FAQ Is there video of the outside? See my time lapse here :) - ruclips.net/video/D77T5x_Wp5c/видео.html No pre lubrication? Yes it was pre lubricated but I didn't film that part (push pre lube button in engine control room) What are the specs of the vessel? This ship is a Bulk Carrier - Its specs are: Length - 291m Beam - 45m Depth - 25.7m Draft - 16.5m DWT - 180,000 tonnes Cargo hold capacity - 199,293 m^3 Engine Maximum continuous rating - 18,660 kW x 91 RPM Is there a gear box for the Main Engine? No, it is direct coupled to the propeller shaft. To achieve revers thrust, the engine is stopped, re-timed and started in the reverse rotation. How many crew on board? 17 personnel in total - 4 x Engineers including the Chief Engineer - 4 deck officers including the Master - 1 x cook - 1 x steward and 7 x integrated ratings. What's with the old wind up phone? This is a sound powered phone - These are located in key areas to allow communication even during times of blackout. Even modern ships still have these. How big are the fuel tanks? Total fuel capacity for Main and Aux Engines + Boiler is roughly 4,333 Cube. (4,333,000 Liters) Not including the marine diesel or low sulfur tanks it has. 4 x Bunker Tanks = 736 m3 + 1,341 m3 + 1,347 m3 + 736 m3 1 x Service Tank = 85 m3 1 x Sett Tank - 88 m3 Why is the wheel loose at 3:10? The axial movement which appears to make the handle look loose is a design feature to allow the operator to use the valve wheel as a hammer when the valve is initially cracked opened. Also used to seat the valve closed. How long does start up take? It takes roughly 1 hour to get the ships plant ready for sea. Is that a 2-stroke engine? The main engine is a 2 stroke while the generators are 4 stroke. Why isn't the process automated? Cost Don't they wash their overalls? Yes, every day. You can go through 3 pairs in a day. Unfortunately heavy fuel oil does stain white overalls and due to minimum manning all the maintenance is shared between 3 engineers. :P
@@BazilRatI'm going to make a vague guess and say it's because in the event of a blackout inside the ship, you could see someone better. Also in the case of the ship sinking, you would have better vision on someone wearing white at both night and day... But it's just a guess.
@@BazilRat I asked this question when I was a cadet. Seemed odd to me that you would wear white in a machinery space. The answer I was told by mentoring engineers and even college lecturers was that white overalls are from the old days when many ships ran on high pressure steam. If a steam leak was to blast your red/blue etc. boiler suit, then the dye in the fabric would result in an instant tattoo. White overalls do not have this effect.
Having been retired after 45 years at sea, last 19 as chief engineer, on tankers of all sizes this bought back so many happy memories. I love the sound of the blower winding up and down. Cheers happy sailing.
the blower gives the engine more power in the cylinders by increasing the pressure and volume of air fed into the cylinders hence more power just like a turbo charger on a car , could go on but it would bore you
Softail77us diesel generators are used to supply electricity to the ship while the main engine is shut down or during a failure, and also to supplement the main engine shaft generator when the engine isn’t turning fast enough to meet the electrical demand. The main engine is started using compressed air from that big reservoir they showed earlier on. If memory serves me (I’m not a ships engineer, just an enthusiast) high pressure air is injected in the cylinders to rotate the engine over. Also I would have thought they’d have a blower for scavenging air (being most are two stroke engines) and they’d have a turbocharger for boosted air under load?
That''s pretty cool. I thought they did have a turbo. One of the youtube videos I saw had one. Do they have another engine ready to fire up in case the existing one locks up or throws a rod etc?
Let’s appreciate the minds of the engineers, mechanics, and machinists who were able to imagine and bring these things to life. Something about this is very magical, like steampunk in a way.
@@Bonzman needs. You design something and it needs another thing to work properly. İ.e you design the combustion engine and it needs cooling so you design cooling system and goes on.
What I’ve learned working with engineers is that it truly is about team work. Each engineer involved in the project works on their specialty. The combined finished product is super impressive.
At last a pretty comprehensive start up procedure video. Yes a few things omitted for simplification but it gives the viewer an insight into what is expected of the engineer on duty. Only those with no engine room experience will give it negative reviews. well done.
Well it is VERY different than a steam propulsion plant engine room startup. Many of the components may be similar, but I would imagine with a full engine room crew that this type could be started very rapidly compared to bringing a reactor up from cold shutdown to critical operation.
The main engine drives the propeller only yanks call them screws. The main engine can also be direct reversing for astern running or if fitted with controlled pitch propellers, will be run continuously with the angle of the blades determining movement for and aft and/or speed. The Generators are for supplying electrical power, can be set up for manual or automatic start plus automatic synchronization.
I've been to mitsubishi, man sulzer engine now a day everything is computerized not like before ! started during 1977 and retired 1991 at the rank of 3rd engineer
The main engine was direct drive to the propellor shaft with variable pitch prop. Three separate 12 cylinder electrical generators. I forget the make but they were British design.
Very clean engine room. The start procedure is quite a bit different from lighting off a steam system (obviously). My experience was with steam systems, so that's why I watched this. The generator panels have also advanced a long way since manual synchronization. Thanks for the post !
Had no idea that it was such an intricate process - wouldn’t even know where to start :) Much respect to all those involved in the shipping industry :) This makes me grateful for my double push key fob. ✌️❤️🇨🇦
This engine is equipped with an automatic starter, by definition. All the checks and startup procedures relate to ensuring all the settings are correct and components undamaged, stop cocks are adjusted, pneumatic test to ensure the engine has not sustained damage, etc. When operating an engine that costs over a million dollars and whose crews lives depend on its function, these checks are cheap to ensure longevity and reliability.
This brought back my memories as Chief Engineer, back 80s to 2000, I worked on B&W, MAN, SULZER, DOXFORD (old, ! and as 3rd & 4th engr), Werkspoor medium speed, Pielstick etc. Thanks for posting, I would be lost with the modern technology now 😊
As a Ex Engineer on large Diesel Motor Ships this brings back a lot of memories, just think when we had a breakdown (not often I must say) what it was like repairing these monsters at Sea.
