What a beast. In my youth I worked for Cooper Bessemer in Stratford Ontario Canada. The 20 or 16 cylinder KSV was the largest engine they made at that time. It had a 63 foot long crankshaft. That is coming from an 80 year old so likely I may be making mistakes. I was 18 when I started there. Right out of machinist school. They found that getting us fresh and new we weren't bothered by the size of the engines and pipe line compressors we were making .Trade machinists traditionally didn't stay there very long. Seeing this sure brings a lot og great memories back to me. Thank you.
Such a giant of an engine and engine room, and not a speck of dust or oil anywhere and not a pin out of place. the place is so clean that I wouldn't mind sleeping on the floor with the sound of these giant engines buzzing all around. people responsible for their upkeep deserve a medal for their hard work. I just love the whole technical area.
@@dudekfox7685 with such sharp eyes, you should become a sniper and serve your country. I had to play the video 3 times to see where the wooden pallets were.
The mechanical noise in a diesel engine room is off the chart, and the heat when in the tropics is hellish, time spent in ships engine rooms will cure one of complaining about minor discomforts...
Pretty amazing. My Dad was a machinist. Mid 70's-early 80's He made the pistons and other main parts for the Navy ships built during those years. He would tell me how big the Pistons and rods were for the ships motors. Pretty Cool.
Hi @Christchild211. Yes it is amazing to see these massive machines. Coming up is a new video of a ship with no less than six main engines... this thing is huge. Also in a couple of weeks I hope to have a new video of a container ship engineroom. Those are often extremely spacious. Stay tuned.
107,000HP at 102RPM is about 5.5 million ft-lbs of torque. I'll be very interested to see the battery and electric motor technology that will replace this...
Well the navy did just create one that could be powered by a reactor that is 50% as strong as this one. Two of those and a reactor would probably still be smaller than this. The future is here buddy
Amazing, you have to take your hat off to the very clever engineers who design and build these incredible ship engines. This ship is 400 metres long?, wow that’s almost half a kilometre.
@@C_Burke Hi Cody. I have been working as a service engineer since 2004. Started as electrician in a company that made maritime equipment like switchboards etc.
@@NICOSTONES wearing ear protection makes is workable. However, In the tropics you have to press the sweat out of them on a regular basis. With your head in the silencer of the turbocharger to check the oil level at compressor side was lifting your ear protection a short screaming experience
@@murkymrglbrgl4291 we have the technology to 'clean' the emissions from these ships. nuvinuvi.blogspot.com A 6 cylinder diesel engine is the same as a 20 cylinder engine in terms of reducing their emissions!
In the early 1,960s B&W produced marine diesel engines with a power output of 2,000 HP (1,500 kW) per cylinder. 60 years later these new engines produce four times as much power per cylinder than the engines I attended on board ships in the early 1,960s! If that is not progress I don't know what is!
Very proud to be in this engine room as 3rd Engineer. 5 months contract CMA CGM Marco Polo 396 meters long with 16 000 container capacity .Main Engine 108 000 HP original power , and 4 Himsen diesel generators 2 with 3500 kw 2 with 2800 kw with installed Scrubber system both on ME & DG
Hi Dario. Marco Polo is probably the sistership from this one. This is from CMA CGM Alexander Von Humbolt. Yes it is very impressive. I was working on parts of the scrubber system onboard.
@@andresteinum Hi Andre yes Scrubber system still needs some time to adjust. I was onboard when Yara and Baltik engineers where working on it. Thanx for reply !
Hey if you all dont mind me asking, how did you end up doing this type of work? How did you get this job? Did you go to engineering school? Any college degrees? Please reply! Thanks 😇
@@C_Burke Hi after i finished maritime high school i went as engine cadet for 12 months. after that i finished course for Engineering officer. i went as 4th engineer and later after 2 years promoted to 3rd engineer. Now im finishing college at the moment so i can become 2nd engineer in the future.
Andre Steinum thanks for the prompt reply. It’s a temp gig for a few days then hopefully he can find another position for a good stretch before he goes active duty late summer/early fall. He prefers the larger vessels. 2 summers ago he spent 3 months in the GOM on the smaller Overseas Cascade. He liked working for OSG.
