World's largest Diesel Engine starting
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- Опубликовано: 8 апр 2013
- Built in 1932, it was the world's largest diesel engine for more than 30 years.
The eight cylinder engine is still operational and produces 15.000kW (22.500hp).
Production Name: DM 884WS-150
Further information: dieselhouse.dk
Video information: Recorded in early 2013 in 1080p, 50fps, AVCHD 
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Harley Davidson demonstrate their new lightweight, compact sports engine.
I love it when engines have their own walkways built in
My 1988 350 has walk ways around it
There's some guy out there figuring right now, how he can install this in a pick up truck
I’ll get back to you on that...
Or a little Honda civic
I'm that guy and it's going in a golf cart bro!
Nah - Wartsila-Sulzer has a 14 cylinder that makes 100,000+ horsepower. My next project truck! 😎
I thought my 6.7 Cummins was the largest diesel engine I could buy....
On cold days they have to push it down a hill and dump the clutch to get it started.
BRAPPSUTUTUTUTU!
Holy fuck, you get my internet point for today, made my laugh my head off!
+PrivateEyeYiYi Don't be silly...it's not on wheels...just hand crank it.
Haha made my day :'D
Hahahahahahahahahaha xD
Best thing to remind oneself is not only this engine's a big beast, it's also incredibly reliable, being made to last, while working 24/7. Kudos to the engineers.
This engine is so impressive. I have a cutaway of it hanging on my fridge. :) The start it up each month, and when the national powergrid went offline, this engine helped boost the local powerplant back into action.
Sooo impressive that a double-acting engine from 1932 is still operational.
Wall e and Eve
Wall e and Eve
Wall e and Eve
Man...I can only imagine the feeling of being in that room, actually feeling the presence of this beast coming to life.
Awesome. I've worked in diesel power plants all over the world. This old slow roller is a jewel. Most folks don't realize how many diesel power plants there are in the world. Like all the islands in the Pacific & Atlantic. All the stations in Antarctica. Every remote corner of the world where there are people. Properly maintained, these babies last just about forever.
I'd prefer a portable nuclear reactor.
(Far smaller and uses a shitload less fuel for more energy).
David Vermillion
Where would you store the radio active waste from thousands of small nuclear power plants? If a "portable" nuclear reactor were a good idea, everybody would use them. They're simply not economically feasible for thousands of remote locations.
Grandpa the Grey waste isn't really waste. Most of the "Waste in a reactor is unused fuel. A LFTR reactor (not yet in use yet) can eat other reactors waste and its waste only sticks around for 10-300 years and a byproduct is a substance that can be used for fighting leukemia.
Also portable reactors are feasible, its just people are too scared of nuclear to see past the medias overreactions. Trust me I'm going to college for nuclear engineering pretty soon. I know what I'm talking about. But until LFTRs are put into use really reliable earth-raping diesels will be used.
David Vermillion
I've worked (Electrical Engineer, switchgear design) at three nuclear power plants while they were under construction. All three had diesel power plants for back up/on site power. The COST of a nuke plant is staggering. I could build FIFTY diesel power plants with the same mega watt output for the cost of ONE nuke. All three of the nuke plants I worked at are now decommissioned. Their diesel back up plants were moved and still operational. The military uses either prime or back up diesel power plants at ALL bases. Antarctica uses diesel power at both McMurdo Station and the Pole. So far, diesel is just way more cost effective.
+David Vermillion I see you're point, but LFTRs aren't the way to go, we need to get fusion nailed and then we can talk, preferably cold fusion, I means it's been done once so we must be able to do it again, I don't know what you nuclear physicists are messing around at :) (Yes, I know the claims of cold fusion were never verified, I was joking but I seriously believe fusion is the way to go)
All that to make a single icecube. Technology is amazing
Now now... This isn't 1885, in Hill Valley, and where is Doc?
heheh I love Back to the future references.
back to the future 3 ?
Gotta love that reference man
You mean there's an easier way to get juice from an orange?!?!
I looked at the website and from what I gather it was a backup generator for a power station and also picked up the slack during peak electricity demand. That's pretty extraordinary as I would only expect an engine of this size and configuration to power a large ship.
