BIG DIESEL - SKOOLS CHECK IT OUT!

[Blue_Runner]

http://people.bath.ac.uk/ccsshb/12cyl/

[C YENSEN]

holy cow, Skools, you think you could fit that in your 21' project?

[charlie_the_tuna]

i think skools could fit his 21 project in IT.

[parishht]

That thing is huge. :o

[parishht]

Maybe they will market that thing here in the U.S.
as the BIG Johnson diesel. :-/

[76GMC1500]

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.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c8/76GMC1500/DSCF0566.jpg

[Skools Out]

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.

[Blue_Runner]

Man BR you made my day after spending half the afternoon trying to buy a new Diesel Ford FX4 350.
I knew you'd get wood off that one bud ;)

[reelapeelin]

When's the outboard version comin' out??...would it make my scuppers too deep??... :D ...

[C YENSEN]

WONDER HOW MANY GALLONS PER HOUR THAT THING BURNS ???

[76GMC1500]

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

[charlie_the_tuna]

who said what to who now?

[TheTinMan]

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!

[Bygracealone]

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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. ;)

[76GMC1500]

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.

[Stinky_Hooker]

Thats about the mileage Im getting in my 18 too. ::)

[TheTinMan]

TinMan, either that was a Navy ship or one of the old SL-7 containerships?


Wow, very good! It was an SL-7! USNS Capella. I made 4 trips to the Persian Gulf during the first Gulf war.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v206/Mnutz/regulus.jpg

[76GMC1500]

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.

[TheTinMan]

You sound like a Port Engineer. ???

[76GMC1500]

Just an engineering cadet right now.

[TheTinMan]

What school? I was a hawsepiper (deckie). Got 3 years sea time in 4 years and sat for my license. Stopped sailing about 4 years ago as Second Mate, have 1600 Ton Capt's also.

I was civilian too. SIU when I was unlicensed and AMO as an officer.

[76GMC1500]

I'm a cadet through the casual/California Maritime Academy. *I did sail on an AMO ship for my cadet cruise, the Great Land. *It seems like I'll be better off on a MEBA ship, though. *If I go union, that is. The MEBA $1.8 million dollar buyout is temptng.