There's something special about that engine turning on dead slow. Music to the ears. Can actually hear every unit firing. Hectic as it may be, I miss this life.
I love these vids not just because they are cool as hell, but also because the comments are full of folks who think this is just as amazing as I do, not to mention also folks who have first hand experience in these environments. Very enjoyable!
That was great! I used to work with a 4200hp stand-by generator, that prepped power for the forced draft fans and other loads to make steam for 2 DeLaval 12.5 Mw steam turbines. Love big power! Yea, I know, "That's what she said." Thanks for the vid.
Starting in the US Navy and then into the civilian market I was an aircraft mechanic for over thirty years, working on everything from light planes and piston powered helicopters to Airbus 320's and Boeing 747's. In spite of all that I cannot help but look upon this man's job with a certain amount of jealousy and regret. If I were a young man again, looking for a promising and specialized career, I think I would have been a ship's engineer over aviation. Don't ask me to explain. I can't.
Wow, pretty cool stuff! When I go on a Carnival cruise I’d much rather see this than everyone running around all banged up and muscling their way into a buffet. Wish I could see the good stuff! Bummer!
After many years in a 100% steam turbine navy engine room I found this very interesting. While it looked like this one engineer had everything in control we would have 4 running over three levels in both startup or operation. Quite a bit different.
These people are true engineers,it's not just the main engine, the amount of auxiliary equipment, steering,generator, water and fuel,heating ventilation refrigeration the list goes on.
As an old Marine Engineer of 40 years experience this this brought back memories. Just a point - we never did test at anything resembling half ahead - just start in the ahead direction and also in the astern direction.
Very interesting video. I have been a Deck Officer for quite some time and never really imagined how everything works on the Engine Room before sailing and realized why Chief Engineer always insisted to take it easy with the Telegraph. 😅😅 Good job mate! 👌👌
It is much more easier to get an aircraft from cold to engine start-up to takeoff to be airborne towards the touchdown to the cut off of the engines and switching on the APU until the cutoff of the APU for the stopover on the airport as to start-up a big ocean liner or any other big ship today and I have my highest level of respect for these people who are doing it! Thank you so much for sharing this very interesting and fascinating video here which I had watched it during my resting time in the resting compartment of my Boeing 747-8F flying westbound in an altitude of about 40.000ft above ground towards my destination! Have a nice time and lovely greetings from Captain Sarah Sutter (Boeing 747-400F/Boeing747-8F)
It could be any size. Have you seen the actual helm wheel on some of most enormous ships? It's like the designers thought it would be a good joke to make things arse up, and the bigger the ship, the smaller the wheel. They really look ridiculous on some.
Heisenbergdl. Agreed on that. There's a whole procedure to be followed. In the end though, there is just one button to press to actually start it spinning. I'm guessing there's probably a lot of procedure that has to be followed after that too before things are ready to get motoring along.
Thank you! My dad and grandad were both stokers. I don't think my grandfather ever got his ticket in diesel but when dad moved to the USA he got his ticket in diesel.
This brings back a lot of memories for me from my time at sea. In my day there was no air conditioned sound proofed control room, but the rest of it looks familiar. I used to like the Doxford engines, you could actually see those working.
The air condition in the control room is not for the crew, but for the computers there. Was 2nd engineer on reefers with 3 computer systems. Geamar, geamot and geareg - around 1980 to 1982 ....
Yes the old Doxfords, LB and P type were something else, especially starting them, you needed to be an octopus, more so going through the locks at Panama. Those were the days my friends.
Well u need the 2nd generator when leaving port to power not only the compressors but also the electric blowers for the main engine nd all auxilliaries...hydraulic powerpacks for winches nd anchors..main sea water pumps..2 steering motors nd others
Wow this takes me back a few years (nearly 40 tbh). My first trip as a cadet was on an old Shell 'A' boat with a Doxford opposed piston engine. Two pistons in one cylinder, how crazy does that sound. We had a scavenge fire coming out of the Suez into the Red Sea. Happy days.
Hats off to the fine men that spend their time in such a working place and keep their ships sailing to deliver us our consumer goods. My Toyota starts at a touch of a button and was delivered to me from Japan after firing up a ship a like that..
I worked many years on a river cruiser in Russia as watch and chief officer. We are always made visits to the Bridge and to the Engine for our passengers. There are no any secrets, except if that vessel was not in perfect condition.
You used to be able to get a pretty good ship technical tour before 911, then they limited them a lot. From what I understand they are back to giving some sort of tours, but perhaps not nearly as complete as they used to be. Back then we got to see darned near everything
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This entire process makes preparing a ship with canvas sails a whole lot easier to handle. The only positive observation is how clean the engines and the surrounding areas are kept. This ship and its labour intense engine testing and starting routines are incredibly manual procedures. The real convincing item is when a crew member picks up a phone and then hand cranks it to get a connection. The old American Indian smoke signals seem so much more modern and an easier way to communicate ! By now it is presumed this ship is sitting somewhere waiting for the scrapper's torches.
The hand-cranking is a safety feature. If there's a failure of the electrical supply for the main telephone system, the old-fashioned hand-cranked ones are self-powered and on a separate circuit, enabling vital areas of the ship to still communicate with each other. Basically every vital piece of machinery on a ship, other than the main engine itself, has at least one redundant back-up unit.
Work? Way more than the obvious. How would you like to be underway and underneath the deck plates, next to running machinery, with boxes of paper towels, swabbing the bilges of any oil and water and putting the trash in plastic bags for proper disposal. That's what you do when your oily water separator doesn't work.
Chief mate reporting! I've been in container ships smaller than this (feeder ships) but the process is basically the same. Interesting that in this ship it's the engine that tests the rudder. Every vessel I've been on it's the bridge that turns on the pumps and puts the rudder to max angles before departure.
My understanding is that it is a requirement for engineers to test power failure, alarms and local control at least 12 hours prior to departure as per SOLAS. After testing in the steering flat is complete, test emergency phone and switch pumps to remote for bridge to carry out their tests.
@@samreyy Well Feeders don't stay long enough in Port for that. I used to sail on larger Container Vessels, a Nd even there, staying in Port for 8 + Hours was rare.
