A tour around one of the worlds largest ship engines. This powers a 400 meter long container ship. Please subscribe to my channel, more videos like this will come.
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...
@@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.
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.
@@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!
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!!
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.
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...
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...
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 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'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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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 .
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.
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!👌
Exactly. Over 109,000 horsepower and well over a million pounds of torque. Even though it's a low speed engine the amount of centrifugal force produced is horrifying. Imagine what you could pull if you made a truck that could fit this monster diesel engine in it. Lmao
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.
