The biggest diesel engine I know of is a 2300 ton, 14 cylinder, turbocharged 110,000 hp monster in the Emma Maersk class of container ships. It's built in Finland.
Seen that beast here in Felixstowe, she is massive! Sadly now she is (I think!) not even in the top five biggest container ships in the world. The MSC Loreto berthed here a couple of weeks ago and I could see her from our office window (second floor, Cosco Shipping house!) and my jaw hit the floor when I saw her. Huge? The words "she's f*****g enormous!" left my lips a few times.........Dont you just LOVE videos like these...........
The new chef in town is the MAN Diesel with 118000 Hp, who is built for a series of the biggest container ships in the world made in Korea, Ever Ace for example which is 400m in length and 61 m in width and 23 992 Teu.
I worked in a similar plant as a machinist in Ontario Canada in my youth and up to 40 years old. It was the oil crash in the 1980's that closed the plant. Best years of my life were spent there.
@@henrikthomsen1617 I think its pretty small compared to those Wärtsilla monsters. But what they probably meant ist that this here is the largest high speed diesel engine.
German engineering is unreal. What an engine and what a process of building it. This engine is large but I used to work on engines that were larger, in the 1950s, used on drilling rigs, but they weren't diesel.
@@MrMarinus18 The motors I am talking about were on drilling rigs, that had to be moved every three months to every six months; they had to fit on an eight foot wide trailer bed when moving.
Interesting video. Pity there are so many errors of fact in it. The furnace was initially said to be a blast furnace (not) then an induction furnace (yes). The metal was said to be steel, actually its cast iron. The piston diameter is not 720mm (as already pointed out by another). There are many other errors of fact, but the overall message of good engineering still comes across.
I’m just thankful that it’s being built in Germany, a place where the people are highly intelligent and diligent. American industry’s quality and excellence is currently being further eroded by “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.” The ill effects of DEI are soaking into every facet of American society. The low IQ “workers” we import from third world nations are causing more harm than good. For example, dozens more US citizens are killed each year by semi truck drivers in fatal accidents involving the driver’s inability to perform his job safety and responsibility on the road. This rise in deaths is directly related to the increase in imported labor and “DEI” hiring policies in America that overlook more qualified workers simply because the melanin levels of their skin aren’t plentiful enough. Even the errors in this video can be attributed to DEI .. did you notice who they chose to narrate the video? The Marxists are on the rise once again.
Not only factual errors, but the damn text to speech isn’t good enough yet to not drastically detract from the quality of the video. It starts getting very hard to watch when the computer screws up words in ways that people just don’t, it’s very off-putting.
The RTA-96C made by a Finnish company is the largest and most powerful diesel ever produced, is 44 feet tall, 90 feet long, weighs 2300 tons and produces 107,389 horsepower. Though the 8000 series is a workhorse it is a fly on an elephant’s back when compared to the RTA-96
@@SunriseLAW it’s still a diesel engine as the name came from Rudolph diesel, and is classified only by being a compression ignition engine not by the fuel it burns as diesels can literally burn a host of fuels as long as they burn, and can be introduced into the cylinder in a way that the fuel won’t pre ignite. Diesel fuel literally got named such because of the engine not the other way around.
@@SunriseLAW As @johngarlick7115 said, RTA/RT Flex-96C is definitely still a diesel engine from a technical perspective. Purely on the fuel point: ships regularly run on lighter fuels like Marine Gas Oil (MGO)/Marine Diesel Oil (MDO) (i.e. diesel) in emissions control areas such as certain coastal areas, ports, etc.
One of the largest diesel engine was built in Finland (around 110,000 HP) a few years ago. Already in the 70', I was working for Brown Bovery in Baden (CH) on the turbocharger for a 40,000 HP engine. Makes this one look like a dwarf.
@@SunriseLAWit would be worth investigating what is the difference between a diesel engine and diesel oil... you can use rapeseed oil or melted butter or even mustard oil in a diesel engine and it is still a diesel engine.
Wärtsilä Sultzer RTA96C WEIGHS 2300 TONS over 100 THOUSAND HP how is this most powerfull did i miss some... THE CRANKSHADT ALINE WEIGHS 300 TONS MORE THAN THIS THINGS
@@FlorinSutu nah Germans make the biggest and best diesel engines. That’s why the south koreans need to steal german employees from german automakers so as to obtain German engineering and design know-how and most likely to steal trade secrets because that’s what easterners do. They rarely innovate/invent anything on their own throughout history the west has always been responsible for man’s greatest creations; the east is quick to follow suit though, however and oftentimes they find ways to make an illegally copied cheap knock-off (: yea this goes for the Chinese mostly… Koreans seem to have slightly improved imaginative capacity over their neighbors.
