World's most powerful diesel engine.

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Amazing.

Total engine weight: 2300 tons (The crankshaft alone weighs 300 tons.)
Length: 89 feet
Height: 44 feet
Maximum power: 108,920 hp at 102 rpm
Maximum torque: 5,608,312 lb/ft at 102rpm

Check out the website here http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ccsshb/12cyl/

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I think there is already a thread on this somewhere. It is amazing though.
 
I wonder how long it will be till Bully Dog makes a performance chip for it. :lol:
 
Crazy -- I just bumped into the Wikipedia page about that engine a couple nights ago. :lol:

Anyway, I wonder how they manage to keep the crankshaft from bending and/or snapping under its own weight...it is an inline-14 after all. :crazy:
 
I had never seen pics of giant diesels before. Size of that thing is just ridiculous! :crazy:
 
Ah i see they are for ships shoulda read it before :P

Why not nuclear power? is better in so many ways and anything about it being dangerous is just bs - its only dangerous if the ship crashes or leaks even then it can still be safe hence why they are used.
 
It is absolutely astonishing that we can make something that large that perfect. Though that engine is gargantuan, it still has to have the same machining tolerances as "normal" engines, which means measurements sometimes to the ten-thousandths place, though maybe only within .0003 or .0004 inches. Compare that to it's length of 89 feet!
 
Oh My Friggin God!! Crankshaft alone is 300 tons? WTF? 102,000+ hp
omg. why not the most powerful engine ever?
 
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Oh My Friggin God!! Crankshaft alone is 300 tons? WTF? 102,000+ hp
omg. why not the most powerful engine ever?
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Because of nuclear reactors and LOx.
 
Yes - I was answering the "why not the most powerful engine" part. Quick comparison:

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Maximum power: 108,920 hp at 102 rpm
Maximum torque: 5,608,312 lb/ft at 102rpm
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Russian Typhoon-class nuclear submarine
2x OK-650 pressurised water reactors, 190MW (254,691hp) EACH
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The most powerful piston engine is to be a MAN 2-stroke diesel with 136,000hp (30% more power than the one at the start of this thread). Nuclear reactors dwarf that - and the USS Enterprise has EIGHT of them - and the Saturn V kicked out over 7 million pounds of thrust (no direct conversion, but maaaaaaan, that's a lot of thrust).
 
And the torque could be virtually immeasurable (okay, not really) depending on the electric motor you're running.
 
Wow, that thing is a beast. It would suck to fall into that while it was running. You would be ripped into pieces...
 
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Why not nuclear power? is better in so many ways and anything about it being dangerous is just bs - its only dangerous if the ship crashes or leaks even then it can still be safe hence why they are used.
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Sounds unblievably expensive though. I mean even the Navy use them only in subs and carriers, right?
 
I doubt civilian ships like the one this engine is most likely made for would be allowed to use nuclear power anyway.
 
I think all big ships--cruise ships, oil tankers, cargo ships, military carriers and subs, all that stuff--should have nuclear reactors, just because they're better.
 
Carriers have nuclear reactors? Didn't know that.

Anyway, if every ship had one, it would be major high-risk for terrorist attacks and accidents and etc.

Submarines are perfect for nuclear power, though, because they are almost never detected, and it is almost completely unlikely that its reactor could ever be exploited by some malicious outside organization (terrorists, whatever).

The things run for more than 20 years at a time and stuff, so that's pretty sweet. I think boats should use more solar power, though. They're on the wide open ocean and stuff...there's more than enough sun for at least some kind of gain.
 
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Carriers have nuclear reactors? Didn't know that.

Anyway, if every ship had one, it would be major high-risk for terrorist attacks and accidents and etc.

Submarines are perfect for nuclear power, though, because they are almost never detected, and it is almost completely unlikely that its reactor could ever be exploited by some malicious outside organization (terrorists, whatever).

The things run for more than 20 years at a time and stuff, so that's pretty sweet. I think boats should use more solar power, though. They're on the wide open ocean and stuff...there's more than enough sun for at least some kind of gain.
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"Welcome aboard to USS Enterprise! As you see, the surface of the ship is all covered in solar panels, to produce solar power! I'm sorry, but you cannot walk around because the solar panels are everywhere." :D
 
Star Trek already has klingon forehead power.
 

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