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The most powerful diesel engine in the world

Rta96C Crank
We've covered tiny engines, steam engines... here's one of the biggest diesel engines - "The Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C turbocharged two-stroke diesel engine is the most powerful and most efficient prime-mover in the world today... It is available in 6 through 14 cylinder versions, all are inline engines. These engines were designed primarily for very large container ships. Ship owners like a single engine/single propeller design and the new generation of larger container ships needed a bigger engine to propel them... Even at it's most efficient power setting, the big 14 consumes 1,660 gallons of heavy fuel oil per hour." [via] - Link.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Aug 11, 2006 01:10 AM
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so even if that thing is crusing along at an astonishing 60mph thats like... almost 28 Gallons per mile and I thought 16mpg was bad.

Posted by: nitsogar on August 11, 2006 at 2:29 PM

True... then again, not most of us pull as much bulk as one of those babys. Would be interesting to get the weight factored into the mpg number.

Posted by: ildenizen on August 11, 2006 at 3:48 PM

Well a large container ship could carry at least a thousand people or two.

Posted by: lwatcdr on August 11, 2006 at 6:19 PM

Man....How would you turn one of those over to get it started....thats a big engine.

Posted by: TitaniumFrog on August 11, 2006 at 8:41 PM

using another engine

Posted by: Takato on June 13, 2007 at 12:31 PM

Hi im a high school student working on a project for the history of diesel motors any ideas for me to include in my paper?

Posted by: Daniel Dean on January 23, 2008 at 11:44 AM

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