Supertanker Engine Room Tour
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- A tour of a ship's engine room.
300,000 tonne tanker.
Main Engine: B&W two stroke, large bore, long stroke turbocharged diesel engine.
Bore 800mm, 32,000 shp at 105 rpm.
Fuel consumption approx 110 tonne heavy fuel oil per day at full speed.
Main generators: 3 x 0.75 Megawatt.
i was chief engineer for 24 years at Sun oil company but mostly on steam ships thanks for the invite really makes me cry thx man who ever u are
Good day Sir I am a marine engine cadet looking for ship for internship can you please help me out.
7 cyl heads , but an apparant 8 crankcase doors ? - Is the 8th door the official B&W hidey-hole for contraband ? !!!
I sailed on a 17000dwt general cargo ship with an 8cyl B&W pushrod+rockerarm - a long time ago now. - Nice to hear the sounds again. We had four Ruston 6cyl / 400kW Brush alternator sets.
- - - I wonder if I could get back into it ? !! (the job, not the ship, now scrapped!)
Thanks for posting this - has reminded me of happy times and old friends.
I work in a earthmover tire factory and I am amazed at how well let everything is and how open it is. I am used to machines being stacked side by side and to see things so well spaced would make removal and overhaul much easier.
I have never set foot on that ship but I know every piece of machinery. I was in an engine room as a cadet at 18 to a Chief Engineer going ashore as a Superintendent at 45. I sailed on steam turbines from 7,000 HP to 36,000 HP, diesels - B&W, Doxford, Sulzer and MAN B&W from 5000 HP to 38,000 HP. Then I went ashore for ship management, ship repair and eventual Fleet Manager. As a desk engineer, I still loved gettng my Boiler Suit on and getting down the hole.
This video reminds me of my time at sea when I was The Chief and all that was Mine. I am retired now, but yet I feel a sense of loss not being part of this anymore.
Ditto. Its so massive and fancinating. The sheer scale of these ships is mind boggling.
Left the Merchant Navy in 1987, but this took me back. The sound of the main engine was absolutely just as I remember it, plus the whine of the turbo's. Very good video, which shows just how much there is to look after when you're the senior watchkeeper, and how many things can go wrong when you're duty engineer and UMS.
Astounding, as a retired project manager I can imagine the complexity of building her !
TonyE
Thanks for posting this. Couldn't imagine the preventative maintenance schedule in this engine room. Most oil centrifugal spins at 160 k rpms, one manufacturer called Sharpless.
You know what would be even more exciting?.... Actually seeing moving parts.
+blthetube1 you would have to back a few years for moving parts,. Opposed Piston Jobs. Proper engines with part quite visible going up and down and round and round. A double acting opposed piston job 2 firing spaces per cylinder
search "Doxford opposed piston" :-)
Thanks for putting this video on youtube, i finished as an Engineer on oil and gas tankers in 2000 and it brought it all back to me, i don't know if i feel happy or sad now after seeing this. Certainly the only engine rooms i was in that were as clean as ths one were on the steam powered LNG tankers. Interesting to read comments from non seafaring people on phrases and how things work.
Enjoyed that little tour. I sailed on tankers 30 years ago and they didnt have nice air conditioned control rooms like that. Everything is so clean and tidy too. Mind you I sailed mainly on steam turbine tankers. Anyway brought back memories good and bad. Cheers.
As an ex marine engineer I just loved the quality of this video - I retired from sea donkeys years ago and had no way to explain to people what I did. Now I do! Thanks.
Infinity Mechanical Engineering
That's big when from checking the oil to checking valve lash is an all day hike! Thanks for sharing. Love the 'clunk, clunk, clunk' sound when you're near the cylinders!!
Very impressive tour!, its amazing how much machinery they use in ship these days!, a large factory would have less!
Just awesome!
Very well done video. One of the finest engine room videos I've seen yet. All who make such videos should watch this one to see how it's done properly. A very nice looking engine room too, such nice large open spaces.
Pretty darn cool! My father worked in the engine room of T-2 tanker at the end of WWII - How things have changed!
I would like to echo the sentiments of the many others who appreciated this video, and for the same reasons. Very well done, and thank you.
The first thing they teach new hires who will be working in that engine room is, DON'T FORGET YOUR EAR PLUGS!
+JP JP I think you'll find anyone can forget anything... :/
That's not true
What surprises me most about this is how CLEAN it all is. Talk about ship-shape and good gasket technology. I'll bet a roll of duct tape never came near it. If car engines were built and maintained to this standard, they'd last a million miles easy. I wonder what the total displacement is, or if you can be a marine engineer if you're deaf.