@IsaacTui 12 valve cummins or 7.3 international ftw. My 1996 cummins with 300k burns no oil, has 425psi compression in all cylinders, and is turned up and been taking a beating since I bought it with 220k 3 or so years ago
It is a large engine indeed, but nowhere near the largest. Any ship more than 40000 dwt have way bigger and more powerful diesel engines than this one. I worked on a VLCC made in '75, in Japan, 43000 HP, a man would fit and could stand in the cylinder. It took 3 (three) seconds to start it, either ahead or astern. The engine you've shown were the same size as the diesel generators.
Wow! Those German facilities are so clean & modern. This engine would look good in a Fiat Abarth coupe. Not so fast in 1/4 mile but winner in a tractor pull! Amazing what these little ants called humans can do....
I watched a show, may have been History Channel about a container ship with an inline engine so large the crankcase had a walk in door. No ducking or stooping. Cylinder bore, probably could have driven a Yugo through, but definitely a smart car
Three times between 2006 and 2018 I worked for several months across the street from MTU in Friedrichshafen Germany, with Zeppelin. (A different MTU facility from that shown here) The two companies even share a parking garage. Later this year I finally get to go inside MTU for training on a similar 20 cylinder 2.6 megawatt (3,500HP) engine that is the heart of a compressor system we sell to boost the power of Gas turbine generators. Kind of ironic using a reciprocating engine driving a multi-stage intercooled compressor to boost a 100 Mw turbine when the engine itself is turbocharged and intercooled. Nice presentation.
8:54 a piston with diameter of 720mm can’t look like this small in comparison to a lady assembling the engine. By the way will not fit 10 of them in one line of a V20 engine, with two 10 straight on each side, considering the engine is 7m in length. 0.720x10>7.000
this is a good video from an engineering stand point for sure. but not even close to the largest as the title suggests for instance ther is the MAN B&W 12S90ME-C Mark 9.2 rated at 98,000 hp and standing about 4 stories tall
It's nowhere near the biggest engine in the world, the 11 cylinder engines inside container ships are like buildings several stories high and weighing thousands of tons.
"In any system of energy, Control is what consumes energy the most. Time taken in stocking energy to build an energy system, adding to it the time taken in building the system will always be longer than the entire useful lifetime of the system. No energy store holds enough energy to extract an amount of energy equal to the total energy it stores. No system of energy can deliver sum useful energy in excess of the total energy put into constructing it. This universal truth applies to all systems. Energy, like time, flows from past to future".
Actually the MTU 8000 series diesel engine is capable of producing 10,000 kW which is 13,410hp, so the video and the description were off those stated figures by about 3,410hp or 10 2006 dodge ram 5.7 liter Hemi V8s lol
Any way you can not compare engine power without engine rpm. The MTU 8000 series produces the power at 1,150 rpm and the car engine you mentioned at much higher rpm therefore the power values are not comparable at all. Those car engines at 1,150 rpm will have much less power than 340 HP.
If just one engine drinks 2 tons of fuel per hour and 4 consumes 8 tons thats pretty expensive running costs. A single larger engine would be much wiser.
The biggest diesel engine I know of is a 2300 ton, 14 cylinder, turbocharged 110,000 hp monster in the Emma Maersk class of container ships. It's built in Finland.
Seen that beast here in Felixstowe, she is massive! Sadly now she is (I think!) not even in the top five biggest container ships in the world. The MSC Loreto berthed here a couple of weeks ago and I could see her from our office window (second floor, Cosco Shipping house!) and my jaw hit the floor when I saw her. Huge? The words "she's f*****g enormous!" left my lips a few times.........Dont you just LOVE videos like these...........
They mean that most powerful diesel engine who running with 1500 rpm
They mean that most powerful diesel engine who running with 1500 rpm
The new chef in town is the MAN Diesel with 118000 Hp, who is built for a series of the biggest container ships in the world made in Korea, Ever Ace for example which is 400m in length and 61 m in width and 23 992 Teu.
Doesnt matter, thats a single engine not a mass produced unit like this one
I worked in a similar plant as a machinist in Ontario Canada in my youth and up to 40 years old. It was the oil crash in the 1980's that closed the plant. Best years of my life were spent there.
We used to have an economy that produced. Now we rely on laundered money piling into a RE ponzi. So sad
That's a very impressive manufacturing process. Those workers must be proud to produce something so elaborate.
