747400sp From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 3301 posts, RR: 2 Posted (5 years 8 months 3 weeks 21 hours ago) and read 5532 times:
I notest that most cargo ships has low speed diesel and most passenger ships has medium speed diesel, could a high speed diesel engine be made big enough to power a ship?
UH60FtRucker From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 2, posted (5 years 8 months 3 weeks 7 hours ago) and read 5516 times:
A little leg work on your part, and you could have easily found the answer.
I know wiki is a joke when it comes to credibility, but this sounds fairly accurate:
Quote: The size of the different types of engines is an important factor in selecting what will be installed in a new ship. Slow speed two-stroke engines are much taller, but the area needed, length and width, is smaller than that needed for four-stroke medium speed diesel engines. As space higher up in passenger ships and ferries is at a premium, these ships tend to use multiple medium speed engines resulting in a longer, lower engine room than that needed for two-stroke diesel engines. Multiple engine installations also give more redundancy in the event of mechanical failure of one or more engines and greater efficiency over a wider range of operating conditions.
As modern ships' propellers are at their most efficient at the operating speed of most slow speed diesel engines, ships with these engines do not generally need gearboxes. Usually such propulsion systems consist of either one or two propeller shafts each with its own direct drive engine. Ships propelled by medium or high speed diesel engines may have one or two (sometimes more) propellers, commonly with one or more engines driving each propeller shaft through a gearbox. Where more than one engine is geared to a single shaft, each engine will most likely drive through a clutch, allowing engines not being used to be disconnected from the gearbox while others keep running. This arrangement lets maintenance be carried out while under way, even far from port.
As you can see, the diesel engine of a modern cargo ship is quite large:
Flighty From United States of America, joined Apr 2007, 7508 posts, RR: 2 Reply 3, posted (5 years 8 months 2 weeks 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 5516 times:
Ships have become very efficient. I read that today's super-cargo ships have 1 engine and 1 prop, since it's more streamlined + fuel saving that way. So, they do whatever saves fuel. Look for your answer there.
747400sp From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 3301 posts, RR: 2 Reply 4, posted (5 years 8 months 2 weeks 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 5516 times:
There are some cruise ships have slow speed diesel. For example Royal Caribbean Sovereign Of Sea class and Carnival Holiday class have slow speed diesel. If you ever get a chance to hear these ships in a cruise ship port where they base, you can hear there engine for about a mile, just like a container ship.
L-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29367 posts, RR: 61 Reply 5, posted (5 years 8 months 2 weeks 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 5516 times:
Quoting 747400sp (Thread starter): could a high speed diesel engine be made big enough to power a ship?
Yes, and for proof I turn to the brits, who in their race for a high speed diesel engine, went to Napier who in their sick and twisted engineering minds came up with the Deltec engine as a high speed engine.
What you had in this engine was 6 opposed pistons arranged in a triangle or delta shape, There was a crankshaft at each corner of the triangle and each of those there driven by 2 of the 6 pistons. You could have multiple banks pistons I don't know what the largest one one, but I think 18 cylinder engines where not uncommon. The three crankshafts then drove a single shaft for power.
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If I am not mistaken, the photo you provided is of the world's largest engine (a marine diesel, obviously), built by a company in Korea. I forgot the horsepower figures, but it was some double-digitX1000hp.
Dougloid From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 7, posted (5 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 5516 times:
Quoting L-188 (Reply 5): Yes, and for proof I turn to the brits, who in their race for a high speed diesel engine, went to Napier who in their sick and twisted engineering minds came up with the Deltec engine as a high speed engine.
Napier was in a class by themselves when it came to goofball engineering. However it must be said that the Napier Sabre became a good solid engine after its teething period. I have heard that the Deltic is a good engine when it's running right.
Ya know, this subject is really interesting so let's hijack this thread.
I've just finished reading Clay Blair's two part history of the Uboat war and there were an uncommon number of wartime patrols that got scrubbed because of engine failures in the german boats. Apparently the engines were built by MAN or Germania Werft
In the beginning our fleet subs in the Pacific were equipped with the notoriously unreliable Hooven-Owens-Rentschler diesel engine, a double acting design which was shelved in favor of the Fairbanks Morse opposed piston diesel and the Winton/GM 2 stroke diesel.
I've toured a powerhouse in southern Iowa which has F-M opposed piston diesels, and i understand they're still being made.
L-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29367 posts, RR: 61 Reply 8, posted (5 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 5516 times:
Quoting Dougloid (Reply 7): I've toured a powerhouse in southern Iowa which has F-M opposed piston diesels, and i understand they're still being made.
I believe they are alongside the Alco 251 engine, which was a really common railroad engine back in the 1950's.
Quoting Dougloid (Reply 7): Apparently the engines were built by MAN or Germania Werft
In the beginning our fleet subs in the Pacific were equipped with the notoriously unreliable Hooven-Owens-Rentschler diesel engine, a double acting design which was shelved in favor of the Fairbanks Morse opposed piston diesel
It is amazing how much cleaner a US subs engine room looked compared to a german one. A product of having the crankshaft at the top of the motor of the FM engines.
Still you got to love those mans with the external push rods and rockerarms moving up and down.
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JetMech From Australia, joined Mar 2006, 2589 posts, RR: 53 Reply 9, posted (5 years 8 months 2 weeks 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 5516 times:
Quoting N231YE (Reply 6): forgot the horsepower figures, but it was some double-digitX1000hp.
Well, according to this link, the Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C puts out 108,920hp (81,254 kw) and 5,608,312 ft-lb (7,604,871 Nm) of torque at 102rpm. Furthermore, "the cylinder bore is just under 38" (96.52cm) and the stroke is just over 98" (248.92 cm). Each cylinder displaces 111,143 cubic inches (1820 liters) and produces 7780 horsepower (5,804 kw). Total displacement comes out to 1,556,002 cubic inches (25,480 liters) for the fourteen cylinder version."
Regards, JetMech
[Edited 2007-10-06 04:01:51]
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MCOflyer From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 8558 posts, RR: 14 Reply 10, posted (5 years 8 months 2 weeks 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 5516 times:
Quoting 747400sp (Reply 4): Royal Caribbean Sovereign Of Sea class
Very true. I live by Port Canaveral and can hear them from the restaurant facing the Cruise Terminal.
Dougloid From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 12, posted (5 years 8 months 2 weeks 3 days 17 hours ago) and read 5516 times:
Quoting L-188 (Reply 8): Quoting Dougloid (Reply 7):
I've toured a powerhouse in southern Iowa which has F-M opposed piston diesels, and i understand they're still being made.
I believe they are alongside the Alco 251 engine, which was a really common railroad engine back in the 1950's.
The powerhouse is the Lamoni City Utilities plant and they've got 5 F-M diesels. A lot of city utility plants were built here before electricification got really big in the late thirties. They're often maintained for standby service in the summer and there are a wildly eclectic bunch of engines of all types. The power plant in Greenfield Iowa has a pair of Alco V-12s.
The Winterset City Utilities has a big Cooper-Bessemer and the only operating Nordberg radial diesel in the world.
When I worked in Winterset and it was a hot morning and I saw a plume of dirty black smoke coming from the utility plant I knew that the call had come in from Midwest Energy "Get 'em running and online in 2 hours" and they'd cranked up the Nordberg.
Bhill From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 853 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (5 years 8 months 2 weeks 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 5516 times:
Errr...so what is the use of that huge engine in the picture? Is it installed in a ship or is running a generator set?
747400sp From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 3301 posts, RR: 2 Reply 15, posted (5 years 8 months 2 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 5512 times:
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