I'm surprised that out of all those mariners nobody replied. I was a marine engineer too. The author wrote that the bore is 800 mm but we don't know the stroke to calculate. I estimate that each cylinder is about 1200 litres maximum, so 1200 x 8=9600L, convert that to inches=585828 CID. Also, the engine room is pretty dirty from lubes and fuels and it is constantly wiped and cleaned and painted by the engine room crews called Wipers. If you want to be a marine engineer you must be able to hear but if you do hear and you are not using ear protection, you will go deaf for sure or at the least you will damage your ears. Engine rooms are extremely noisy and the turbochargers are screaming! Steam turbines scream even more.
Funny, what kills cars isn't usually the engine wearing out but the body rusting out. And the big tankers also, they die from corrosion of the steel plates to the point where they can no longer pass certification. I imagine the engine wearing out isn't the limiting factor. (I'm not a marine engineer/architect...perhaps someone who is can comment if I'm right?)
@@blueherc I found the turbo generators and the turbo feed pumps screaming. The HP and LP turbines were not too bad.
@@janvisser2223 Everything is noisy, all the pumps, all the de Lavals (the centrifugal purifiers) everything! The HP and LP turbines are very annoying when the ship bucks like a bronco and the screws come in and out of the water and their pitch increases and decreases and they sound like the Sirens of Ulysses, they used to drive me crazy. One ship had two, five cylinder each, diesel engines and instead of turbochargers, the sixth cylinders served as compressors. They sounded like hammers beating on your brain! All in all, a ship's engine room is very noisy and ear protection is a must!
@@blueherc
I know, been there, done that as they say. And still doing it, but never had the pleasure of sailing with engine driven scavenge air pumps. When I started as a marine engineer in 78, we had already the Optac earmuffs. Did not like them by the way as these had a terrible fit. ChEng asked us, “can you hear everything what you need to hear “😅
Anyways, I sailed with a Stal Laval AP32 installation in an UMS and that was a very nice plant.
But on RUclips i saw an engineroom tour on a Victory and after that my conclusion was: “such a bloody experience, never again” So, I know what you mean!
This is what RUclips should be used for. What a great video. What an amazing place.
The noise & the heat remember it well happy days !
This water was used in a flash evaporator to produce fresh water under vacuum. The exhaust gas boiler was used to produce general heating at sea. Both WHU circulating and feed pumps were electrically driven. The only steam turbines on this vessel were used for discharge and tank cleaning.
Now I have never sailed on a slow speed diesel ship and the only knowledge I have of slow speed diesels was when I was going through the academy to get my license but the cam shaftruns the fuel injectors and I think the hydraulic pumps for the valves (as well as the direct air injection for starting. The Propeller shaft is connected to the flywheel which is connected to the crankshaft obviously and the camshaft is geared from the crankshaft.
Amazing. Imagine what it takes to design and build something that large and complex.
It must be an extraordinary mind which can keep track of all that.
This is a really nice vid! I work as an engineer on a 126'tdw shuttle tanker myself but just cant get enough of engine room videos! ;)
Steam is generated from the sea water cooling systems for the main engine and the diesel generators. This steam is used for making fresh water, preheating heavy fuel oil for the main engine and, assuming this is a crude carrier, for heating the cargo so that it becomes more fluid and can be pumped easily.
brings back memories. I did a 4 month trip on this particular ship.
Very very well done video. I was just curious about how massive these engines are but never really thought about all the things that need to work besides the engine alone.
Thanks for the vid.
Fantastic video Thanks
That video is just amazing.
If you blew a turbo or dropped a valve or threw a rod that would be catastrophic.
I don't know if you remember the "Glen Strathallan" training ship in London in the sixties with the triple expansion steam engine but what a comparison.
In 1969 I was a Deck Cadet on the Supertanker Naess Sovereign with J & J Denholms and as part of this I did a week in the engine room on the 12 to 4 watch
Enjoyable and interesting but the week was enough for me
Thanks Asphalion, a very nice tour - good camera work!!
Takes me back to my days with Shell tankers!!
( i was a steam man though!!)
Wow, thanks for placing this here! Very interesting to see, what I wouldnt give to tour this in person!!
nice video man, iam an engine cadet and i saw all this staff 3 months ago.. thank u
Clean and well kept. I am used to seeing more stainless steel.
WOW for anyone whos evwr wprked a engineroom rhat was great bravo zulo to the engineers very impressive clean and proffesioal thank you
This engine, like most slow speed diesels (usually around 90-120 rpm full speed) does physically turn the propeller.
Ships that use electric motors for main propulsion usually use a number of smaller, medium speed diesel generators to supply the power which enables them to have standby units in case one of the gensets fails or needs maintenence.
One of those rare outstanding videos! Great job.
Excellent video, nice and clean too, must be great working around those engines.
This ship was built in Korea by Daewoo and would take as little as 7 months to build.
Once the keel is laid and all the frames and foundations are constructed the machinery, which is constructed in the engine shops or imported can be lifted onto the foundations.