This is not just Main Engine Start up procedure. This is ship's engine room getting ready for departure from port or sea. All additional auxiliary systems are started, checked and brought online before Main Engine is given a kick start. These are some of the checks as per pre-departure checklist, which is a requirement for every ship.
one of my life goals is when I get my own place, I want to get a scrapped one of these huge instrument/light/button master panels and clean it up and use it as an active wall decoration.
The question about the dirty overalls; this shows me that this man is doing his job. a person with clean overalls is not doing his job in my book (worked engine rooms in the navy for around nine years. the only time my works was clean was she i went to the engine room in the morning). thanks for a very outstanding video (worked steam and gas turbines; never worked on a diesel power plant)
I can remember being part of a 3 man engine commissioning team from MAN Diesel on a sea trail with one of these prime movers, including cylinder pressure testing when running and being right next to two metre high trail of sparks, and standing next to the turbo (about 2 metre diameter and 10000 rpm) during a deliberate stall - it felt like a bomb going off. All sounds fun but we were working 21 hours a day over a long weekend and the engine builders fitted fuel valves incorrectly that meant we had to shut the engine down - resulting in a 220 metre long container ship being a drift in the North Sea near Hamburg without main propulsion for several hours while we worked out why the engine was not getting fuel.
We discovered one valve (not the injector) not fitted properly - we also found a large piece of weld material inside the valve. We stopped the engine at sea to replace the valve. The engine was built in Spain and was fitted to a ship in Germany a year after standing in a port - the engine was originally completed for another customer. Maybe (just a guess) the engine was tampered with when standing around in the port for a year.
I really, really dislike this new practice of putting other links with photos up on the screen before the video is finished. It sucks shit. YOU LISTENING, GOOGLE? Nah . They don't give a shit. Great vid up to that point, though.
I also really wonder how does the cooling work? There must be some cooling pipes always running through that room or something with all these heavy and heat producing machines.
Simply speaking, raw water or sea water comes in through the ships hull or exterior, and cools the engines 'jacket water' through a heat exchanger. Many of the simple heat exchangers are composed of a large reservoir, with piping running through it, and both the raw water and jacket water in its own contained system (The two liquids do not mix, only exchange temperatures). The raw water comes in through piping and leads throughout the reservoir, cooling the jacket water surrounding the pipes. This jacket water than leads to various spaces cooling various machinery and components of the engine. Most importantly it cools the piston liners which receive the most wear and tear of any part of the engine, and the lube oil cooler which is necessary for engine lubrication. This jacket water picks up heat, and flows back to the heat exchanger where it is again cooled by the incoming raw water.
Addendum to Slip Slap's reply: For energy efficiency, as much of the engine's waste heat as possible is recaptured. The hot jacket water is also used to run the fresh water generator (a high capacity seawater distilling machine) whilst at sea, and there's a big auxiliary boiler up in the funnel that uses the engine's exhaust to generate steam for ship-wide heating of fuel tanks, living spaces, machinery that needs to be kept hot, etc.
Cool with all the systems and subsystems that are involved with running on those engines. Kind of like a Mainframe, where you have a lot of different components all doing a different part of the job which makes them reliable.
Good video. The way you handle the start air and turning gear is 100% the safest way to do it. Most air reservoir valves will leak by some, so leaving the start air manifold drain open in port is the safest option. Additionally not opening the air reservoirs until the turning gear is out is also correct. Many people dont realize that all it takes is one little limit switch failure and main engine will start with the turning gear in. The turning gear teeth are forged steel while the flywheel of the main engine is cast iron. Its pretty nasty when it happens.
How many marine engineer watching here and like sound on engines . Hit like . World would almost freeze without sailors. Happy sailing and calm seas . Cheers to sailors and my fellow man specially marine engineers🌊🌊
He's not that good of a mechanic. Some of his video is a big no no. Some of his repairs are sketchy, some will break other things later on. It's a good channel to get an idea how to repoair stuff, but not to be followed for actual repair.
MR. Mitch65 The old stuff is much, much better for this type of work. Updates to OS since the late 90's have almost purely been added user functionality and cosmetic. For bare bones work where you would be deleting all of that unnecessary shit anyway 98 and XP are king. There is a reason XP support was not discontinued until very recently.
In Windows 98 you ran in to bluescreens multiple times a week. In NT based (win XP, 7, etc.) This rarely happens. Simply because 98 contains a lot of bad (and dangerous) design which makes it fragile. For example why you could enter kernel mode from Userland? I mean that's just asking for trouble.... If you want something super reliable try a micro kernel based OS like QNX. There is no good reason to run 98 on embedded systems. Usually 98 is chosen for embedded because it is super simple (because you can do anything, 98 is a not going to stop you). The people programming it are often not software developers but for example electrical engineers who have less experience with writing secure, reliable and maintainable code.
One has to remember that the automation system that the ship is built with tends to use the programs available when the ship was designed. This means that until the entire control system is reprogrammed - usually entailing replacement of the computer mainframes, you get to run what is installed. Within the last 5 years I have run large vessels still operating windows 95 based software.
ship is ready for the next port of call, what a beautiful sound when the engine were start to blow then the continues cranking and the humming of the auxiliary...a nice musical instrument for us in engine department....
That's really neat. I'm surprised the valves and such is not all automated though so that you pretty much just push a button and it does the standard startup sequence with various checks in between. So you would just need to sit and wait while it runs through everything.
I remember my first embarkation on a tanker ship, the engine room seems pretty similar, even the alarm sound is same. The amazing thing is, when the order is given usually from the bridge, the whole ship trembles like it's gonna tear apart from that massive engine producing 25000 SHP. BTW those who are wondering there isn't an actual button to start it up, rather there is a button that allows fuel to be ignited in the combustion chamber. Without the fuel pump to boost the fuel and the sparks to ignite it and turn the cylinders, no power from the main engine. It's a whole network down there, that even gave my Second Engineer a run for his money. Well remembering all of that made me feel kinda strange....
Great video...something I have not seen before. I was surprised by how much room and space there is in the engine room, it's like a small power plant, which it is. I am a mechanical engineer, but never been around this type of engine machinery before - so very interesting. I was under the impression that the modern cruise ships now use electric propulsion systems, driven by diesel gen sets. Will the newer cargo ships also go this way?