4:05 that sounds like a dying monster taking its last breaths, after being slayed by the hero.
That is literally what this _IS_.
And it's still less noisy than a Citroen C4 TDi.
Harley Davidson with no exhaust driving by your open window in bed at 2:00 am
the hum sound it makes on startup and shutdown are music to my ears
@@vap0rtranz I suppose you never had to sleep on the other side of a 1/4" steel bulked from one for six months 😉
Trust me, when you're standing next to it, it's NOT as quiet as the video reflects. It makes the whole building rumble and it completely fills the room with the din of clanking rods and whirring blowers.
@@corydorastube I recently dropped out of marine engineering school, so I try not to think of it too much :/
Video's like this are what make You Tube so enjoyable!
This engine is incredible. I would love to see it in person.
I do too and to hear it
I wanna go inside the sparkplug hole and run the engine at max rpm
@@uranium3111 it’s a diesel it doesn’t have spark plug holes
I'll arrange for it to pop in some time!😄
An ever lasting gob stopper falls out of a tray at the end of the engine
Oh....GREAT referance!!!!
I almost pooped my pants that was so funny
Just spat my beer all over the screen when I read this.. 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂
Guessing I’m too young to know this. Either that or I never really payed attention to anything in my life
sounds like a huge beast breathing. I must go to that museum someday to see and hear it in person, it must be amazing
Hello 😁
@@fanhalflife8298 YOOOOOOOO
The startup of this engine most likely was also the start of Industrial electronic music.
I love the fact that we can build such massive excellent machines.
They* u aint build shit
At least we could in the past… 😉
@@serpent213 No, we still can. The engines that are in cruise ships are not the diesel engines that are put in pickups and semi-trucks.
It's built by a Finnish company to power a huge cargo ship. The most amazing thing is how thermally efficient it is. It exceeds 50%. This means that 50% of the heat generated by burning fuel is converted to power. A remarkable piece of engineering.
this is for a powerplant though
@@pyro8750 yes, normally gigantic two stroke diesel engines like this are housed in big ships as well as power plants
Not build by a Finnish company but by a now defunct Danish shipyard (Burmeister & Wain) that was located in Copenhagen and mainly built ship engines. these days its owned by MAN which still builds diesel engines for ships.
@@skodass1 Harland + Wolf built them under license.
Really? Because of double action? With no turbochargers utilizing exhaust energy ( here we have mechanical blowers) , no direct valve exhaust ( here we have slit purging) , no long strokes? This super complicated double action opposite piston monster was a good attempt to squeeze some power out of relict technologies .
at shut down.. it REALLY sounds like a living creature.. just beautiful!
I want everyone to understand something. Assuming what someone else has mentioned is true, and it runs at 60rpm (and produces 22,500hp at 60rpm) this beast is cranking out 1,969,500ft-lbs. of torque.
Two. Million. Foot-pounds.
To turn an electric generator.
Thankyou for not being an idiot, no one cares how much hp a diesel has, its abuot torque.
Peter Orsome There's a formula to do it. Unfortunately, I don't have that formula memorized so I just search for "engine torque calculator".
This is NOT a ship engine, it was used to make electricity until the 80's.
Ship engines are built into the ship and get dismantled/destroyed when the ship does. It is extremely rare for an engine taken out to be taken out in any meaningful way. When they replaced powerplants on ww2 ships they pretty much just cut them up into little bits.
Peter Orsome
HP = (torque x RPM) / 5252
Torque needs to be in ft-lbs.
The sound of the engine stopping is just amazing! Sounds like the breath of a giant dying
The sound of that final, long sigh as it is laid to rest till next time.
+Dexxter man. funny how youtube directs you to random videos. i was looking at the difference between a petrol and diesel engine and ended up here.. :)
anyway, the SIGHHHH's and the end was fascinating... sounded like a huge ,living breathing creature taking its last breath. wow it was surreal and awesome.
Could you imagine how much money this costs and imagine the time and labor it took to build.
Fuel used to be 5 cents a gallon. Then they started this for the first time.
