Starting The BIGGEST DIESEL ENGINE On Earth | 22.000 hp B&W 2000 COLD START

Start up of the 8-cylinder double-acting, two-stroke diesel engine B&W 2000 at Diesel House in Denmark (opposed-piston engine). Since 1933 it was the world's largest diesel engine for more than 30 years. The engine is started every 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month: dieselhouse.dk/en/engines/bw-...
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[@royshashibrock3990]

One of the best videos on this subject I have seen. Not only do we get to see the engine start and slowly come to a halt after shutdown, but there is even a functional model with one cylinder cut away to reveal the opposing piston design. The video also includes shots of the enormous valves as well a valve along with its valve pocket. Shots of the starting compressor are shown too. To top it all off, the video quality is very good, and the video is not overly long (time wise). Bravo.

[@taxicamel]

Agreed. Until I saw the "cut-away" at the end, I misunderstood "opposed piston". What a beautiful piece of machinery. I hoped the operator, with the microphone would narrate some information about the technical specs. as the end. .

[@jeffarchibald3837]

I need to fit this into my Miata.

[@espensund2878]

Some dude on youtube probably have made a how-to😂

[@stevencooper2464]

Hold on there...I need it for my skateboard😁

[@davidhall8874]

A diesel Miata? I was thinking of just putting a windup motor in mine.

[@galewinds7696]

It will fit.......put one in mine ....only problem it's a bit slow on take off 😕 🙃

[@unclej3910]

It would flatten your Miata. I bet it weighs a few tons.

[@kdog3908]

One of those things that can turn most fellas into an awestruck 10 yr old again...Watching a really, really big piece of machinery rumbling and hissing itself into life. Great stuff!

[@DonkeyRhubarb21]

Absolutely!

[@jlo13800]

Can i get one in a 2024 new skidoo?

[@Navyguy1990]

@@jlo13800 , how about a Skido that sounds like that? 😁

[@jlo13800]

This engine is now offered on the 2024 arcticat catylyst sorry!

[@ralphbeamer3082]

I’m one of those little kids

[@dieterk9568]

I was sailing on MS " Georg Büchner" ex " Charlesville" 50 years ago driven by such an engine, built in 1950. I started my sailors life there and decided for an engeneers career on the spot, when I saw this fascinating engine. But I must admit, that it were tough times sailing in tropical waters with 45°C ER temp and exhaustgas enriched air leaking from the lower exhaust piston stuffing boxes you can see oscillating in the video 😂

[@pliashmuldba]

Some think they are a MAN when they have worked on a engine, you are NOT ! You are a MAN when you have worked inside a engine. Also any proper MAN engine, well they top out around 90 RPM Yeah a engine room get mighty hot on Equator, teach a man hoe to sweat like a real MAN. And not German MAN that later bought B&W to be able to make proper engines.

[@dieterk9568]

PS: unfortunately this precious piece of engineering was lost for ever, when the vessel was towed to the scrap yard and sank underway in the eastern Baltic in May 2013 😥

[@johnmeyers3844]

Very impressive engine. The start-up didn’t seem too complex-he opened a valve and flipped a switch. Starting my truck in the winter is more difficult.

[@verttikoo2052]

Be happy because your truck doesn’t consume even half of what that monster does 😮

[@vistakay]

Be sad because your truck doesn't haul even half of what this monster does 😮

[@rigididiot]

What you did NOT see was the approx 15~30 minutes of running around prelubing everything and turning the engine over, the checks and tests, BEFORE he opened that valve and flipped that switch....

[@nazgulX]

Because it's a fraud. The engine is powered by compressed air, as in most engine shows.

[@rigididiot]

@@nazgulX Having been there, and being a marine engineer, I can assure you that that engine does NOT run on compressed air...

[@henrykoplien1007]

I attended a demonstration a while ago. Really impressive. This device was used generating current for Copenhagen in former times they said.

[@alliwishis_2]

Thank you I was wondering what they had built this beautiful machine for

[@larswhitt1549]

@@alliwishis_2 And today, when powered up it can deliever elctricity to all of city of Copenhagen... is almost a small wonder.,

[@ncooper8438]

There's a little gauge showing MW for megawatts.

[@scottbruner9266]

I’m watching this in my car with some decent speakers, while idling. The sounds, with the gentle vibrations……..I’m in heaven…….

[@phil4986]

This looks like a real life scene out of the old movie Metropolis. What an astonishingly large engine.