Awwesome vid. Thought it was a little paltry till 6:15. Those towers n copper pipes arnt pistons n air headers. Their injectors n fuel lines. The pistons are under those! What a beast of a donk! Correct me if my topology is wrong, but yep. Epic engine. Also, respect for the crisp white jumpsuit with the oily arse handwipe zone. Im pretty sure god gave engineers arses to wipe their greasy hands on.
The amazing thing is that fifty bazillion HP MAN engine sits there and does nothing that you can see while propelling a ship through the ocean. Because ENGINEERING.
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FAQ
Is there video of the outside? See my time lapse here :) -
ruclips.net/video/D77T5x_Wp5c/видео.html
No pre lubrication? Yes it was pre lubricated but I didn't film that part (push pre lube button in engine control room)
What are the specs of the vessel?
This ship is a Bulk Carrier - Its specs are: Length - 291m Beam - 45m Depth - 25.7m Draft - 16.5m DWT - 180,000 tonnes Cargo hold capacity - 199,293 m^3 Engine Maximum continuous rating - 18,660 kW x 91 RPM
Is there a gear box for the Main Engine?
No, it is direct coupled to the propeller shaft. To achieve revers thrust, the engine is stopped, re-timed and started in the reverse rotation.
How many crew on board?
17 personnel in total - 4 x Engineers including the Chief Engineer - 4 deck officers including the Master - 1 x cook - 1 x steward and 7 x integrated ratings.
What's with the old wind up phone? This is a sound powered phone - These are located in key areas to allow communication even during times of blackout. Even modern ships still have these.
How big are the fuel tanks? Total fuel capacity for Main and Aux Engines + Boiler is roughly 4,333 Cube. (4,333,000 Liters) Not including the marine diesel or low sulfur tanks it has.
4 x Bunker Tanks = 736 m3 + 1,341 m3 + 1,347 m3 + 736 m3
1 x Service Tank = 85 m3
1 x Sett Tank - 88 m3
Why is the wheel loose at 3:10?
The axial movement which appears to make the handle look loose is a design feature to allow the operator to use the valve wheel as a hammer when the valve is initially cracked opened. Also used to seat the valve closed.
How long does start up take?
It takes roughly 1 hour to get the ships plant ready for sea.
Is that a 2-stroke engine?
The main engine is a 2 stroke while the generators are 4 stroke.
Why isn't the process automated? Cost
Don't they wash their overalls? Yes, every day. You can go through 3 pairs in a day. Unfortunately heavy fuel oil does stain white overalls and due to minimum manning all the maintenance is shared between 3 engineers.
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Why are the overalls white? It seem to be the worst colour for a place like that.
@D.O.A.. Yes too. It's awesome.
@@BazilRatI'm going to make a vague guess and say it's because in the event of a blackout inside the ship, you could see someone better.
Also in the case of the ship sinking, you would have better vision on someone wearing white at both night and day... But it's just a guess.
@@alanwatts8239 logical, makes sense to me!
@@BazilRat I asked this question when I was a cadet. Seemed odd to me that you would wear white in a machinery space.
The answer I was told by mentoring engineers and even college lecturers was that white overalls are from the old days when many ships ran on high pressure steam.
If a steam leak was to blast your red/blue etc. boiler suit, then the dye in the fabric would result in an instant tattoo. White overalls do not have this effect.
Having been retired after 45 years at sea, last 19 as chief engineer, on tankers of all sizes this bought back so many happy memories. I love the sound of the blower winding up and down. Cheers happy sailing.
What does the blower do? Pump air into the cylinders to get revolutions?
the blower gives the engine more power in the cylinders by increasing the pressure and volume of air fed into the cylinders hence more power just like a turbo charger on a car , could go on but it would bore you
Thanks, not boring. I couldn't tell by the video how it is started. Electric motors? Is that what the diesel generators are for?
Softail77us diesel generators are used to supply electricity to the ship while the main engine is shut down or during a failure, and also to supplement the main engine shaft generator when the engine isn’t turning fast enough to meet the electrical demand.
The main engine is started using compressed air from that big reservoir they showed earlier on. If memory serves me (I’m not a ships engineer, just an enthusiast) high pressure air is injected in the cylinders to rotate the engine over.
Also I would have thought they’d have a blower for scavenging air (being most are two stroke engines) and they’d have a turbocharger for boosted air under load?
That''s pretty cool. I thought they did have a turbo. One of the youtube videos I saw had one.
Do they have another engine ready to fire up in case the existing one locks up or throws a rod etc?
Thank you for letting us hear it. And not some annoying music
watch another vid on my channel
I agree!
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For real
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Let’s appreciate the minds of the engineers, mechanics, and machinists who were able to imagine and bring these things to life. Something about this is very magical, like steampunk in a way.
Having been on a few ships I often wonder how the hell do you start to design everything.
@@Bonzman needs. You design something and it needs another thing to work properly. İ.e you design the combustion engine and it needs cooling so you design cooling system and goes on.
@@atakan888 Interesting
What I’ve learned working with engineers is that it truly is about team work. Each engineer involved in the project works on their specialty. The combined finished product is super impressive.
Steampunk are you kidding me
The complexity of these systems and the ability of man to design, build and make it all perfectly functional never ceases to amaze…
Everything that you see, and everything that you touch was first in someones mind. That's why anything is possible.
It's so nice to actually hear all the sounds! No annoying music!
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At last a pretty comprehensive start up procedure video. Yes a few things omitted for simplification but it gives the viewer an insight into what is expected of the engineer on duty. Only those with no engine room experience will give it negative reviews. well done.
+Stephen Carrahar Thanks for your comment Stephen, much appreciated :)
Well it is VERY different than a steam propulsion plant engine room startup. Many of the components may be similar, but I would imagine with a full engine room crew that this type could be started very rapidly compared to bringing a reactor up from cold shutdown to critical operation.
Stephen Carrahar I’ve extra-no engine room experience and I am super impressed with the whole thing.These guys have to know what’s what.