These engines are so cool. My buddy actually works on them. The crank has to be rotated with compressed air until it is going fast enough that it will make enough heat to actually burn the fuel. Oh and something for you to think about. Cylinders are roughly 3ft in diameter and they have little doors you can open if work inside the cylinder if need be.
This made me grow chest hair
you're real cute so that's cool
1996krt Thanks ^^
+Jessica Taylor hey anytime. we have the same last name, but I'd still do ya
+Jessica Taylor i love your hair color.
Joe Smith It means I have no soul
imagine blowing a head gasket on that behemoth...
next step: fitting it in my truck!
Big marine diesels, like this one, start by compressed air. I've been in this museum during one of these demonstrations. They don't actually run this beast, they just use the compressed air system on it. Even so it's pretty impressive.
Oh god, the thought of a runaway diesel engine this big scares me.
I would want to be two towns over if that were to happen.
I thought the same thing lol
No turbo, not going to happen ;)
johannisbeersaft
Actually - the lack of a turbocharger has little to do with the possibility of a 'runaway' condition. Any diesel engine has the ability to run on its own lubricating oil leaking into the intake-manifold. HOWEVER: This engine is "dry sump" design (No oil in crankcase). Hence *that* is the reason why a 'runaway' condition is unlikely.
Bruce Peebles Engine oil has nothing to do with a diesel engine "running away" a run away has to deal with the fuel rack in the governor sticking causing the engine to out run the governor. Hence the name run away.
there must be 80 years of engineering experience between those 2 oldtimers.Hail to the Chiefs hail hail.
Yes. I feel quite nostalgic watching this.
Manny Boy
OLD GUYS RULE!!
I heard the VTEC kick in. 👍
Diesel, the first Techno noise ^^
Techno noise is a feeble attempt to copy sounds like this engine makes.
no one listens to techno, so lets go
ILiveuDertHeBrige In one of Beethoven's Symphonies some swear that they hear a diesel engine!
Fascinating that it uses almost the same amount of time to stop as it uses to start.
An awesome piece of
Engineering and technology.
Even by today’s standards
Wall e and Eve
Wall e and Eve 🥨🥨🥨🥨🥨🥨
Wall e and Eve
Danish big ass engine! :D
Build in 1932 and was in use to about 1969
It has 22.500HP and was used for electricity in Copenhagen and Zealand, in Denmark.
That thing looks to be 4 stories tall. Very impressive piece of manufacturing.
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watch the building take off
You have just made my day. Cheers to you.
Judging by its size (and estimated mass) it may still be the biggest internal combustion engine on this Planet.
not even close. Look up the answer.
@@marks6663 ~ You are quite right. The largest engines are installed in the large 20,000 containers ships. They are about 100,000BHP.
if this engine could make breakfast... i wonder what kind of a breakfast it would make...
The world's largest pancake
Mammoth bacon and Trex Eggs
God would have emerged and asked "Hey! , what`s for breakfast?"
it,could bring global friskies and whiskas cat food prices tumbling down if we used this machine to manufacture pet food
Uv fried African and damp polar bear
I had a motorcycle with two of those engines in it.
+4998826p only 2, mine had 4, but to be hounest, I couldn't handle the power.
No way I put it on my razor scooter, 0-light speed in no time
No way me too man
It probably cornered like crap!! Did you measure the bore and stroke in yards ? Could it pull a sidecar?? How many gallons to the mile did you get?? Could you tell me how to fit one in a Ural?
I got 4 on my heelys😂
Man, this is one big-ass engine. And the sound when the engine cranks up is like a fun disco beat
CO2 emission are less than recent 2.0 Diesels from VW.
It could even be true. They measured that heavy trucks and buses emit half the NOx of these Volkswagens.
thank God my dad's VW runs on gas
I sense the price of diesel rising
Crank shafts on that's got to be an amazing piece...
This old slow roller is a jewel .fantastic. More adds.carry-on.
Thanks for the video, thumbs up!