I've been on sulzer12rtac for quite sometime i love the sound of blowing/starting and cranking of the behemoth main engine and when the start of sea passage begin you have a very nice orchestra hit that last for weeks...
I had a look on board a ship called Dewdale in 1974. She was on charter to the MoD. She had a 9 cylinder Burmeister-Wain diesel engine producing 19,500 horse power. That was big, but not as big as this one. Truly an amazing feat of engineering!!
Now this is my bag!😍 Look at this thing.. it's so huge! I could look at this beauty all day long and not get tired of it. What ship is that? Must be a monster to be able to house this engine.. all of that that the camera is filming is the engine.. good lord.WOW. Geeking out here...
this monster engine------belongs to the register factory---wartsila, a finland industrial factory, but, most of the engine's components are built in germany, then those components parts will transport to assembly plant in japan for construction into an entire/complete engine, and then, the whole unit will be shipped several hundreds miles away to daewoo ship yard for installation on board of any huge commercial ships , daewoo ship yard is a huge ship manufacturing site in south korea, currently is the largest commercial cargo ship, tanker ship and container ship manufacturing site in the whole world.
Main engine with a couple of "little" loco engines for generators. . Enjoyed your walk around. Second best to being there. Would love to do a trip to see how it all works closeup.
I love big ! I worked for Cooper Bessemer in the mid 70's and into the early 80's. We made a number of 16 and 20 cylinder ships and nuclear back up cooling engines. I loved every single days I was there operating many vertical boring machines. Tables from 6 to 24 feet. Ah to be young again, LOL.
I joined a Bank Line ship with a 4 cyln.Doxford engine,the ship was almost 150 meters long and after sailing inside trawlers 50 meters long,it was not like being at sea ,but more like working in a factory.
Thank you for your positive respons. I will post many more similar videos in the future. I travel to all kinds of ships all the time. Also if you want to have video of something else on ships, than let me know.
Ha ha. Thank you Frank. I totally agree. Actually I am investing in better audio recording equipment, so you can hear more details in the engine noise in future video's. And make sure you really turn up the volume so high that you need to wear ear protection, just to feel the situation. 😉
@@krakenwoodfloorservicemcma5975 Sure they are highly intelligent questions ;-). Let me ansver them quickly now: 1. If you name your massive container ship "Chevy", you can "put one in it. Your Chevy pickup would not even have the capacity to lift even one of the turbo's. 2. No it is not a HEMI. It is a two stroke engine that has pistons with nearly flat tops. Also these engines would be able to burn mostly anything you put into them. Take your asfalt in your street, heat it up enough to be liquified, filter it, and keep it warm. The engine would run on it... Beat that.
Several issues. Cost related ( capital cost of nuke plant, cost of specialized nuclear training, cost of extra crew to run nuke plant). Also political items in that many nations did not want visits from nuclear powered ships.
I think we should be VERY VERY grateful we dont have 1000´s of nuclear powered commercial ships flagged in Monrovia travelling around on the world sea´s is less then poor condition just waiting for the next maritime meltdown, if it is something you want to keep away from a melting reactor it is salt...
Because of human stupidity of being scared of something that is not well understood and not enough people willing to learn hard subjects to be competent at working on nuclear powered equipment. But had we gone with nuclear, than we could have had million horsepower cargo ships that move MUCH MORE shipping containers than this diesel engine AND we would not have to worry about air pollution and killing each other over oil in Middle eastern countries.
Worked at a large iron fab shop in 1976. We often worked on grain ships docked in the port. Once I had to go do something in an engine room. It was so hot that within about 15 seconds all my clothes were soaked with my sweat! Would have been nice to see a thermometer on the wall in this engine room. On another occasion I had to deliver piston rings to a ship. They were bigger than the pickup truck bed and hung out over one side by about a foot!
I'd be nervous even being around a machine like that. Bigass engines like these are awesome yet terrifying. The forces behind driving the engine and main shaft are just incomprehensible. Lol
The guy that came up to me in the video, said the fire alarm had gone of... but I think the sound actually was the phone in the engine control room calling.