The main engine drives the propeller only yanks call them screws. The main engine can also be direct reversing for astern running or if fitted with controlled pitch propellers, will be run continuously with the angle of the blades determining movement for and aft and/or speed. The Generators are for supplying electrical power, can be set up for manual or automatic start plus automatic synchronization.
was quite confused the generators were run later, on practice they usually come first for the electric pump start ups
The last ship I sailed on as an engineer had a Sulzer engine very similar to this. I went through this procedure many many times. Good memories!
I've been to mitsubishi, man sulzer engine now a day everything is computerized not like before ! started during 1977 and retired 1991 at the rank of 3rd engineer
The main engine was direct drive to the propellor shaft with variable pitch prop. Three separate 12 cylinder electrical generators. I forget the make but they were British design.
Worked for Sulzer in Winterthur. Saw this big diesel engines on the test stand in the 80s
Me too on MV Northern Shell 9 cyc B and W 112 rpm wound out!
You guys keep the engine room good and clean. No mess around the auxiliary engines.
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A lovely symphony of mechanical, pneumatic and electrical sounds!!
... and the smell of diesel ...
Very clean engine room. The start procedure is quite a bit different from lighting off a steam system (obviously). My experience was with steam systems, so that's why I watched this. The generator panels have also advanced a long way since manual synchronization. Thanks for the post !
The engine room is very clean, spacious and well lit. MAN / MAK engines are some of the best around, very reliable.
I've been waiting for Doug Demuro to go over the "quirks and features".
Twenty20 Entertainment, Ltd. that would be the longest video ever lmao
Would love to see the Doug score lol
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Don't forget reading the owners manual
Had no idea that it was such an intricate process - wouldn’t even know where to start :) Much respect to all those involved in the shipping industry :)
This makes me grateful for my double push key fob. ✌️❤️🇨🇦
This engine is equipped with an automatic starter, by definition. All the checks and startup procedures relate to ensuring all the settings are correct and components undamaged, stop cocks are adjusted, pneumatic test to ensure the engine has not sustained damage, etc. When operating an engine that costs over a million dollars and whose crews lives depend on its function, these checks are cheap to ensure longevity and reliability.
It makes me thankful for my 1973 pull start Evinrude LMAO!
This brought back my memories as Chief Engineer, back 80s to 2000, I worked on B&W, MAN, SULZER, DOXFORD (old, ! and as 3rd & 4th engr), Werkspoor medium speed, Pielstick etc. Thanks for posting, I would be lost with the modern technology now 😊
I knew there was a reason I couldn’t sleep and got out of bed at 315...it was time to learn to start a ship!
Ya me too, but the nearest port is around 350km from my place 😂.
Same here
Fate is calling...
As a Ex Engineer on large Diesel Motor Ships this brings back a lot of memories, just think when we had a breakdown (not often I must say) what it was like repairing these monsters at Sea.
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I didn't know people had to do so much work to bring the cellphone i ordered from China.
Bravo .All Those Who Do This .,👍
And your shoes and rake.
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There's something special about that engine turning on dead slow. Music to the ears. Can actually hear every unit firing. Hectic as it may be, I miss this life.
I love these vids not just because they are cool as hell, but also because the comments are full of folks who think this is just as amazing as I do, not to mention also folks who have first hand experience in these environments. Very enjoyable!
That was great! I used to work with a 4200hp stand-by generator, that prepped power for the forced draft fans and other loads to make steam for 2 DeLaval 12.5 Mw steam turbines.
Love big power!
Yea, I know, "That's what she said."
Thanks for the vid.
I'm giving it all she's got, captain!!!!
You would kill the engine by doing that doogie
Oh no she can't take it captain.
Captain! She's gonna blow. Let em blow dammit
I know this ship like the back of my hand.......scotty?...SCOTTY?
Haha..off I go to find an episode to watch..
Imagine if you had to do this every day to start your car to go to work. lol
I'd call that - " A DAY'S WORK"
Shipem engine workinj
You don't ?!?
You could get a steam powered car!
You've obviously never seen my car!
Starting in the US Navy and then into the civilian market I was an aircraft mechanic for over thirty years, working on everything from light planes and piston powered helicopters to Airbus 320's and Boeing 747's. In spite of all that I cannot help but look upon this man's job with a certain amount of jealousy and regret. If I were a young man again, looking for a promising and specialized career, I think I would have been a ship's engineer over aviation. Don't ask me to explain. I can't.
u wouldnt like the searing heat inside the engine room especially in hot climate countries
bruh. looks cool, but the heat will kill yah
I love the smell of a big diesel engine in full roar. That's the smell of POWER!
Wow, pretty cool stuff! When I go on a Carnival cruise I’d much rather see this than everyone running around all banged up and muscling their way into a buffet. Wish I could see the good stuff! Bummer!
Very impressive. Thank you, sir. I was also impressed at how clean everything was.
Just think of the brainpower that went into designing all that and making it work. Very impressive.
After many years in a 100% steam turbine navy engine room I found this very interesting. While it looked like this one engineer had everything in control we would have 4 running over three levels in both startup or operation. Quite a bit different.
Oh...it has started...no wait that STARTS the main engine? Big boy engineer fun this!!
These people are true engineers,it's not just the main engine, the amount of auxiliary equipment, steering,generator, water and fuel,heating ventilation refrigeration the list goes on.
Remember folks: without such engines none of you would be able to watch this video on your cool smartphone!
I actually bought it directly from China. But how did I get to China? TAN TAN
I mean..... planes exist too.....
Wrong,, really? You think so?
@@ussindianapolis9137 Both the planes and the goods they carry are made from raw materials transported by sea
Also air freight is not profitable
We would. Do you think boats were invented after creating the engine for it?
*CAN I SWAP THIS INTO MY CIVIC?*
GermanGameAdviser lol
Yeah, but why would you? There's no VTEC
I have a Canadian EX civic and it came stock with this. Sucks for u america!! Lol
hahaha u win
GermanGameAdviser jdm made the o-rings for this, thats about there final contribution
As an old Marine Engineer of 40 years experience this this brought back memories. Just a point - we never did test at anything resembling half ahead - just start in the ahead direction and also in the astern direction.
