BIG DIESEL - SKOOLS CHECK IT OUT!

Hapag-Lloyd just put an order in for the first of the 14 cylinder RTA96-Flex engines rated at 108,000 hp.

I've got the most powerful American diesel engines ever made in my boat, Enterprise R5-V16's rated at 12,500 hp each and a BMEP of 252 psi.

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i would love to tour that motor on the inside lol just take a walk in the oil journals lol. Man BR you made my day after spending half the afternoon trying to buy a new Diesel Ford FX4 350.
 
It says on the website that it burns fuel at a rate of .278 lbs/hp*hr at maximum power. At 108,920 hp * .278 lbs/hp*hr, the fuel consumption is 30280 lbs/hr. The engine is most likely burning IFO-380 fuel oil which has a specific gravity of .96. If water weighs 8.33 lbs/gallon, IFO-380 weighs .96*8.33 or 8 lbs/gallon. Therefore, 30280 lbs/hr * 1 gallon/8lbs = 3785 gallons/hr
 
I used to work on a ship that at full speed would burn about 4,000 bbls/day! 42 gal. to a barrel = 7,000 gals/hr.!

Oh, that was @ about 32kts. for a 948' ship!
 
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I think Hammer is to MJ what 76 is to Skools ;D

That's some serious language there 76. I'm glad you included the final calculation (3785 gallons/hr). That much I understood. ;)
 
TinMan, either that was a Navy ship or one of the old SL-7 containerships?

Anybody ever hear of the SS United States? It was a cruise ship with what was effectively an aircraft carrier power plant. It was capable of making 268,000 hp. Think of what that plant burned. Also, it's a steam plant and they burn roughly twice the fuel as a similarly powered diesel plant.
 
76GMC1500 said:
TinMan, either that was a Navy ship or one of the old SL-7 containerships?
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Wow, very good! It was an SL-7! USNS Capella. I made 4 trips to the Persian Gulf during the first Gulf war.


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I'm on the civilian side of shipping.  Most of the guys I have worked with have some kind of story about those ships.  I would like to sail on one just to say I did, but also because they're steam plants and I hate diesel plants.  One guy I talked to said he was on one when one blew a gasket on a 10 inch superheated steam line and vented the boiler into the engine room.  They had to evacuate the plant immediately because it became too hot and humid to inhabit.
 
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