Oil & Fuel Large diesel engine

[Grrrr]

Geee, that thing is going to drink fuel at some alarming rate Just read that it drinks 1660 gallons / hour

It would consume roughly the contents of this tank per hour :




It is amazing to think of how these engines are made and fitted in to the ship. The machines to make it must be massive.

 

[milkman]

118,000 hp at a screaming 102 rpm, must redline at about 115.

 

[jimg]

the engine isnt what impresses me.

its the idea that there are machines at least TWICE its size that cast it, machine it, and move it.

THATS what i find amazeing!

Well said!

 

[RoyJackson]

Very impressive!!!
Thanks for posting this!

 

[madpogue]

I wonder if you can push-start it....

 

[DieselPower]

Actually the engine in the link is one of their older engines. The current engine is a RT-Flex 96C and puts out 80,080 kW at 102 RPM.

The RT-Flex 96C is used in the Ebba Maersk which is a 11,000 TEU Maersk PS-class container vessel (it holds 11,000 containers). The ship weighs in at 156,907 tons. Recently Odense Steel Shipyard in Denmark launched the latest version of this ship.

There's actually a very good article on the ship and the engine in a magazine I get, Diesel & Gas Turbine Worldwide.

D&G Turbine Worldwide article.

 

[johnk]

What the heck does the starter look like?? It must be as big as a house. What kind of power plant energizes the starter? Must have high tension towers on the docks.

 

[DieselPower]

Most likely either 3 phase motors or a seperate diesel engine is used for starting it. Some tractors have a small engine used to start the larger drive engine.

 

[Onthesauk]

Someone has told me they are designed so any one cylinder can be taken off line and repaired while the remainder continue to work.

Don't know on ones that big, but don't a lot of the ship engines use compressed air to get them turning over and started?

 

[patrick_g]

I had a forward from someone else in my email saying that ship will cross the Pacific in about 4 days, carrying all kinds of wonderful lead based products from China to poison our kids.

Very interesting Teacha, but I am at a loss to know what sort of lead based cargo to which is referred, perhaps yo coiuld give some examples to enlighten me.

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When I was fresh from 9+ months of school and arrived at my permanent duty station in SAC (USAF) the building I worked in had an aux genset for standby power. Of course the engine didn't move anything but electrons but the cylinders were large enough that the maint troops rode up and down on top of the pistons to inspect. Tube type computers took lots of power.

Pat