I worked on a ship with similar engine size, engine was 110 feet long 12 cylinder Sulzer with 4 turbos about 10 feet diameter. Fastest diesel cargo ship in the world at the time. Built in 1957. This new engine is probably 8 times more powerful.
Awesome! It would have been even better if you'd climbed onto the gantry right beside the cylinder heads, as the combustion cracking would have sounded even more impressive, as from the mezenine, it still sounded like shotguns going off! The noise from the turbos throughout was also impressive, especially so when you walked close going past the air inlets, as also it goes to show the quantity it consumed, as the mic picked up the terrific turbulence from each! Thanks!😉 I love seeing huge engines & big machinery working hard & well!👌
They don't really change oil on these. It is a continuous consumption of oil, and they have a tank with 650 m3 of engine oil onboard.... Massive numbers.
@@andresteinum Honestly I thought it might have a dry sump oil system due to the size. A crankshaft that big with a giant oil sump pan would hold thousands of gallons of oil.
@@harrrrrrriiiii So does the oil drip off the crank into the sump or is it pumped through the crank into the sump? If the latter, that is a "Dry Sump" system.
@BuckJackson-kc8pb the oil drips into the crankcase which is placed above the sump, thus oil reaches the sump, and then again it's pumped back to the engine, but before it's pumped to the engine its filtered and cooled down.
Not to forget, these RT Flex96C engines were originally developed and designed by Sulzer - New Sulzer Diesel in Winterthur, Switzerland. New Sulzer Diesel merged with Wärtsilä in 1997.
@@Horgnerbueb amazing to think that a Swiss company was the leading producer of huge diesel marine engines when the sea is hundreds of miles in any direction .!!
@@johnmpifer I used to deal with Sulzer in Winterthur and asked them that question.They started by building diesel engines for railway locomotives and to use the words of the Swiss engineer he said "it eventually sort if got out if hand "! !!!! Never let anyone tell you the Swiss don't have a sense of humour !!!
@Mathias Elslidnul well a large marine diesel engine weighs 2500 tons -is over 30 metres long and 15 metres high .It makes more sense to build them where the ships are built than ship then half way around the world to the ship builder for installation in the vessel .For example we build Hitachi railway locomotives in the UK as it is much more sensible than shipping fully assembled 100 ton locomotives from Japan .
Many years ago I worked on Ingersol Rand 12 cylinder SVG compressor engines. They were huge engines and, really cool to work on but, they were tiny compared to this behemoth…
On this specific ship, they had it downgraded to save fuel. One turbine has been blinded off, and there is a new designed propeller. The rpm has been lowered from 102 to 90 rpm I think it was (don't remember excact numbers). This reduced the fuel consumption from 250 tons a day to 160 tons I believe it was. Correct me if I am wrong here. Also reduced the speed of the ship with 10 knots. Down to 25...
The engine room is as clean as an operation theatre. Whoever is / are doing it, deserve a gold medal. I can't keep my kitchen so clean!!!!!
It has manpower on shift-duty exclusively to take care of it...at it's every inch.
What a beast. In my youth I worked for Cooper Bessemer in Stratford Ontario Canada. The 20 or 16 cylinder KSV was the largest engine they made at that time. It had a 63 foot long crankshaft. That is coming from an 80 year old so likely I may be making mistakes. I was 18 when I started there. Right out of machinist school. They found that getting us fresh and new we weren't bothered by the size of the engines and pipe line compressors we were making .Trade machinists traditionally didn't stay there very long. Seeing this sure brings a lot og great memories back to me. Thank you.
Diesel engines cruse ship
Such a giant of an engine and engine room, and not a speck of dust or oil anywhere and not a pin out of place. the place is so clean that I wouldn't mind sleeping on the floor with the sound of these giant engines buzzing all around. people responsible for their upkeep deserve a medal for their hard work. I just love the whole technical area.
True but the wooden pallet storage leaves a bit of room for improvement.
@@dudekfox7685 with such sharp eyes, you should become a sniper and serve your country. I had to play the video 3 times to see where the wooden pallets were.
@@cyrilsingh3465 Anything for you and my country.
@@dudekfox7685That's very gracious of you. God bless you.