I love seeing things like this. I am glad we have technology and a source to share this with the world like You-Tube. It would be very interesting to understand fully the process of getting that things started. They used compressed air for something. Was that to get the equivalent to a starter motor like a car engine would have? How big are the pistons? How long is the Connecting Rod's? What about the crankshaft and camshaft? I would like to see all the parts.
imagine doing a rebuild on that....
imagine trying to bore it out .060 over haha
Lalo Herrera i would guess you'd have to use an oil drilling rig? hahaha
Hey mate, hand me that piston would ya?
Be ordering this for my smart car on Tuesday!!!!
Thanks for diesel engines , the whole is in progress , 👌
They did use it in old days to make elektricity for Copenhagen. like a back-up if evrything els did go down, they still start it up 1 time evry month, even to'day. year 2013...
OMG!! It's seams more a building as an engine!! Amazing! And in the end when begin to turn off seams a giant breathing!! ;D ;D
Sounds great.
Music to the ears awesome.. live diesel engines
The fact that men and women can build such huge contraptions with SO MANY moving parts and actually get it to run is still miraculous to me. The scope of building something of this magnitude is beyond my imagination.
Lol, I guarantee that in 1932 not 1 woman was involved in designing, constructing or maintaining this engine.
@@elliotkane4443 Agree.
@@elliotkane4443 you are 100% correct
@@elliotkane4443bro it was 1932 not the 1800s. I doubt by 1932 not a single woman was working on that engine.
@@Morbpious Bro! It wasn't til ww2 that women started working in these jobs.
You can watch all sorts of films by Ford and GM around this time.
I guarantee you will not see any women designing or working around cars.
CHUCK NORRIS has 2 of these in his Lawn mower...lol
You know it's a big engine when you have multiple ladders attached to the block lol
Imagine rolling into Valvoline with this thing swapped in a Miata for an oil change.
Something this large requires a "Manometer" 2:35
quite funny I suppose. a manometer only measures the differential pressures of gasses. Now a sphygmomanometer..... boring really its a gas pump blood pressure measuring device
This is one of the most amazing museum pieces I've ever seen. Love Denmark.
What a beautiful beast of a machine :-)
Simply beautifully. This engine will last foreever
Can we use this to change earths rotation to make the weekdays go by faster and the weekends longer?
oh hell yes my boy
you deserve a Nobel prize for this
A nice engine to fit on my motorbike frame.
When shutting down the engine sounded like it was taking its last breaths 😩🤣👍🫶🏻
My 1971 Pontiac 400 still has the crosshatch pattern in the cylinder walls at 50,000 miles. No scratches in the bores at all. It looks new inside.
That's not an engine, that's a fucking metal building.
Sounds like my Lada starting up on a cold day.
I thought it would sound mean not like a train
How do you double the value of a Lada ? Fill the tank with fuel.
Nice one. Apparently, they had heated rear windows, so that your hands are warmed when you push it.
Ivor Biggun Believe it or not, The Russians know how to build tough capable 4wd's. The Lada Niva is an excellent offroad vehicle with long travel coil suspension.
Russia is good with many things, including telling the EU to bugger off.
It's the EU that has caused the conflict in Ukraine.
These political arseholes love a war don't they? As long as it occurs thousands of miles away from their mansions in the country.
Very nice to be able to just listen to the sound of the engine
sounds like real progress!
I would love to see one of the pistons on this monster
This event was held inside a old diesel truck. The only people that could get in were scientist that were tired of there normal size and shrinked them self
I have been there. AMAZING ENGINE.
Fantastic!!! :)
Reminds me of the scene in "Forbidden Planet" where Mordred takes the Doctor and the Captain down to see the Krell's "Big Machine".
Morbius
Imagine that thing running away
+SharpShotz Holy shit, there'd be nowhere to go! It would be death by flying couch sized chunks of cast iron and power station amounts of fire.
+SharpShotz You could clock up the air intake ... but throwing a cruise ship in it or something.
omg imagine the noise of that thing wide open
It would cause an earthquake
No turbocharger
Awesome video
Thats one big machine!!!!
Ah, the Elephant in the room.
at that rate you'll never get it up to 88mph
But how much diesel doest it drinks?
Engineer: yes
extreme start
Now all he needs are some catarpillar tracks and a city to make a traction city!
