets as their primary
source of electric power. Prime power customers are often
located in remote or developing areas of the world where there
is no reliable utility service or the utility infrastructure does not
reach their location. You’ll find Cat gen-sets in prime power
applications on construction sites, rock quarries and powering
specialized machinery (such as, electric drills, walking
draglines, etc.).

In those cases where customers use their gen-set in a peak-

shaving or load management program, the application is also
prime power.

Electric Power Generation: Cogeneration – Producing

two kinds of energy, typically electric and thermal, from a
single source of fuel is known as cogeneration, or Combined
Heat and Power (CHP). Rather than paying for energy from two
sources—such as buying electricity from a utility and burning
natural gas or oil to produce heat or steam—customers can use
cogeneration techniques instead and recover up to two-thirds
of fuel energy.

Electric Power Generation: Rental – When it comes to

rental power generation, it’s important to offer a durable,
turnkey solution—one that requires little hassle to set up and
meets local sound, emissions and security requirements. Cat
rental gen-sets provide reliable, cost-effective, short- and long-
term solutions for various electricity needs.

Commercial Engines: Industrial

In industrial markets, you’ll find almost every Cat engine family
at work.

 Construction applications include bore and drill rigs,

compactors and rollers, mobile earthmoving machines,
paving equipment and trenchers.
 Mining applications include bore and drill rigs, shovels and
draglines, surface hauling equipment and underground
mining equipment.
 Agriculture applications include tractors, combines and
harvesters, irrigation equipment and sprayers.
 Forestry and waste applications include chippers and
grinders, feller bunchers, harvesters, loader forwarders and
skidders.
 Material handling applications include aerial lifts, chippers
and grinders, cranes, crushers, dredgers, fork lifts and
pumps.
 Industrial applications include aircraft ground support,
auxiliary power units, compressors, hydraulic power units,
mobile lighting systems, mobile sweepers, turf and
landscaping equipment and welders.
Caterpillar offers 50 diesel engine models for the industrial
market that range in power from 4.1 kW (5.5 hp) to 4920 kW
(6598 hp). EPA & EU Certified.

We also offer 14 engine models that are gas fueled and range
in power from 71 kW (95 hp) to 6100 kW (8180 hp) EPA
Certified.

Industrial: Rail
Another common industrial application for Cat engines is rail.
You’ll find Cat diesel engines in five major sectors of the
railway business worldwide:
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 Diesel-electric applications use a diesel engine to drive an
electric generator and alternator that powers electric wheel
motors.
 Diesel-hydraulic applications use a diesel engine coupled to a
hydrodynamic transmission.
 Diesel multiple units are passenger-carrying railcars with a
self-contained driveline.
 Maintenance of way equipment is used to maintain tracks
and right-of-ways for safe and efficient train operation.
 Auxiliary or head-end power is an electric power engine-
generator system located either in a locomotive or in a
separate power car in passenger train applications.
Caterpillar offers Locomotive traction engines from 205 bkW
(275 bhp) to 5420 bkW (7270 bhp). Auxiliary Electric (Head
End) power ratings range from 292 ekW at 50 Hz to 725 ekW
at 60 Hz.

On-Highway Legacy Engines

Cat engines have long powered trucks you see on the
highways—in fact, you’ll find about 1.6 million on the road
today.

In 2008, we stopped supplying new Cat truck engines to

traditional on-highway truck manufacturers. However,
Caterpillar and our dealers continue to provide parts and
service for legacy models with horsepower ranging from 111kW
(150 hp) to 466 kW (625 hp).

Our legacy truck engines include the 3208, 3116, 3126, 3176,
3306, 3406, 3408, C-7, C-9, C-10, C-11, C-12, C-13, C-15 and
C-16.

On-Highway: Cat Vocational Truck

In March of 2011, Caterpillar launched its first Vocational Truck
– the Cat CT660 – to customers in North America. Since that
time, Caterpillar has also launched its second model in the
Vocational Truck Line – the Cat CT681. The Cat CT660 and
CT681 utilize the Cat CT13 engine. These Class 8 vocational
trucks are purpose-built from the ground up for a wide variety
of heavy-duty work applications. The Vocational Truck Line is
currently available in the United States, Canada and Mexico
with plans to expand further in the years to come.

To satisfy the world’s diverse and growing energy needs, we

offer one of the industry’s broadest and most modern engine
product lines—manufactured, packaged and supported across
the globe.

You’ll find Cat machine engines in our mining equipment,

quarry and specialty industries products, earthmoving
machines, excavation equipment and building construction and
forestry products. Cat commercial engines power other types of
products, typically those used in industries like petroleum,
marine, industrial, electric power and on-highway.