What is the largest ship diesel?

Discussion in 'Diesel Engines' started by DennisRB, Sep 30, 2010.

  1. wardd
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    with a 6 to 1 ratio
     
  2. FAST FRED
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    The most fun is there folks are working on getting these monsters Tier III compliant ! For the Air Police.

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  3. The Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C is a two stroke turbocharged diesel, 25.480 liters of displacement, 14 cylinders, 108.920 Hp, 7.600.000 (7.6 million) N.m of max torque @ 102 Rpm, 2.086 tons and 6000 liters of fuel per hour consumption. A real monster.
     
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  7. lol, infact the the people living downstairs in the oil pan were complaining about the noise.. must have had some blowby..
     
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    HAHAHA this is one funny set of posts xD
     
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    They will probably go dual fuel and be using LPG ( which is also cheaper at the moment)
    and our household fuel bill will go up no doubt?
     
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    Of course I did. It was a nice try to spread your companies name not too obvious over the different threads. It failed.

    This is by far the most professional boat related Forum worldwide. Tricky attempts to slip under our bedlinen are recognized pretty soon. We are too long part of the industry to be naive on that.

    Regards
    Richard
     
  12. troy2000
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    Related subject: Tthe original 15 units at the natural gas compressor station where I work are inline 8-cylinder, 2-stroke, fuel-injected engines, with four double-acting compressor cylinders coming off the side at 90 degrees.

    They weigh somewhere over 170,000 pounds (77 metric tons) each; run at 300 RPM max speed; and develop 1760 horsepower. Some of them have forty years of actual run time on them, if you add up the hours.

    Looking at the similarities, I've always assumed they were originally developed from (or along with) marine engines.

    They've taken 7 of the 15 out of service now, and replaced them with a couple of modern monstrosities (Caterpillar engines/Ariel compressors) that are so complicated they break down every time you look cross-eyed at them. But back when the Clarks were all in service, the whole station shook when we were running hard. Pictures rattled on the walls in the office, and the asphalt parking lot vibrated underfoot like the deck of a destroyer at flank speed.

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    Reading the original post it doesnt specify if it was asking;
    Horepower
    Weight
    or
    volume
     
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