Boy this is great I just finished watching your video and I read all the comments I learned so mutch THANKS so mutch.
Nice Engine room, Large, Clean and modern.
Thanks for the tour and upload, very interesting and it's all so complicated and massive
very good video, its for the first time when i see an engine like this and its control room. My curiosity is now satisfied.thanx very much.
nice video, very similar to the ship I work on as First Engineer but just much bigger.
btw I talked with a MAN B&W technician who said he went nearly deaf in both ears the first day he worked on a ship because he stood between the two turbochargers with no hearing protection. Back in the day!
Very beatiful engine room.Big space,good cleanes.
The best video of an engine room I've seen...brought back many memories.Some good, and some not so good !
This was like the interior of the Esso Ulidia: 346 metres, 256,000 tons, 9 cyl 32,000 shp, 1970, Harland & Wolff, Belfast. I went down Belfast Lough on her main deck, for her launch and first sea trial. It was like being on top of a floating mountain. She was only at sea for 13 years before being scrapped in India. I worked on her construction as an apprentice plumber. Now Harland & Wolff is a gentrified shell of its former self, as the former 'biggest shipyard in the world'. Gone are the old government subsidies. When I was there it had 7,500 people working. You can now buy an apartment in the area, known as the Titanic Quarter. Now it's just a bleak, featureless tourist attraction with lots of empty spaces where workshops the size of a football field once thrummed with machinery, enormous welding machines, steam hammers, and men in my Plumbing Shop welding 36" T pieces for the pipes on Ulidia's deck. All gone, with no memorial. Says it all, really.
It brought back fond memories of my days at sea!
Excellent video unblelievable to think thats all inside a ship and the people that thought it all out and put it together. Fantastic thanks to you and youtube its the closest I will ever get to the real thing.
im looking at doing exactly that - im in australia, and planning to study next year at australian maritime college, in a maritime engineering field. reportedly a very well-regarded institution.
Thanks for this. I have nothing to do with the Marine industry but love big ships and am fascinated by them. I had always wanted to see the engine room of a large vessel like this and it's so interesting. I suppose the high pitched whine in the background is the whine of the turbochargers..?? Thanks a lot for a great video. Regards G.Evans
yes, turbo and diesel generators. the main engine is actually quiet since it is a 2-stroke.
You are quite right. The water used in the scrubbing process goes back overboard and carries all the muck with it
But i'm quite actually impressed that you're in tuned with the times, computers, internet and so forth, have a great retirement!
I have often wondered. What it would be like to walk through an engine room on a container ship ? Thank you ! The sound was excellent !
What an amazing energy factory!
A modern ship of this size has a bridge where normal operations are conducted but as you saw, emergency stations that can replace every function of the bridge, steering, communications, ballast, everything.
But, yes, normally the engine speed is controlled by the bridge with engineering fine tuning the operation.
i would love to see something this massive being cold-started.
but i would hate to get lost in there, i would freak out ha.
and that water splash at the end scared the sh*t out of me, i thought water was coming in or that you had fallen into the water lol.
holy shit... amazing !!! it's like playing quake... I watched and listened the entire video... is incredible we can build such complex machines
Funny you should say that but I started my career with Elder Dempster Lines in 1964, who later bought Palm Line. I sailed on many ships to West Africa in the same type of ship you describe.
this vid is great...Give me the feeling to go back at sea!!!!! clean ship!!!
thanx for the video, very interesting, I was engineer on a 85kTons tanker years ago..
@esowaych alot of jobs needed to be done during the 2 hours notice. before starting the engine, we need to turn the turning gear. start the main engine lub oil pump. drain the water in starting air bottle. making sure enough water level in the auxiliary boiler, testing of the steering gear. start jacket water cooling / heating. start 2nd generator and etc etc
Wow, I've got to say it's a really nice video. In fact it reminders me of a turbine ship's "hollow" and spacy engine room. And one thing I really appreciate is the smooth camera work, and time to see everything. Thanks for sharing!
Take care!
Bjorn
An amazing video from a Millwright point of view!!
This is due to the Fuel. Heavy fuel oil will turn to a kind of wax if allowed to go cold, therefore steam is needed to keep the fuel above a certain temp. It is also used for heating different machinery such as purifiers and to preheat the cooling water before the engines is started
Funny you should say that because I started me seagoing career in 1964 with Elder Dempster Line. They later bought Palm Line.
I sailed on many ships to West Africa on the type of ship you describe.
Large, efficient and clean. MUCH bigger than the engine room on a US Navy destroyer I served duty on. Thanks for sharing. Very interesting.
awesome, thanks for taking the time to film and post this
fascinating stuff
Hi.
When I took these videos I was Chief Engineer on this ship. I am now retired.
I started working on ships 44 years ago and retired in 2004.
