10 Biggest Engines In The World

10 Biggest Engines In The World

Some engines are forbidden for no reasons, some engines are so powerful that it's better not to use them at all. But some engines are really large. Today we'll look at biggest engines in the world.

It's not some forbidden technologies, it's just big engines. You won't find them in any car news, because they're placed on boats, heavy machines etc. Over 10000 hp diesel engine - just imagine this power!

[dr_skipwith]

I came here for 10 engines. Not 5. I want my 15 seconds of ad back.

[georgecurtis]

Well, in 68 or 69 my tech school sent us on a field trip. We went to a los angeles power plant. It made methane from waste recycling and used that to power the engines. These engines were massive. 3 stories high ? Part of the cylinders could be unbolted and 3 people could stand on the piston. Rotation was not fast so you could literally follow the piston travel by sound. Was an amazing day to see this. Probably all gone by now.

[rossk]

Missing in the convoluted explanation of rod and cylinder configuration of the Wartsila R96B is the fact that the cylinder is an enclosed bottle with the, round in cross-section, upper portion of the connecting rod passing through a sealing gland at the bottom of the cylinder bottle. When the piston travels upward, it draws combustion air into the portion of cylinder below the piston. When the piston compresses, fires and starts downward on its power stroke, it simultaneously pushes the air below the piston, up into the combustion chamber, expelling exhaust and charging the combustion chamber with combustion air for the next compression stroke. Amazingly, this 2-stroke engine has an efficiency of around 50% which makes it not only the largest reciprocating diesel engine, but also the most efficient.

[johnhenke]

7:25. When my father was young he was out early in the morning delivering news papers in Joplin Missouri. He was near the rail road tracks when a Big Boy came in on the wring track. It rammed another train splitting all the cars to bits and then it plowed in to the ground where it hit a gas pipeline. It was spectacular.

[briansmith]

It's NOT a TRAIN - it's a LOCOMOTIVE!

[knowledgeispowermediaprodu]

Damn, those plane engines are gonna rip the wings off the fuselage and fly away... 😂😂

[remowilliams]

Something is not adding up, according to the Nuclear Industry 1 MW will supply 8000 homes, 8000 X 16 =96000 homes when it turning. I do know that a 2500 MW Nuclear Power Plant can supply power to 20 million homes non-stop for 18 months. I know because I worked at one for 25 years. Wind and solar will never be able to match that.

[raymondlowry]

One small correction-the Big Boy series of locomotives we’re originally intended and primarily used to haul freight over the Wasatch Range of Mountains in Utah, part of the Rocky Mountains.

[nivek]

My neighbour may not have the biggest banger under a bonnet, but it sure is the loudest. 😜

[bricefleckenstein]

6:51
4014 was not a model number, it was a "Big Boy" serial number.
There were SEVERAL of this model locomotive built and operated.

[rainman]

11:11 "generates 67 gigawatts per year". Meaningless statement. Guy doesnt know his stuff. watts is a term of power, not a measurement of energy quantity. Should have said "generates 67 kilowatthours per year

[_LFOD]

UP4014 was in fact converted from coal to oil burner. And currently IS running on Number 5 fuel oil. Essentially heating oil.

[rintin]

At 11:11 "It can produce 16 GW per year". GW is the number of power and not an amount of energy!

[rompiamolalgoritmo]

9:42
Miata owners: yeah this will fit

[redfive]

That wind turbine is neither an engine nor a motor. It's a generator.

[saginaw]

For corn sakes tell us the displacement of these engines !

[twistedyogert]

Fun fact: The Wasp Major was affectionately called "the corn cob". I've seen one in a museum and she certainly is a beautiful machine. Hat's off to the enginers who designed her.

[Omnihil]

In my training as an engenner our final class project was a miniature version of the Pratt & Whitney R4360 "Wasp Major" (not me alone, the whole class worked on it for almost the whole last year). The little beast actually run & made some horsepower - I sadly don't remember how much, it was 20 years ago. It ran on Ethanol with a bit of petrol in it & I remember it sounded like a bag of VERY angry hornets. As I heard it still stands in the engeneering school to this day in exposition. Was a blast to fabricate the cylinders, the tiny valves and the even tinier springs. We even had to make tools to make tools to make some parts :) True story!

[mm]

Fact from the video: “It took time for P&W to develop the R-4360 (1942 to?) and the world moved on in the processes.” NOTE: 1942, the US was in the middle of war & GE had no reciprocating engine in the fight and the government gave the new jet to GE to develop and prevented P&W from using any time/labor to developed a jet in order to manufacture R-2800 engines that our military was using. At the time these aircraft were purchased P&W engines were used. F-15 F-16 SR-71 (world speed record) F-22 F-35 B-52 and many more.

[guyzumpetta]

More loose use of units casts further doubt on the knowledge of whomever wrote this. The kilogram is a unit of mass, not force. The Newton is the metric unit of force.