[@RandoWisLuL]

love that movie.

[@Justin.Franks]

@@RandoWisLuL Absolute masterpiece.

[@RandoWisLuL]

@@Justin.Franks couldn't agree more.

[@perrydear]

That is some engineering! So impressive, so smooth..!

[@MervynPartin]

I've never had the pleasure of working on opposed piston B&W engines, only the Uniflow type with exhaust valves (and valve springs which often broke!). Nice to see this machine is still in working order.

[@billdoodson4232]

This isn't just an opposed piston engine, its also double acting. It has 3 pistons in each cylinder, 3 different bores and 2 lengths of stroke for the 3 pistons. The one I sailed on in 1975 had the unfortunate habbit of having a scavange fire at regular intervals.

[@MervynPartin]

@@billdoodson4232Ah, happy memories of scavenge fires! It was like that on my first trip. The tanker had a 10 cylinder Kincaid-B&W main engine. I was glad when I left that ship.

[@billdoodson4232]

@@MervynPartin I never really liked any B&W's, I did my first voyage on the double acting engine, hated it at the time, but now see it as an experience I can go on about. Did a couple of of opposed piston engines both B&W and Doxford and I think 2 uniflow B&W's which if anything were worse than the double acting. Loved the RD and RND Sulzers though. Best engines ever.

[@MervynPartin]

@@billdoodson4232 I know what you mean about the Sulzers. I had 2 trips on a LPG carrier with a Swiss-built Sulzer that ran lovely. Unfortunately, it had Stork Werkspoor diesel generators which kept bending crankshafts.

[@billdoodson4232]

@@MervynPartin I had a similar issue with generator engines fitted to one class of ship as "in port" gennys. They used to throw rods or seize at the drop of a hat. They were Paxmans, more commonly known as Poxmans. One would break a rod which would go through the crankcase, shoot across the engine bay and then put a hole in the other engine which would then fail even more spectacularly as it tried to take an instantaneous doubling in load. The Sulzer ME sort of made up for it, but the normal sea going gennys were Allens, which were nothing special. I spent the last 5 years at sea foreign flag with Sanko, all Sulzer ME's and the very best gennys I ever had the pleasure of sailing with, Yanmar.

[@millepill]

I signed on the O/O tanker M/S Svealand in 1975. It had a B&W ten cylinder with 40700 BHP.

[@ghostsquirrel8739]

What a beast. That idle is such sweet music.

[@derekliddle805]

Nice to see an opposed piston engine still running. I sailed with a Doxford 76J6 on a ship built in Sunderland in 1967. All of these engines stopped being made in favour of the single acting B&W or Sulzer designs. Fewer moving parts for a start.

[@marymoor935]

That's an insane piece of kit, absolutely fantastic, thank you ❤️😁👍

[@MickeyMouse-ul2zs]

I never sailed on a ship with a B&W main engine but several with B&W generators. This looks very like the old C.C.Pounder designed H&W opposed piston engines of the '50s and '60s. Many British shipping companies had ships with these main engines and I sailed on several vessels with either twin 6-cyl or single 8-cylinder installations. Not particularly powerful but could still propel a 1950s built fridge boat to +21 knots when asked.

[@robgeotim]

B&W. My dad was ChEng in the 30's to 60's. Mostly Sulzer, Stork and MAN. When he ran the I&J workshops in Mossel Bay there were 12 Danish built wooden trawlers and they all had B&W DL diesels. Jurgen Nielsen of B&W South Africa regularly visited from Cape Town, bringing spares and a bottle of Chivas!! Dad said they were great engines to work with.

[@wvincus5522]

Awesome indeed. Amazing engineering from the thirties. It’s well maintained as I see. Thanks for showing us this beauty.

[@mikelouis9389]

I would love to see this bad boy running full out! Great video, thank you.

[@oswaldjacobs1882]

The Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C turbocharged two-stroke diesel engine is the world's largest and most powerful production internal combustion engine. It has a maximum output of 84.42 MW (113,000 hp) of power and a displacement of 1,820 litres (110,195 cubic inches), making it larger than a V12 engine.

[@JuanFredful]

Always a Wärsilä idiot mentioning that.. read the title carefully.

[@HiPockets]

Work of art.

[@_Alfa.Bravo_]

... how many zylinders? Made in Finland?