After a while,that rithmic thundering is like a lullaby....been there done that👍
The mechanical noise in a diesel engine room is off the chart, and the heat when in the tropics is hellish, time spent in ships engine rooms will cure one of complaining about minor discomforts...
did it for almost 30 years, enjoyed and survived 😂
@@dieterk9568I only did 4 years back in the 1960s, in steam and diesel, memories I wouldn't trade for anything ... cheers
I started as a wiper in 1988 and retired 1A/E. Thanks for the videos!
which country's fleet were you working at sir?
I am absolutely fascinated by those humongous turbochargers
Joe Bidens 6 rotor charge cooled wankel 2 stroke has 3300 hp
Im not sure what is more impressive, That something this size actually runs or how this engine is actually manufactured
Or even designed
And repaired
Pretty amazing. My Dad was a machinist. Mid 70's-early 80's He made the pistons and other main parts for the Navy ships built during those years. He would tell me how big the Pistons and rods were for the ships motors. Pretty Cool.
Hi @Christchild211. Yes it is amazing to see these massive machines. Coming up is a new video of a ship with no less than six main engines... this thing is huge. Also in a couple of weeks I hope to have a new video of a container ship engineroom. Those are often extremely spacious. Stay tuned.
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107,000HP at 102RPM is about 5.5 million ft-lbs of torque. I'll be very interested to see the battery and electric motor technology that will replace this...
Well the navy did just create one that could be powered by a reactor that is 50% as strong as this one. Two of those and a reactor would probably still be smaller than this. The future is here buddy
@@devoncantrell3311 just checked i completely agree with you but old diesel engines still bangs tho.
@@idiotsgame4484 sorry for the snarky bit at the end. But yeah no the power of electric motors vs their size is insane.
Doesn't need to just Convert it to hydrogen.
@@devoncantrell3311 somalin dirty bomb.
Amazing, you have to take your hat off to the very clever engineers who design and build these incredible ship engines.
This ship is 400 metres long?, wow that’s almost half a kilometre.
Hats of to the person who has shot this video, superbly maintained engine room
Thank you Mohamed. Stay tuned, a new video is coming any day now. From a very special ship..
How nice of you to say so sir 😎
@@andresteinum hoping for a reply, but how did you aquire a job like this? Like how did you get into this field?
@@C_Burke Hi Cody. I have been working as a service engineer since 2004. Started as electrician in a company that made maritime equipment like switchboards etc.
I watch this video to feel manly again after watching cute animal videos.
😂👍
Haha!!! 😂
I watch it for the relaxing sound, after watching auto accident, autopsy, and cartel killing videos.
अजस्र!
Feel you
Those auxiliary engines look like the main engines of a u-boat
Why you got to be all giant steel balls and all that.. atleast pretend to be normal
What?
Those are generators
@@Zeckmon3 Ignore him!
He Fukky E-literate!!!
A floating cathedral of engineering.
I've been retired for ten years and this video Brought back old memories..
We say to you god bless you sir its too much hard work ..tel me how feule in one day need..for big ship
This is nothing less than a modern cathedral. Just as big, just as impressive. Awesome!
That's a great tour of the engine and auxiliaries rooms! Thanks.
Full watch. Nice sharing good Content. Really it's beautiful and wonderful
that puts new meaning to the term big block
Been working for 5 years in such engine rooms.
What a life that was.
Great job...except for the sound how high was the dB? in the rooms?
@@NICOSTONES wearing ear protection makes is workable.
However, In the tropics you have to press the sweat out of them on a regular basis. With your head in the silencer of the turbocharger to check the oil level at compressor side was lifting your ear protection a short screaming experience
Me: watching locomotive engines
Me: wow, big and powerful!
TH-cam: so, wanna see this monstrous 80.000 KW naval engine?
Me: YES. YES I DO
Yes the giant wartsilas, sulters or man b@w 2 strokes,
Cat 2 stroke with laseer ports cut into it, could be done on any CNC laser! hehe
Thank you Korea One of the most efficient engines ever!
I would love to get there and see it with my own eyes. Thanks for posting.
proud to say I have worked on this engine🤩🤩🤩
I envy you
how about its emissions when running on bunker oil?