It’s a good job the MTU engineers know about engineering because clearly the narrator or narrative writer know very little.
nor is it anywhere near the biggest diesel engine in the world
@@henrikthomsen1617 I think its pretty small compared to those Wärtsilla monsters. But what they probably meant ist that this here is the largest high speed diesel engine.
ok genius 😂
"This super engine can operate for over 35 years without requiring maintenance." 10:42 Yeah nah
@@petemarfatia8725I laughed when he said that 35 years of use and still running on original oil and other parts 😂
German engineering is unreal. What an engine and what a process of building it. This engine is large but I used to work on engines that were larger, in the 1950s, used on drilling rigs, but they weren't diesel.
Finnsh engineering made largest engine ever built and still in production. THE CRANLSHAFT WEIGHS MULTIPLSE TIME THIS GERMAN LITTLE
Yeah, I wonder why they used piston engines. Most of the time when a massive amount of horsepower is needed they use steam turbine engines.
@@MrMarinus18 The motors I am talking about were on drilling rigs, that had to be moved every three months to every six months; they had to fit on an eight foot wide trailer bed when moving.
@@r.g.crainbow8703Sulzer technology from Switzerland!
@@MrMarinus18and yet, most non-military ships use massive diesel engines.
They are so big they get moved in multiple parts.
Interesting video. Pity there are so many errors of fact in it. The furnace was initially said to be a blast furnace (not) then an induction furnace (yes). The metal was said to be steel, actually its cast iron. The piston diameter is not 720mm (as already pointed out by another). There are many other errors of fact, but the overall message of good engineering still comes across.
Yeah. Terrible. How embarrassing.
I’m just thankful that it’s being built in Germany, a place where the people are highly intelligent and diligent. American industry’s quality and excellence is currently being further eroded by “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.” The ill effects of DEI are soaking into every facet of American society. The low IQ “workers” we import from third world nations are causing more harm than good. For example, dozens more US citizens are killed each year by semi truck drivers in fatal accidents involving the driver’s inability to perform his job safety and responsibility on the road. This rise in deaths is directly related to the increase in imported labor and “DEI” hiring policies in America that overlook more qualified workers simply because the melanin levels of their skin aren’t plentiful enough. Even the errors in this video can be attributed to DEI .. did you notice who they chose to narrate the video? The Marxists are on the rise once again.
@@wjhjr1415lol
Not only factual errors, but the damn text to speech isn’t good enough yet to not drastically detract from the quality of the video. It starts getting very hard to watch when the computer screws up words in ways that people just don’t, it’s very off-putting.
@@jonkaminsky8382,
I doubt your IQ can even comprehend the meaning of your name.
German engineering ingenuity at it’s finest. Really amazing engine
The RTA-96C made by a Finnish company is the largest and most powerful diesel ever produced, is 44 feet tall, 90 feet long, weighs 2300 tons and produces 107,389 horsepower. Though the 8000 series is a workhorse it is a fly on an elephant’s back when compared to the RTA-96
@@SunriseLAW it’s still a diesel engine as the name came from Rudolph diesel, and is classified only by being a compression ignition engine not by the fuel it burns as diesels can literally burn a host of fuels as long as they burn, and can be introduced into the cylinder in a way that the fuel won’t pre ignite. Diesel fuel literally got named such because of the engine not the other way around.
@@SunriseLAW As @johngarlick7115 said, RTA/RT Flex-96C is definitely still a diesel engine from a technical perspective. Purely on the fuel point: ships regularly run on lighter fuels like Marine Gas Oil (MGO)/Marine Diesel Oil (MDO) (i.e. diesel) in emissions control areas such as certain coastal areas, ports, etc.
it’s actually 113,000 hp
Chalk it all up to good ol German propaganda
may be they wanted to say "most powerful high or medium speed diesel"
Had the pleasure of going to the factory for a diesel acceptance test, Awsome place to visit 😊
One of the largest diesel engine was built in Finland (around 110,000 HP) a few years ago. Already in the 70', I was working for Brown Bovery in Baden (CH) on the turbocharger for a 40,000 HP engine. Makes this one look like a dwarf.
Oh how I miss working big back then.
@@SunriseLAWit would be worth investigating what is the difference between a diesel engine and diesel oil... you can use rapeseed oil or melted butter or even mustard oil in a diesel engine and it is still a diesel engine.
That engine doesn't built in finland it's built in korea under licence and supervision of finish company wartsila
I don't know what would the world looked like, if there was no germany! Absolute pioneers of engine manufacturing.
ummm.....well, there are a few answers but overall amazing engineering prowess.....folks-vagon
That is a hell of a process. Great video 🤙🏼
As s retired machinist, I appreciate videos like this.