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
The title is English,
And the vid should be too
3:02 chuck Norris could totally stop that shaft from rotating with his bare hands
Just imagining the force it takes to spin those pistons and that camshaft. Shit probably weighs more than a house.
This isn't the largest engine now; the largest now is the Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C. Its fastest speed is 102 rpm, and it used about a third of a gallon every revolution. This means it uses about 34 gallons per minute at top speed. At idle (22 rpm) it uses 7.33 gallons per minute.
This means at idle and with diesel being $4.00 per gallon, the largest engine in the world costs $29.32 per minute to run.
No shit sherlock Built in 1932 ...!
1 Problem...The RTA96 doesn't run on diesel. It runs on heavy fuel oil, HFO is basically the sludge left over from the refining process.
HFO is usually sold by the ton, and current TSA Bunker price is $628 US per ton. Going by a guess that this is a metric ton, there is roughly 267 gallons in a metric ton, working out to a cost, per gallon, of something in the range of $2.35.
Still expensive beasts to run.
Scott Goldmarble You are correct it uses Marine HFO or Brent Crude Oil at about 1660 gallons of crude oil an hour. It producing 80kW or right at 100,000 HP. It normally runs at an 85% load which was determined to be maximum efficiency. A ton is 261 US gallons or 200 kg drum for international standards. It cost just over 100,000 dollars a day to operate but that is based on the newer version RTA96 with common rail injection. Frankly for the amount of tons a Panamax or larger Container ship can carry it is a bargain. I pushed large barges on almost all Inland and Western Rivers (Mississippi River and tributaries). If I ran at 1050 RPM I used 2000 gallons in a 24 hr period to push 10,000 plus tons of cargo at 5 mph. If I backed down to 950 RPM I only used 1000 gallons of fuel to push the same barges at 4 mph for 24 hrs. Ships especially as large as a Container Ship on the other hand are engineered for a certain speed or RPM and they run it 24 hours a day to get maximum fuel savings and max potential out of engine in this case 85% of engines total capacity. They do this without exceeding RPM's that would cause extra wear or maintenance and excessive fuel burn with no significant gain. Prices for Brent Crude Oil in Oct of 2012 had the engine using a little over $100,000 in fuel a day.
Captain Jim Do you know what the purpose of this engine was originally used for?...A generator?,if so,for what?...Steve
Cargo ship.
Scotty Kilmer: This thing is an endless money pit
Scotty kilmer would be in there showing is how to do an oil change on it
Toyota makes a better one...😎
LMBO
just the wee beastie for my old fordson truck
beauty
sick beat
Dear Santa…also a shitton of fuel.
Put a T3 turbo and an intercooler on it, and it would be awesome :P (Irony for those who don't get it)
I get irony, but that is not irony, it is sarcasm.
wonsnot The definitions of Irony and Sarcasm are so diffuse that saying what is what is impossible, some say sarcasm is a form of irony.
FT86TT
You're probably not the only one either, but you ARE the only one bothered enough by it to complain.
how is that in any way ironic?
***** That is what is so ironic about everyone that corrects everyone on the use of irony. Irony is in the interpretation!
cool video, love this stuff.
Imagine the size of all the engine gaskets. Youd have to assemble this engine with multiple cranes!
whoa.....
Was that engine actually running on diesel in this video or just being turned by compressed air?
+Dexxter For me it seems like the engine didn't started, and it was turned only by air. So the title is somehow missleading. If that engine starts would be a loudy thing.
nearly all big engine like this have tanks with compressed air for the start up. And it runs on diesel, I've been there by my self and you can clearly see the smoke in the building and smell burned oil ;)
+Dexxter I don't think it can run that long and that fast on starting air. It sounds though that not all cylinder air breathers were shut down properly that may explain the sound
+tepedor66 it's actually running every second sunday (according to their website and facebook)
+Indrid Cold Personally, I think *anything* is better than the battery technology we've got at the moment. 200 km on a tank of air is pretty good- how long does it take to fill the tank?
The question "Where does the energy to compress the air come from?" keeps cropping up- the answer is, from the same fossil, nuclear and renewable sources that would power public transport.
Wow what a Great Engine, would love to see It maybe someday
VW Secrets factory...this is the mother of VW diesel Engines :D