What was your position?
@@murkymrglbrgl4291 we have the technology to 'clean' the emissions from these ships. nuvinuvi.blogspot.com A 6 cylinder diesel engine is the same as a 20 cylinder engine in terms of reducing their emissions!
In the early 1,960s B&W produced marine diesel engines with a power output of 2,000 HP (1,500 kW) per cylinder. 60 years later these new engines produce four times as much power per cylinder than the engines I attended on board ships in the early 1,960s! If that is not progress I don't know what is!
Very proud to be in this engine room as 3rd Engineer. 5 months contract CMA CGM Marco Polo 396 meters long with 16 000 container capacity .Main Engine 108 000 HP original power , and 4 Himsen diesel generators 2 with 3500 kw 2 with 2800 kw with installed Scrubber system both on ME & DG
Hi Dario. Marco Polo is probably the sistership from this one. This is from CMA CGM Alexander Von Humbolt. Yes it is very impressive. I was working on parts of the scrubber system onboard.
@@andresteinum Hi Andre yes Scrubber system still needs some time to adjust. I was onboard when Yara and Baltik engineers where working on it. Thanx for reply !
Hey if you all dont mind me asking, how did you end up doing this type of work? How did you get this job? Did you go to engineering school? Any college degrees? Please reply! Thanks 😇
@@C_Burke Hi after i finished maritime high school i went as engine cadet for 12 months. after that i finished course for Engineering officer. i went as 4th engineer and later after 2 years promoted to 3rd engineer. Now im finishing college at the moment so i can become 2nd engineer in the future.
@@dario281 that is absolutely awesome! Good luck on all your travels! Cheers!
After just graduating from college a week ago, our son’s 1st temporary gig as a 3rd is onboard Maersk Iowa helping maintain a beast like this.
He is very lucky to go straight to the big one. These giants really need some planning to maintain.
Andre Steinum thanks for the prompt reply. It’s a temp gig for a few days then hopefully he can find another position for a good stretch before he goes active duty late summer/early fall. He prefers the larger vessels. 2 summers ago he spent 3 months in the GOM on the smaller Overseas Cascade. He liked working for OSG.
I have worked on the M. Iowa’s Alarm and Control System in the engine room a few times.
I've been on sulzer12rtac for quite sometime i love the sound of blowing/starting and cranking of the behemoth main engine and when the start of sea passage begin you have a very nice orchestra hit that last for weeks...
RMS titanic nuclearship reactor
With 107 thousand bhp and 7.6 million Nm of torque, that engine is the definition of absolute power.
The engine room is very clean.
I had a look on board a ship called Dewdale in 1974. She was on charter to the MoD. She had a 9 cylinder Burmeister-Wain diesel engine producing 19,500 horse power. That was big, but not as big as this one. Truly an amazing feat of engineering!!
Burmeister and Wain,for me the best ones.
B&W,the best engines I have worked with.
Diesel generator room Disney cruise ship
Turbos are the loudest source of noise, just like big rigs.
Everything is cleaner than I'm able to keep my kitchen.
siiiiii igual mi cocina sis jjajjaj , saludos desde cordoba Argentina 🤣🤣🤣🤣
You should see it after a overhaul but it was cleaned up quickly after the job and you waxed and polished the floors in the engine room.
Now this is my bag!😍 Look at this thing.. it's so huge! I could look at this beauty all day long and not get tired of it. What ship is that? Must be a monster to be able to house this engine.. all of that that the camera is filming is the engine.. good lord.WOW. Geeking out here...
He is not only handsome and well mannered, but very strong too😊
Me as CEO: Lets put an Acropovic exhaust on it
This engine weighs 2300 tons,
generates: 7 500 000 Nm of torque at 102 rpm.
Displacement 14 x 1820dm3 = 25,480 dm3 (25,480,000 cm3)
this monster engine------belongs to the register factory---wartsila, a finland industrial factory, but, most of the engine's components are built in germany, then those components parts will transport to assembly plant in japan for construction into an entire/complete engine, and then, the whole unit will be shipped several hundreds miles away to daewoo ship yard for installation on board of any huge commercial ships , daewoo ship yard is a huge ship manufacturing site in south korea, currently is the largest commercial cargo ship, tanker ship and container ship manufacturing site in the whole world.
very interesting and thank you for the breakdown!