Wärtsilä Sultzer RTA96C WEIGHS 2300 TONS over 100 THOUSAND HP how is this most powerfull did i miss some... THE CRANKSHADT ALINE WEIGHS 300 TONS MORE THAN THIS THINGS
The way I knew it, world's largest Diesel engine was built in South Korea. So, I was confused by this video's title for a different reason.
@@FlorinSutu It is! By Finnish company
@@FlorinSutu nah Germans make the biggest and best diesel engines. That’s why the south koreans need to steal german employees from german automakers so as to obtain German engineering and design know-how and most likely to steal trade secrets because that’s what easterners do. They rarely innovate/invent anything on their own throughout history the west has always been responsible for man’s greatest creations; the east is quick to follow suit though, however and oftentimes they find ways to make an illegally copied cheap knock-off (: yea this goes for the Chinese mostly… Koreans seem to have slightly improved imaginative capacity over their neighbors.
Actually Wartsila is using Sulzer technology of Switzerland!
Thank you.
Very informative video thanks.
I wish my car could run for 35 years without maintenance lol
Buy a Toyota then
@IsaacTui 12 valve cummins or 7.3 international ftw. My 1996 cummins with 300k burns no oil, has 425psi compression in all cylinders, and is turned up and been taking a beating since I bought it with 220k 3 or so years ago
@@salmonslayer359 Nice man
Get an early 2000 bmw😂
An oil change on this engine takes 7.2 barrels of oil! Great video.
Makes me miss fixing locomotives. Big, dirty and fun to work on.
A well made doco. 😊 Great!
i got so many knowledge about the installation of huge engine.👍💚❤️
Great video!
It is a large engine indeed, but nowhere near the largest. Any ship more than 40000 dwt have way bigger and more powerful diesel engines than this one. I worked on a VLCC made in '75, in Japan, 43000 HP, a man would fit and could stand in the cylinder. It took 3 (three) seconds to start it, either ahead or astern. The engine you've shown were the same size as the diesel generators.
Really neat video... but no where NEAR the largest Diesel engine in the world...
Wow! Those German facilities are so clean & modern.
This engine would look good in a Fiat Abarth coupe. Not so fast in 1/4 mile but winner in a tractor pull! Amazing what these little ants called humans can do....
Hey Nuts??? 35 years without maintenance??? You mean melting it again ???
Crazy number you have... given us
Tbh I kinda liked it without the final paint coating
AWESOME DUDE...
It was so damn beautiful through the whole video, AND THEN THEY PAINTED IT!!!! LOL
Good video.
Thank you.
There is a plethora of diesel engines built that are far bigger than these MTU's.
Your point is well taken, but the engines you are referring to are low speed.
@@JoeKubinec No. I am referring to medium speed engines.
@@JoeKubinec well speed was not in the title so the statement holds.
The best made in germany
Ух, круто!
И по выражениям лиц этих парней видно, что им интересно это делать, хоть и утомляюще.
I am Proud to be a Mechanical Engineer.
Me too as a foundry engineer 🙂
Well done! That's what I should have been. 🍻
Iam verrey interesting io see thes big engine
Thankyou
Diesel engines will outlast the net zero craze
I watched a show, may have been History Channel about a container ship with an inline engine so large the crankcase had a walk in door. No ducking or stooping. Cylinder bore, probably could have driven a Yugo through, but definitely a smart car
Sump holds 1600lrs . Wow did oil change on BBF 6Ltrs cost 50 bucks . Great video great engine
I think that there should be more acknowledgement of the lathe turning processing of many of the casted parts in particular the crank shaft.
Thats impressive a engine that large can do 1200rpm
42 knots 🪢 4 engines 😮AWESOME
Three times between 2006 and 2018 I worked for several months across the street from MTU in Friedrichshafen Germany, with Zeppelin. (A different MTU facility from that shown here)
The two companies even share a parking garage. Later this year I finally get to go inside MTU for training on a similar 20 cylinder 2.6 megawatt (3,500HP) engine that is the heart of a compressor system we sell to boost the power of Gas turbine generators. Kind of ironic using a reciprocating engine driving a multi-stage intercooled compressor to boost a 100 Mw turbine when the engine itself is turbocharged and intercooled. Nice presentation.
amazing experience!
Can you share a link or something to the engine you are talking about? Sounds very interesting
@@Themayseffect, this is our system. czcams.com/video/kfJfYWGPh0g/video.html
Seems like the perfect miata swap
8:54 a piston with diameter of 720mm can’t look like this small in comparison to a lady assembling the engine. By the way will not fit 10 of them in one line of a V20 engine, with two 10 straight on each side, considering the engine is 7m in length. 0.720x10>7.000
Incredible
This is the coolest engine build I’ve ever seen.
