Starting The BIGGEST DIESEL ENGINE On Earth | 22.000 hp B&W 2000 COLD START

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[royshashibrock]

One of the best videos on this subject I have seen. Not only do we get to see the engine start and slowly come to a halt after shutdown, but there is even a functional model with one cylinder cut away to reveal the opposing piston design. The video also includes shots of the enormous valves as well a valve along with its valve pocket. Shots of the starting compressor are shown too.

To top it all off, the video quality is very good, and the video is not overly long (time wise). Bravo.

[kdog]

One of those things that can turn most fellas into an awestruck 10 yr old again...Watching a really, really big piece of machinery rumbling and hissing itself into life.

Great stuff!

[dieterk]

I was sailing on MS " Georg Büchner" ex " Charlesville" 50 years ago driven by such an engine, built in 1950. I started my sailors life there and decided for an engeneers career on the spot, when I saw this fascinating engine. But I must admit, that it were tough times sailing in tropical waters with 45°C ER temp and exhaustgas enriched air leaking from the lower exhaust piston stuffing boxes you can see oscillating in the video 😂

[johnmeyers]

Very impressive engine. The start-up didn’t seem too complex—he opened a valve and flipped a switch. Starting my truck in the winter is more difficult.

[henrykoplien]

I attended a demonstration a while ago. Really impressive. This device was used generating current for Copenhagen in former times they said.

[scottbruner]

I’m watching this in my car with some decent speakers, while idling. The sounds, with the gentle vibrations……..I’m in heaven…….

[robgeotim]

B&W. My dad was ChEng in the 30's to 60's. Mostly Sulzer, Stork and MAN. When he ran the I&J workshops in Mossel Bay there were 12 Danish built wooden trawlers and they all had B&W DL diesels. Jurgen Nielsen of B&W South Africa regularly visited from Cape Town, bringing spares and a bottle of Chivas!! Dad said they were great engines to work with.

[iangrimshaw]

I note with great satisfaction how he opened up the 'hot' valve at the beginning fully; then cracked it back a bit so it wouldn't get stuck as the valve heated up. A true engineer worth his overalls. Salut.

[phil]

This looks like a real life scene out of the old movie Metropolis. What an astonishingly large engine.

[millepill]

I signed on the O/O tanker M/S Svealand in 1975. It had a B&W ten cylinder with 40700 BHP.

[MervynPartin]

I've never had the pleasure of working on opposed piston B&W engines, only the Uniflow type with exhaust valves (and valve springs which often broke!). Nice to see this machine is still in working order.

[sayyestonuclearwaste]

The Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C turbocharged two-stroke diesel engine is the world's largest and most powerful production internal combustion engine. It has a maximum output of 84.42 MW (113, 000 hp) of power and a displacement of 1, 820 litres (110, 195 cubic inches), making it larger than a V12 engine.

[martingrey]

All main engines are started the same way; by compressed air being injected through an air start valve on the cylinder heads, which kick the engine over then fuel rack is opened allowing fuel to be injected into the engine.

[calvinbass]

The milage is going to remain terrible until they put wheels on it.

[CBlargh]

It's a peaker plant! It was designed to come online quickly and provide Copenhagen power during peak demand when the steam turbines couldn't keep up. Amazing.

[perrydear]

That is some engineering! So impressive, so smooth..!

[coppertop]

Wow. I was expecting a gorilla to start hurling wooden barrels down those ladders. What a massive system.

[MickeyMouse-ulzs]

I never sailed on a ship with a B&W main engine but several with B&W generators. This looks very like the old C.C.Pounder designed H&W opposed piston engines of the '50s and '60s. Many British shipping companies had ships with these main engines and I sailed on several vessels with either twin 6-cyl or single 8-cylinder installations. Not particularly powerful but could still propel a 1950s built fridge boat to +21 knots when asked.

[derekliddle]

Nice to see an opposed piston engine still running. I sailed with a Doxford 76J6 on a ship built in Sunderland in 1967. All of these engines stopped being made in favour of the single acting B&W or Sulzer designs. Fewer moving parts for a start.

[UncleWally]

Imagine what Allen Millyard could do with this engine?