I thought the Doosan Engine company is S. Korean.
Beautiful engine room. The chief runs a professional crew no doubt.
像似一座超級工廠、技術創新實在厲害！很敬拜這些工程師展現實力、讚賞！
Wonderful! Scotty would love it!
I am afraid Scotty has been beamed up...
অনেকের ভিডিও দেখেছি, বাট আপনার মত এত কাছ থেকে সুন্দর করে কেউ দেখাতে পারেনি, ধন্যবাদ।
I was 1st engineer at 10rt flex 96-c
That was hard time but now i miss that.
This whole thing is so massive, I can hardly process the fact that this is a moving object swimming on water
What an awesome workspace, almost as clean as the galley.
It never ceases to amaze me what man has accomplished in the 21st century
threi s polsaka stupid "engineer" that is lost in the engine room. 02:44
Main engine with a couple of "little" loco engines for generators. . Enjoyed your walk around. Second best to being there. Would love to do a trip to see how it all works closeup.
HUGE Diesel and Gas engine start up's: th-cam.com/play/PLTzZwpPuGZAIoBu89JX5budHu7KTEWU6a.html
I guess Rudolf Diesel would say the same about this engine as the Wright Brothers would say about the Airbus 380. “WTF is that”
Jon Rudolf. Yes. Yes he would.
Hats off to the wiper(s), That is one clean machine!
Lol. It's a foreign flag vessel, they probably have six wipers.
@@hueyfreeman7010 probably only two
Made in Korea. Very good. Number one.
Engine = Wärtsilä = from Finland.. The ship is built by Doosan = South Korean
I love big ! I worked for Cooper Bessemer in the mid 70's and into the early 80's. We made a number of 16 and 20 cylinder ships and nuclear back up cooling engines. I loved every single days I was there operating many vertical boring machines. Tables from 6 to 24 feet. Ah to be young again, LOL.
"Nice Honda bro."
"Thanks man. I'm thinking about doing the 14RT swap pretty soon."
/parks civic inside of crankcase. hah!
I did not see it before but the crankshaft port covers were flexing in unison with the downstroke of each piston.
About where in the video is that? Sorry, but I'm not sure what the port covers looks like. I couldn't see any movement in the big rectangular doors.
Amazing technology. My last ship was a first generation Ro-Ro built by Wilhelmsen. 3 SEMT Pielstick engines looked tiny compared to this engine.
Question,how they were those engines? I have heard a lot of negative notes....
The propeller definetly has a huge torque ,fight against the water and also handling the entire ships
Do you have a clip of the v-tech kicking in?
I joined a Bank Line ship with a 4 cyln.Doxford engine,the ship was almost 150 meters long and after sailing inside trawlers 50 meters long,it was not like being at sea ,but more like working in a factory.
The boiler plate said the output was 80000 KW. If I did it right, that's about 107,000 hp. That's a lot of horsepower.
A lot of horsepower indeed, around 80000kW's worth :-)
Everything is massive, even the entire engine room...awesome!
Pretty dang cool. thanks for posting this.
Fantastic!1 I really enjoyed the sights and sounds. Thank you for taking the time to show us.
Thank you for your positive respons. I will post many more similar videos in the future. I travel to all kinds of ships all the time. Also if you want to have video of something else on ships, than let me know.
Thats an enormous engine but suddenly became tiny when you see the whole ship.
Can I fit this into my Toyota Corolla and if so what fuel consumption can I expect?
Yes it will fit right in. Expect a fuel consumtion of about 190 tons a day... Maybe consider a Supra engine instead..
@@andresteinum 🤣
Why is it that people always write such stupid comments, just enjoy the video and shut up about it, I liked the video, good job 👍🏼
Ha ha. Thank you Frank. I totally agree. Actually I am investing in better audio recording equipment, so you can hear more details in the engine noise in future video's. And make sure you really turn up the volume so high that you need to wear ear protection, just to feel the situation. 😉
Oh come on? What is stupid about - “CAN I PUT ONE IN CHEVY”... or “IS IT A HEMI?”.. these are highly intelligent questions.