These grandparents are from the foundations of real technology, not the virtual world..the giants of hard work and original technology
I bet that guy makes a crap ton of money. The ONE guy on the ship you literally can't do without....
Very interesting video. I have been a Deck Officer for quite some time and never really imagined how everything works on the Engine Room before sailing and realized why Chief Engineer always insisted to take it easy with the Telegraph. 😅😅 Good job mate! 👌👌
No treadmills full of giant-sized hamsters, Mate?
If you're a Bona Fide Deck Officer you'd have done some time in the engine room as part of your certification
I had an 83 Dodge with a 318 that was almost this complicated to get running.
That was my first truck
Just park on a hill.
Unless it rained and then it was a real peckerhead!!
this is nothing compared to steamers in terms of getting them running
Haha
I approve of any engine large enough to require stairs to access the cylinder heads.
This didn't bring back any memories for me but I throughly enjoyed it non the less.
It is much more easier to get an aircraft from cold to engine start-up to takeoff to be airborne towards the touchdown to the cut off of the engines and switching on the APU until the cutoff of the APU for the stopover on the airport as to start-up a big ocean liner or any other big ship today and I have my highest level of respect for these people who are doing it! Thank you so much for sharing this very interesting and fascinating video here which I had watched it during my resting time in the resting compartment of my Boeing 747-8F flying westbound in an altitude of about 40.000ft above ground towards my destination! Have a nice time and lovely greetings from Captain Sarah Sutter (Boeing 747-400F/Boeing747-8F)
Thanks Captain, safe flight 👍✈️
Wonder how big the start button is
It could be any size. Have you seen the actual helm wheel on some of most enormous ships? It's like the designers thought it would be a good joke to make things arse up, and the bigger the ship, the smaller the wheel. They really look ridiculous on some.
5 foot diameter
That's one bloody big button there counterfit5. How big does your thumb has to be to press it lol.
Its far from 1 button is my assumption
Heisenbergdl. Agreed on that. There's a whole procedure to be followed. In the end though, there is just one button to press to actually start it spinning. I'm guessing there's probably a lot of procedure that has to be followed after that too before things are ready to get motoring along.
I served in the US Navy and worked in an engine room with 2 D type boilers. Those diesel engines and the cleaner engine room are impressive!!
Hun"..what time we leaving?
Me...tomorrow morning
Hun..where you going?
Me..to start the ship don't wanna be late.
Something about a technician's dirty uniform is weirdly comforting. Like I know they are experts at what they do.
Thank you! My dad and grandad were both stokers. I don't think my grandfather ever got his ticket in diesel but when dad moved to the USA he got his ticket in diesel.
This brings back a lot of memories for me from my time at sea. In my day there was no air conditioned sound proofed control room, but the rest of it looks familiar. I used to like the Doxford engines, you could actually see those working.
The air condition in the control room is not for the crew, but for the computers there. Was 2nd engineer on reefers with 3 computer systems. Geamar, geamot and geareg - around 1980 to 1982 ....
Doxford engines....respect
I got into computers because i saw that, even in the Navy, THEIR areas always had good A/C!
Gotaverken, Fiat , Stork , Sulzer SD and RDs
Yes the old Doxfords, LB and P type were something else, especially starting them, you needed to be an octopus, more so going through the locks at Panama.
Those were the days my friends.
Highly skilled engineers and staff ! When I went on cruise ship had no idea about this !
Sooo.
You need to start the engine, to provide the power to start the engine, that provides the compressed air to start the engine?
You need to start a generator to power an electric compressor to compress the air to start the main engine.
Well u need the 2nd generator when leaving port to power not only the compressors but also the electric blowers for the main engine nd all auxilliaries...hydraulic powerpacks for winches nd anchors..main sea water pumps..2 steering motors nd others
Marvin Kitfox like a Prius
lol Geo
Yea, even in a large tractor its called a pony
It never fails to impress me how much thought and effort must’ve been involved in order to create these complicated behemoths of machinery.
This brings back many memories, I can even even get that engine room smell
Wow this takes me back a few years (nearly 40 tbh). My first trip as a cadet was on an old Shell 'A' boat with a Doxford opposed piston engine. Two pistons in one cylinder, how crazy does that sound. We had a scavenge fire coming out of the Suez into the Red Sea.
Happy days.
William Grady. That sounds awesome man! Thanks.Be well.
Best engine room startup preparation video ever. Thanks for sharing!
As a 24 year old junior engineer, who's only worked yet in pre-1980 built ships, this makes it look fancy
If you work on a ship owned by a Canadian company on the great lakes, a good number of them were made in the last 25 years.
Damn the engineering behind all this is absolutely insane!
Hats off to the fine men that spend their time in such a working place and keep their ships sailing to deliver us our consumer goods. My Toyota starts at a touch of a button and was delivered to me from Japan after firing up a ship a like that..
If I went on an ocean cruse, this is the part of the ship I would most like to see; and they'd probably do their level best to keep me outa there.
I worked many years on a river cruiser in Russia as watch and chief officer. We are always made visits to the Bridge and to the Engine for our passengers. There are no any secrets, except if that vessel was not in perfect condition.
Carnival does tours but I don’t know how much they show
You used to be able to get a pretty good ship technical tour before 911, then they limited them a lot. From what I understand they are back to giving some sort of tours, but perhaps not nearly as complete as they used to be. Back then we got to see darned near everything
Hey Jeff
Love your videos,brings back memories
I was a second engineer on Israeli ships
I am retired now,waiting for the next video
Keep it up!
blieve me there is day will come we will take our land from you as Allah said
"And We warned the Children of Israel in the Scripture, “You will certainly cause corruption in the land twice, and you will become extremely arrogant*When the first of the two warnings would come to pass, We would send against you some of Our servants of great might, who would ravage your homes. This would be a warning fulfilled*Then ˹after your repentance˺ We would give you the upper hand over them and aid you with wealth and offspring, causing you to outnumber them*If you act rightly, it is for your own good, but if you do wrong, it is to your own loss. “And when the second warning would come to pass, your enemies would ˹be left to˺ totally disgrace you and enter the Temple ˹of Jerusalem˺ as they entered it the first time, and utterly destroy whatever would fall into their hands"
Beautiful. Thank you for the upload. These machines truly do have a soul. The Aedeptus Mechanicus are right.
