World's Biggest Diesel Engine?

[Doc Tinker]

Is this MAN B&W K98MC-C the world's biggest diesel engine?

 

[Sixspeed]

wow

What's it for



Les

 

[Doc Tinker]

I think it sits there looking pretty



Doc

 

[vinceharris]

yes it is a main propultion engine for a freighter ship.



about 300 - 400 rpm's max



vince harris

 

[Doc Tinker]

Running that slow, it's just about sitting there looking pretty My heart doesn't beat that slow



Doc

 

[bighammer]

... but with Piers' GSK it will get to 600 RPM

 

[RottnDogue]

Unless you put in the 6000 lb valve springs then you can rev it up to 800rpm...



Darren

 

[RThompson]

2 cycle, 100 RPM, several really large turbos, may be larger than the Wartisla 14 cly. that I have on my desktop but not by much.

You all will need little larger front springs to support it!



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108920 hp!! little hp race with the big fellows also,,,

 

[Motorhead]

In 1970 I got to go aboard a VW car transport ship. We were taken down to the engine room and shown around. The engine was massive! It had bulkhead doors on the side of it so someone could go inside(engine off of course). They had a spare piston also and it was about 7 feet tall and atleast 4 feet across the top. They start the thing with compressed air and to reverse, they stop it and re-start it in the other direction. The engineer told us that full RPM was 110 revs. After the tour, they gave us some good German beer!!

 

[JTMcCracken]

It's a thing of beauty. JTMcC.

 

[Doc Tinker]

Check out this old timer



Harland & Wolff 4-Stroke Main Propulsion Marine Engine

View of engine on test, 1600 ihp

The extra pushrods are for the fuel and air starting valves

 

[Doc Tinker]

Vickers Main Propulsion Marine Engine

2700bhp at 110rpm, Solid Injection Type

 

[Mr. Brewski]

One of the smaller diesel engines built.



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[Motorhead]

Brewski, How do they start the little guys? What is the handle on the head? Does it run Diesel fuel or alchohol? I have a scale airplane single cyl 4 stroke,complete with valves but a glow plug. The thing that I can't understand about the engine of mine is how the lower end is lubed as the air/fuel mixture doesn't go thru the bottom end and there isn't any crankcase to speak of. Chris

 

[Mr. Brewski]

Ive never had the oppurtunity to start one, but they run on a mixture of ether, alchol [sp?], and lub oil. The handle on the top adjusts the compression, kinda like the timing. And then there is the standard model airplane mixture control. I guess they're really torky compared ot glow engines and they can swing a larger prop.



I've seen the fourstrokes your talking about, although I havent owned one - my last RC motor was a YS Futaba . 45 and it was a screamer. I assume the four strokes have all ball bearings, and their lubed by the blowby from the piston. 4 stroke fuel is formulated a bit differently I think.

 

[LoneRam]

Thanks Doc

Thats a great picture, thanks for sharing. We run Fairbanks-Morse twelve cyl with turbos and blower, 3627bhp @ 900rpm. I will show this one at work, it's massive. I wonder how many CTD's you could park inside it?



LoneRam

 

[David Oxland]

There are probably some large Marine or Stationary Engineers lurking out there who could tell you a bit about these engines.



I'm on a ship running two 4400 HP engines at this moment turning 425 rpm and burning light fuel. Charge air at 17 psi and about 200F.

Bore =450mm

Stoke 550mm



Far more interesting are the crosshead type engines in Doc's picture. Bore just under 1000mm

Stroke sometimes 2000mm



There are some old postings about this stuff if you can find them in a search. Perhaps under "large engines".



David