@@krakenwoodfloorservicemcma5975 Sure they are highly intelligent questions ;-). Let me ansver them quickly now: 1. If you name your massive container ship "Chevy", you can "put one in it. Your Chevy pickup would not even have the capacity to lift even one of the turbo's. 2. No it is not a HEMI. It is a two stroke engine that has pistons with nearly flat tops. Also these engines would be able to burn mostly anything you put into them. Take your asfalt in your street, heat it up enough to be liquified, filter it, and keep it warm. The engine would run on it... Beat that.
I was passed by the Mearsk Iowa and The One Tribute the other day whilst at sea, amazing machines
That is absolutely beautiful!!!
GREAT video....so nice to see a 14
Definitely need ear muff. I can stand large 6-cyl in close confinement but this is God level.
Outstanding! Thank you very much.
I'm a marine engineer, This is impressive. In the 50's we had produced a nuclear ship's propulsion system. Why did we abandon that??
Because those can explode like atom bomb.
@@sylviaisgod6947 A nuclear 2 stroke that's what we need.
Several issues. Cost related ( capital cost of nuke plant, cost of specialized nuclear training, cost of extra crew to run nuke plant). Also political items in that many nations did not want visits from nuclear powered ships.
I think we should be VERY VERY grateful we dont have 1000´s of nuclear powered commercial ships flagged in Monrovia travelling around on the world sea´s is less then poor condition just waiting for the next maritime meltdown, if it is something you want to keep away from a melting reactor it is salt...
Because of human stupidity of being scared of something that is not well understood and not enough people willing to learn hard subjects to be competent at working on nuclear powered equipment. But had we gone with nuclear, than we could have had million horsepower cargo ships that move MUCH MORE shipping containers than this diesel engine AND we would not have to worry about air pollution and killing each other over oil in Middle eastern countries.
Lovely clean engine room. Certainly a lot different to when I was at sea.
I think it is about 12 t per hour ! But it is also more than 100 000 hp !
Yes originally 13,3 ton an hour. This one had been modified to reduce the oil consumption. Don't know how much it now use. 108 000 hp.
So smooth you wouldn’t think thousands of tons of metal is wiping around.
time 2:19 it is 80,080 kW at 102 rpm. and
1 hp = 0.745699872 kilowatts;
so 80080 kw= 80080/0.745699872= 107 389 horse Power or hp.
Worked at a large iron fab shop in 1976. We often worked on grain ships docked in the port. Once I had to go do something in an engine room. It was so hot that within about 15 seconds all my clothes were soaked with my sweat! Would have been nice to see a thermometer on the wall in this engine room. On another occasion I had to deliver piston rings to a ship. They were bigger than the pickup truck bed and hung out over one side by about a foot!
I worked on engine overhauls in engine rooms with big reciprocating compressors running on both sides of me. You sweated out gallons in a workday.
@@rooky55 Hey; it's one of the perks of the job; Free Sauna! LOL!
Every engineer should have nervous reaction to this telephone ring while around main shaft! :0
I'd be nervous even being around a machine like that. Bigass engines like these are awesome yet terrifying. The forces behind driving the engine and main shaft are just incomprehensible. Lol
Yes, first thought...is something wrong? Low oil pressure?
The guy that came up to me in the video, said the fire alarm had gone of... but I think the sound actually was the phone in the engine control room calling.
Being a mechanic of 44 years retired now ,would love to see one of these ,✌by the way the small diesels were they gen sets
MaK M32.
The best medium speed money can buy, and sure auxiliaries no doubts.
All that machinery to bring a $6 toaster from China to Walmart.
And consume tons of fuel per hour. However, impressiv . Greetings from Germany
@@jayindy4068 still the most efficient way to do it even if it does use a ton of fuel.
The machinery to bring a few millions of toasters at a time...
@@nukkinfuts6550 just one
@@nukkinfuts6550 came here to say exactly this! And they shuttle more than finished goods, they can move oil or other bulk cargo.