Damn straight 🥳
This entire process makes preparing a ship with canvas sails a whole lot easier to handle. The only positive observation is how clean the engines and the surrounding areas are kept. This ship and its labour intense engine testing and starting routines are incredibly manual procedures. The real convincing item is when a crew member picks up a phone and then hand cranks it to get a connection. The old American Indian smoke signals seem so much more modern and an easier way to communicate ! By now it is presumed this ship is sitting somewhere waiting for the scrapper's torches.
The hand-cranking is a safety feature. If there's a failure of the electrical supply for the main telephone system, the old-fashioned hand-cranked ones are self-powered and on a separate circuit, enabling vital areas of the ship to still communicate with each other. Basically every vital piece of machinery on a ship, other than the main engine itself, has at least one redundant back-up unit.
I can only imagine the smell of heavy duty steel, seawater and diesel oil by watching the video. Heaven on earth!
Seawater doesn't get into engine room
It went from sounding like a steam locomotive to a jet turbine, so cool!
I could watch videos like this for hours
Looks like a lot of work :P
And money to :-$%
But ya makes a lot of $$$$$!
Work? Way more than the obvious. How would you like to be underway and underneath the deck plates, next to running machinery, with boxes of paper towels, swabbing the bilges of any oil and water and putting the trash in plastic bags for proper disposal. That's what you do when your oily water separator doesn't work.
@@tbamagic we dont
You probably meant: Looks like a lot of true love 😍
I can't even imagine how much oil and hydraulic oil it takes to run the engine rooms machinery
Chief mate reporting! I've been in container ships smaller than this (feeder ships) but the process is basically the same. Interesting that in this ship it's the engine that tests the rudder. Every vessel I've been on it's the bridge that turns on the pumps and puts the rudder to max angles before departure.
My understanding is that it is a requirement for engineers to test power failure, alarms and local control at least 12 hours prior to departure as per SOLAS.
After testing in the steering flat is complete, test emergency phone and switch pumps to remote for bridge to carry out their tests.
@@samreyy
Well Feeders don't stay long enough in Port for that. I used to sail on larger Container Vessels, a
Nd even there, staying in Port for 8
+ Hours was rare.
@@samreyy That is absolutely correct.
Thanks for the video. very interesting start procedure
This is not just Main Engine Start up procedure. This is ship's engine room getting ready for departure from port or sea. All additional auxiliary systems are started, checked and brought online before Main Engine is given a kick start.
These are some of the checks as per pre-departure checklist, which is a requirement for every ship.
one of my life goals is when I get my own place, I want to get a scrapped one of these huge instrument/light/button master panels and clean it up and use it as an active wall decoration.
I like the old brass ones. Can't afford one, though.
milesmouse72 check ebay for one out of a scrapped vessel. 😀
milesmouse72 nice
Have you accomplished this life goal yet?
The question about the dirty overalls; this shows me that this man is doing his job. a person with clean overalls is not doing his job in my book (worked engine rooms in the navy for around nine years. the only time my works was clean was she i went to the engine room in the morning). thanks for a very outstanding video (worked steam and gas turbines; never worked on a diesel power plant)
Blimey, reminds me of the turbine hall at the power stations I once worked. The size is incredible!
Thank you for the trip 👍 There's been a long time since i last heard these sounds.
This was really interesting to watch. Thank you.
I can remember being part of a 3 man engine commissioning team from MAN Diesel on a sea trail with one of these prime movers, including cylinder pressure testing when running and being right next to two metre high trail of sparks, and standing next to the turbo (about 2 metre diameter and 10000 rpm) during a deliberate stall - it felt like a bomb going off. All sounds fun but we were working 21 hours a day over a long weekend and the engine builders fitted fuel valves incorrectly that meant we had to shut the engine down - resulting in a 220 metre long container ship being a drift in the North Sea near Hamburg without main propulsion for several hours while we worked out why the engine was not getting fuel.
So the engine ran with incorrectly fitted fuel vales but then lost power in the middle of the sea?
We discovered one valve (not the injector) not fitted properly - we also found a large piece of weld material inside the valve. We stopped the engine at sea to replace the valve. The engine was built in Spain and was fitted to a ship in Germany a year after standing in a port - the engine was originally completed for another customer. Maybe (just a guess) the engine was tampered with when standing around in the port for a year.
You turned it off and turned it back on again
Couldn't you have just called AAA for a tow?
Work of Art.. absolutely mind blowing, the skills involved are incredible. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Without these Engineers & mechanics, the ship goes NOWHERE!
I really, really dislike this new practice of putting other links with photos up on the screen before the video is finished. It sucks shit. YOU LISTENING, GOOGLE?
Nah . They don't give a shit.
Great vid up to that point, though.
4 years later.. Still doing it. No. They don't give a shit.
I also really wonder how does the cooling work? There must be some cooling pipes always running through that room or something with all these heavy and heat producing machines.
Simply speaking, raw water or sea water comes in through the ships hull or exterior, and cools the engines 'jacket water' through a heat exchanger. Many of the simple heat exchangers are composed of a large reservoir, with piping running through it, and both the raw water and jacket water in its own contained system (The two liquids do not mix, only exchange temperatures). The raw water comes in through piping and leads throughout the reservoir, cooling the jacket water surrounding the pipes. This jacket water than leads to various spaces cooling various machinery and components of the engine. Most importantly it cools the piston liners which receive the most wear and tear of any part of the engine, and the lube oil cooler which is necessary for engine lubrication. This jacket water picks up heat, and flows back to the heat exchanger where it is again cooled by the incoming raw water.
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Addendum to Slip Slap's reply: For energy efficiency, as much of the engine's waste heat as possible is recaptured. The hot jacket water is also used to run the fresh water generator (a high capacity seawater distilling machine) whilst at sea, and there's a big auxiliary boiler up in the funnel that uses the engine's exhaust to generate steam for ship-wide heating of fuel tanks, living spaces, machinery that needs to be kept hot, etc.