Fantastic
Why does he say it is the world's largest diesel engine when it is not even close? This makes me question everything else in the video.
Good show .
I want to see this engine in a Miata!
This engine is bigger than a Miata
Good big technology
16 tons and what do get 🎶 🎵
A giant ass engine 🛥️
Beautiful Engineering
World's largest Diesel engine was built in South Korea.
Quick question; could I just plop this into my RAM 1500? Or do I need some firewall adjustments?
At time stamp 12:53 it is a " wrist pin " which she is installing, it's not a bolt. Cool video though.
Damn, it’s so beautiful before they paint it..
Mankind should eventully find a much easier and more efficient way to generate power. This is an already historic technology.
It looks like there is quite a big crack on the lifting gear, be careful with safety.😅video time at 5:17
Engine blocks are assembled on every continent except ant-artica
He keeps calling it a crankcase. looks like a block to me.
The "Turbo Module" should fit my car right?
Realy I like this factory
Wonderful engineering!
That temperature reading in the video is Celsius not Fahrenheit, steel melts around 2500 degrees Fahrenheit.
The turbos are bigger than most people's bathrooms 😅
Maybach still in business💪
The most powerful diesel engines in the world, power container ships. They weigh 3,200 tons, and develope 100,000 horsepower. There's no contest.
Let’s fit in in an f-350.
New drinking game, take a shot every time you hear mega engine 😜
hahaha, you can also play the game on my another video every time you hear A380
I work on the HSV Alakai catamaran with 4 of these engines
German engineering is phenomenal 😮
Lol!!!! They aren't the only ones making this kind of engines
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Pakastani guys, can make one just as well, with coat hangers, and old bicycles. And when they bend the welding rod, look out! 😂
1.9 TDI cam is no longer camshaft after 80k
Greetings from Lagos Nigeria
this is a good video from an engineering stand point for sure. but not even close to the largest as the title suggests for instance ther is the MAN B&W 12S90ME-C Mark 9.2 rated at 98,000 hp and standing about 4 stories tall
This is a puppy ! Wertzella is the largest in the world
Absolutely Fantastic. Thanks very much
It's nowhere near the biggest engine in the world, the 11 cylinder engines inside container ships are like buildings several stories high and weighing thousands of tons.
Very Good Video. Is MTU owned by Daimler Benz? I have worked on 3000 Hp Cockrill engines.👍
They’re on the stock market. Owned by many many shareholders.
Clickbait. This is only a fraction of the size of the largest diesel engine.
the real question is will this fit in my honda? 😂
Could U power a Nissan pulsar with this ?
Crank case
Is the engine block.
Worlds largest diesel engine, you have got no idea lol
There are marine engines where you can walk around in the crank housing
Incredible engine
needs to go in my dodge ram 1 ton
"In any system of energy, Control is what consumes energy the most.
Time taken in stocking energy to build an energy system, adding to it the time taken in building the system will always be longer than the entire useful lifetime of the system.
No energy store holds enough energy to extract an amount of energy equal to the total energy it stores.
No system of energy can deliver sum useful energy in excess of the total energy put into constructing it.
This universal truth applies to all systems.
Energy, like time, flows from past to future".
Wait til they hear about Wärtsilä
Actually the MTU 8000 series diesel engine is capable of producing 10,000 kW which is 13,410hp, so the video and the description were off those stated figures by about 3,410hp or 10 2006 dodge ram 5.7 liter Hemi V8s lol
Any way you can not compare engine power without engine rpm. The MTU 8000 series produces the power at 1,150 rpm and the car engine you mentioned at much higher rpm therefore the power values are not comparable at all. Those car engines at 1,150 rpm will have much less power than 340 HP.
If just one engine drinks 2 tons of fuel per hour and 4 consumes 8 tons thats pretty expensive running costs. A single larger engine would be much wiser.
Piston diameter 720mm NO WAY!!!
265mm bore
Almost quarter of a metre less than Wärtsilä's piston.
6:31 that is not polishing! That is machining!
What's the price for this engine
Not even close to being the worlds largest diesel.
Will this fit my Honda?
In which country is this
0:10 Most powerful? OK. Fastest? Pretty much any diesel truck is faster than the ship this thing powers.
WTF! YOU MEAN AFTER ALL THAT WE CANT HEAR IT RUN!!!!!!!!!! 😢
How love how they “polish” the engine…..😂😂