Amazing how clean everything is. Love to know what ship it is
well its not the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales because the drive shaft isn't broken.
clean before filming
@@damirzamirKeeping an engine room clean is just good seamanship. Helps a lot with spotting leaking pipes...
I worked on a ship with similar engine size, engine was 110 feet long 12 cylinder Sulzer with 4 turbos about 10 feet diameter. Fastest diesel cargo ship in the world at the time. Built in 1957. This new engine is probably 8 times more powerful.
Love the scream of those turbochargers.
Sea speed baby!
Whats the pressure in psi of the turbos in that?
Awesome! It would have been even better if you'd climbed onto the gantry right beside the cylinder heads, as the combustion cracking would have sounded even more impressive, as from the mezenine, it still sounded like shotguns going off! The noise from the turbos throughout was also impressive, especially so when you walked close going past the air inlets, as also it goes to show the quantity it consumed, as the mic picked up the terrific turbulence from each!
Thanks!😉 I love seeing huge engines & big machinery working hard & well!👌
Wonder how many quarts of oil it takes for an oil change. ;D
They don't really change oil on these. It is a continuous consumption of oil, and they have a tank with 650 m3 of engine oil onboard.... Massive numbers.
@@andresteinum
Honestly I thought it might have a dry sump oil system due to the size. A crankshaft that big with a giant oil sump pan would hold thousands of gallons of oil.
It has a sump but the crankcase is dry and the sump is located beneath the crankcase and it's pumped into the engine with the help of pumps
@@harrrrrrriiiii
So does the oil drip off the crank into the sump or is it pumped through the crank into the sump? If the latter, that is a "Dry Sump" system.
@BuckJackson-kc8pb the oil drips into the crankcase which is placed above the sump, thus oil reaches the sump, and then again it's pumped back to the engine, but before it's pumped to the engine its filtered and cooled down.
Сила,мощь,красота. Горжусь своей работой на флоте. МКО.
Is it the Emma Maersk? 400m!
Its like taking a tour of a mansion sized engine!
Wärtsilä ......From Finland, with Doosan Engine Co ....
Not to forget, these RT Flex96C engines were originally developed and designed by Sulzer - New Sulzer Diesel in Winterthur, Switzerland. New Sulzer Diesel merged with Wärtsilä in 1997.
@@Horgnerbueb amazing to think that a Swiss company was the leading producer of huge diesel marine engines when the sea is hundreds of miles in any direction .!!
@@ronnieince4568 I had the same thought
@@johnmpifer I used to deal with Sulzer in Winterthur and asked them that question.They started by building diesel engines for railway locomotives and to use the words of the Swiss engineer he said "it eventually sort if got out if hand "! !!!! Never let anyone tell you the Swiss don't have a sense of humour !!!
@Mathias Elslidnul well a large marine diesel engine weighs 2500 tons -is over 30 metres long and 15 metres high .It makes more sense to build them where the ships are built than ship then half way around the world to the ship builder for installation in the vessel .For example we build Hitachi railway locomotives in the UK as it is much more sensible than shipping fully assembled 100 ton locomotives from Japan .
That’s awesome! Would love to see it in person.
Respects to the marine merchant navy engineers in the engine room my father was one for 9 years in the 1960's respects respects hundred times over
Awesome piece of gear, incredible engineering, somebody designed this thing, would love an engineering job on this ship
Mr Steinum. Your videos are interesting BUT put some descriptions of what we're seeing. Not all of us are marine engineers
Now that's impressive ! 👍👍
wow very clean and well mainteined
Many years ago I worked on Ingersol Rand 12 cylinder SVG compressor engines. They were huge engines and, really cool to work on but, they were tiny compared to this behemoth…
3:58 why is the turbo not connected to the exhaust manifold?
Slow steaming?
On this specific ship, they had it downgraded to save fuel. One turbine has been blinded off, and there is a new designed propeller. The rpm has been lowered from 102 to 90 rpm I think it was (don't remember excact numbers). This reduced the fuel consumption from 250 tons a day to 160 tons I believe it was. Correct me if I am wrong here. Also reduced the speed of the ship with 10 knots. Down to 25...
A very good looking engine room.
Sounds very sweet I like it
Those little blue motors are so cute! 😅