Cool with all the systems and subsystems that are involved with running on those engines. Kind of like a Mainframe, where you have a lot of different components all doing a different part of the job which makes them reliable.
Good video.
The way you handle the start air and turning gear is 100% the safest way to do it.
Most air reservoir valves will leak by some, so leaving the start air manifold drain open in port is the safest option. Additionally not opening the air reservoirs until the turning gear is out is also correct. Many people dont realize that all it takes is one little limit switch failure and main engine will start with the turning gear in.
The turning gear teeth are forged steel while the flywheel of the main engine is cast iron. Its pretty nasty when it happens.
Just incredible - that these machines can be conceived and built !
Cool video. I now have alot more respect for scotty from star trek..!
Yes, he had that machinery, plus the matter-antimatter transducer to be concerned with.
Plus that balky Transporter!
KutWrite Not to mention he had to deal with Captain Ego
David Gray lmlao
You can’t change the laws of physics, I need 30 minutes to start a warp core.....
Scotty always made sure the matter anti--matter injectors were clean or he couldn't get 100% out of the reactor core.
Her: my parents are gone for an hour.... *me: I’ll be there in 45
Dont get it
@@dawidcsx I think it's because of how long it takes to start the enging.
No Jeff...it will take you 45 minutes to get it started and a 15 min drive ..lol
Do you mean, "I'll be there in 45 minutes, start without me?"
45 days? Are you coming all the way from China in that ship?
Ok but will it fit in a miata
Wow - the noise of those massive engines 🤩
Oh man... That's a dream come true... Thanks so much Digger...
How many marine engineer watching here and like sound on engines . Hit like . World would almost freeze without sailors. Happy sailing and calm seas . Cheers to sailors and my fellow man specially marine engineers🌊🌊
I kept waiting for Scotty Kilmer to jump out there and point to an injector and call it a spark plug.
paradisemace1 Scotty kilmer is a great mechanic he just trys to be funny
He's not that good of a mechanic. Some of his video is a big no no. Some of his repairs are sketchy, some will break other things later on. It's a good channel to get an idea how to repoair stuff, but not to be followed for actual repair.
ChrisFix is much better.
ChrisFix simplify things, but atleast show a proper way to do things... And don't give dangerous suggestions.
Proper repairs South Main Auto Repair shows how to do it right.
Marvel of engineering but still uses windows 98.....
MR. Mitch65 The old stuff is much, much better for this type of work. Updates to OS since the late 90's have almost purely been added user functionality and cosmetic. For bare bones work where you would be deleting all of that unnecessary shit anyway 98 and XP are king. There is a reason XP support was not discontinued until very recently.
In Windows 98 you ran in to bluescreens multiple times a week. In NT based (win XP, 7, etc.) This rarely happens. Simply because 98 contains a lot of bad (and dangerous) design which makes it fragile. For example why you could enter kernel mode from Userland? I mean that's just asking for trouble.... If you want something super reliable try a micro kernel based OS like QNX. There is no good reason to run 98 on embedded systems. Usually 98 is chosen for embedded because it is super simple (because you can do anything, 98 is a not going to stop you). The people programming it are often not software developers but for example electrical engineers who have less experience with writing secure, reliable and maintainable code.
One has to remember that the automation system that the ship is built with tends to use the programs available when the ship was designed. This means that until the entire control system is reprogrammed - usually entailing replacement of the computer mainframes, you get to run what is installed. Within the last 5 years I have run large vessels still operating windows 95 based software.
This ship has the Auto Chief C20 Alarm monitoring system from KONGSBERG. It either uses windows nt 4.0 or windows 2000.
Jon M yea, but yuh can't call Microsoft tech help in India telling them my ship won't start. 🤗
ship is ready for the next port of call, what a beautiful sound when the engine were start to blow then the continues cranking and the humming of the auxiliary...a nice musical instrument for us in engine department....
Wow... I never realized how much effort goes into making one of those run... /great video /cheers
4:12 here’s where they start the engine
Hey thanks
That's really neat. I'm surprised the valves and such is not all automated though so that you pretty much just push a button and it does the standard startup sequence with various checks in between. So you would just need to sit and wait while it runs through everything.
Dinosaurs train station
I remember my first embarkation on a tanker ship, the engine room seems pretty similar, even the alarm sound is same. The amazing thing is, when the order is given usually from the bridge, the whole ship trembles like it's gonna tear apart from that massive engine producing 25000 SHP. BTW those who are wondering there isn't an actual button to start it up, rather there is a button that allows fuel to be ignited in the combustion chamber. Without the fuel pump to boost the fuel and the sparks to ignite it and turn the cylinders, no power from the main engine. It's a whole network down there, that even gave my Second Engineer a run for his money. Well remembering all of that made me feel kinda strange....
Seeing this first time, always wanted to see this ever since I saw Titanic, Awesome
Rudder drive makes a distinct sound. Is it a Siemens?
Great video...something I have not seen before. I was surprised by how much room and space there is in the engine room, it's like a small power plant, which it is. I am a mechanical engineer, but never been around this type of engine machinery before - so very interesting. I was under the impression that the modern cruise ships now use electric propulsion systems, driven by diesel gen sets. Will the newer cargo ships also go this way?
Awwesome vid. Thought it was a little paltry till 6:15. Those towers n copper pipes arnt pistons n air headers. Their injectors n fuel lines. The pistons are under those! What a beast of a donk! Correct me if my topology is wrong, but yep. Epic engine.
Also, respect for the crisp white jumpsuit with the oily arse handwipe zone. Im pretty sure god gave engineers arses to wipe their greasy hands on.
arjovenzia i
Injectors are lower to the left. the larger ones are the hydraulically operated valves.
Sure did !
Hydraulically operated Exhaust valve. Exhaust valve on the top hence the term a Uniflow engine
That tower nd copper pipe are exhaust valve nd high pressure hydraulic pipe to actuate the exhaust valve....
The amazing thing is that fifty bazillion HP MAN engine sits there and does nothing that you can see while propelling a ship through the ocean. Because ENGINEERING.
I miss running EMD 645 20 cylinders and the big 6- cylinder Sulzer. Thanks for posting from an old engineer.
This is called a nicely detailed vdo on M/E start up procedure.