I am from the U.K.
I see you are from the U.S.A.
If you are interested in a career at sea you could start by contacting the US coastgaurd and see if they can give you any information on how to do it.
Cheers
Outstanding behind the scenes view. Great job!!
Very nice video, I would love to take a tour with you over the atlantic ocean!
thanks for video..remind me those days when I was working on BP super oil Tanker 20 years ago.
Great video! I'm taking a steam boiler class. Most of what I saw on your video I don't know what I'm looking at, but thanks for adding text descriptions. I read my reference book titled Steam Plant Operation 8th edition by Wooddruff & Lammers. Hope I will be prepared to take the Steam Engineer's License for the Los Angeles City exam.
@roythearcher The main engine is a single acting 2 stroke . It has a uniflow scavenging system, one exhaust valve and 2 fuel valves in the cylinder head. The camshaft operates the fuel valves via jerk pumps and also the exhaust valve via hydraulic pumps.Combustion takes place once per stroke.
When I was a Marine Engineer amongst the ships I sailed was the Esso Oxford which was a Steam turbine and no control room!
This ship carries 300,000 tonne of crude oil. It has to discharge this oil in approx 24 hours. As the ship is discharged the space above the oil (ullage) has to be filled with an inert gas to prevent explosins etc (safety). The boiler flue gas provides this inert gas whilst the steam from the boiler drives the turbines. The boilers provide a large volume of flue gas which is discharged into the cargo tanks at approx 5% O2. That's why they use turbines.
correct my friend, only one comment though,
the cooling water outlet from the M/E is about 80C.
MAN also recommends about 82C. 70C outlet
you might see in older engines.
Fascinating, thanks! That's one big engine....
@jgmagoo1 40 tons is the very max capacity of water production if the ship is fitted with 2 fresh water generators, usually they only have one. The FW consumption on a big ship like this is usually between 5 to 10 tons depending of the jobs carried out and the random events that could occur. The FW is used for cleaning, showers, toilets, discharge process of the Fuel and Lube oil purifiers (every 1 or 2 hours) and the consumption of the boilers that can reach 2 or 3 tons per day!
:)
Well done, thumbs up ! Corey is right.
Sounds like an alarm bell is ringing the entire time.
Very impressive, nice and clean!
And the closed door at the end of propeller shaft is a steering room ( i think) You are forget to filming this marvelous of hydraulics place.
BTW lets keep discussions open to anything about everything concerning ships, their machinery and not forgetting experiences. Thanks again to asphalion123 for posting this video.
Awesome video ! thanks for posting it . talk about an engineering marvel .
The ship carried 2 million barrels of crude oil. It is as big as 3 aircraft carriers and you can fit approx 3 football (soccer) pitches on it's main deck. It's max draft was about 28 metres.
These engines run on residual fuel oil. That is the "CRAP" left over when all the other elements are taken from the crude. It has to be heated prior to feeding to the engine to appoximately 135 to 145 degrees centigrade. Viscosity is 300 to 600 centistokes at 15 degrees C,
Kudo's to the engineers for keeping all that massive machinery and the engine room
so immaculate. You could eat off the machinery and the decks of the engine room.
Excuse my ignorance, but I saw some machinery stenciled "Boiler feed pumps".
If that ship is propelled by that massive diesel, why would boilers be needed?
Keeping the fuel warm (it isn't diesel but heavy fuel oil which is not viscose enough at room temperature), heating accommodation in cold climates, heating the cargo (which also is thick as f%&k).
Also, depending on configuration, you might have turbine generators for electricity, steam turbine cargo pumps, steam turbine ballast pumps etc...
Wow, lots of room down there.
Fascinating tour, Thank you very much for sharing!!!
@jbc6 It's 32,000 shp (which means shaft horse power) @105 rpm. By comparison the average automotive horsepower is about 160. It's direct drive strait from the flywheel to shaft. I'm not sure of what ship this is, but it's a "super tanker" which means it's either a VLCC (very large crude carrier) which range in size of 200,000 to 320,000 DWT (dead weight tons). Or an ULCC (ultra large crude carrier) which are 320,000, to 550,000 DWT. "Normal" long range tankers range from 80,000, to 200,000 DWT.
It is a VLCC of 300,000 tonne dwt. BHP/SHP is the power at the shaft. ie. The indicated HP minus all mechanical losses.
really enjoyed the tour......wow, to know what to do when something goes wrong! ? Thank you.
congratulation for this video! this video we help to recognise all equipments
A super interesting video to watch! Thanks for the tour.
Correct. We usually used 300cst fuel and the temperature at the pumps was approximately 135 celcious.
Incredible Power. Many thanks for uploading. For the un-initiated, it could be a bit frightening I'm sure ?
Nice engine room tour! and so many views! I will go now to make the best engine room tour ever!! :) maybe!