[@JoppeOSL]

@@_Alfa.Bravo_ The Wärtsilä RT-flex96C is a two-stroke turbocharged low-speed diesel engine designed by the Finnish manufacturer Wärtsilä. It is designed for large container ships that run on heavy fuel oil. Its largest 14-cylinder version is 13.5 meters high, 26.59 meters long, weighs over 2,300 tonnes, and produces 80.08 megawatts. The engine is the largest reciprocating engine in the world. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%A4rtsil%C3%A4-Sulzer_RTA96-C

[@jimihendrix991]

@@_Alfa.Bravo_ 14 and yes.

[@iangrimshaw1]

I note with great satisfaction how he opened up the 'hot' valve at the beginning fully; then cracked it back a bit so it wouldn't get stuck as the valve heated up. A true engineer worth his overalls. Salut.

[@SmaxChristopher1]

Whilst I agree with your view on not back seating a valve, that is the air start inlet valve so it doesn’t get hot.

[@toom8rs15]

I noticed how he handled the opening of “something” and seemed to fiddle with it for a quick second Even an engine of this size has a sweet spot for start up😊 Specifically speaking I have NO idea what he was doing but I could tell that he knew EXACTLY what he was doing What an AWESOME and AMAZING piece of engineering

[@jerryrobinson7856]

SUCH a marvel of engineering at the time and even now. The massive effort to machine and install this had to be an amazing accomplishment and even a pride of skill-manship. What an honor.

[@xraylife]

Bet this engine outlives all the EV's in current use.

[@harmongladding8202]

Humanity won't outlive them at the current rate of change.

[@stoepsi]

I bet the pyramids outlive all the houses in current use. I still prefer a modern house to pyramids or their predecessors: caves

[@xraylife]

@@harmongladding8202 Sounds like the "global boiling" hoax. Memo; temperatures are 5oC lower than when the Romans were around.

[@koyaanisqatsi316]

Pyramids were never meant to live in and there are luxury caves today that are very nice.

[@denvan3143]

Years back the techpub firm I worked for did updates for some Ferry-Morse diesels for an electronic manual. The engine block didn’t seem all that spectacular until the writer on the project informed me the engine block I was re-creating as electronic art was the size of a city bus - and that it wasn’t their biggest engine. That was impressive.

[@dieselfan7406]

I should go there - all those fantastic noises!

[@qa1e2r4]

After it started i was expecting the building to rise up and start walking through the town. :D

[@1coppertop]

Wow. I was expecting a gorilla to start hurling wooden barrels down those ladders. What a massive system.

[@mkvv5687]

"Diesel Kong!"

[@calvinbass1839]

The milage is going to remain terrible until they put wheels on it.

[@chuckredd9131]

It's going green, wind & solar will power it in the near future. It will even run much quitter.(If at all) So sad!!

[@martingrey4904]

All main engines are started the same way; by compressed air being injected through an air start valve on the cylinder heads, which kick the engine over then fuel rack is opened allowing fuel to be injected into the engine.

[@UncleWally3]

Imagine what Allen Millyard could do with this engine?

[@thesaints-7-andrew.]

Watching from Greece.hi everybody. WOW!!! That's an amazing thing to watch.

[@raymondgidman6466]

It runs clean for it size & age.

[@edilsonmartins6653]

Um motor dois tempos de pistões opostos, fantástico!

[@qpeciarz1902]

Industrial techno. I love it!😍

[@MrSplodez]

engine runaway on this thing would turn Denmark into Atlantis

[@hocvachoi8888]

Thank you for sharing. Good luck. See you again

[@brucemaki8679]

Why does Denmark always get all the fun??!

[@vijayanmg4085]

Please note that there are engines presently with more than a 100,000 BHP fitted on vessels. 22000 BHP engines were in operation for than 50 years

[@fixento]

However, large is a relative term, and does not imply BHP.

[@caro.lanver2]

@@SunriseLAWyes for the run,but for starting is diesel oil. After that is blend oil, mixing of diesel and bunker sea, and finally avec 2 hrs at full rpm around 102...there is full bunker sea .

[@kqc7011]

@@SunriseLAW LNG tankers will also fuel their large diesels with the LNG that is their cargo. Some of those large engines can burn about anything from heavy crude to light sweet crude. (as Caro.lanver said they start on diesel and then switch to product) They will require specialized equipment to burn the product they are carrying. And many very large container ships (not all) are using two engines under 50,000 HP each. But some are using a single Wartsila Sulzer engine, and HP for those engines varies as the engine can be ordered with anywhere from 5 to 14 cylinders. The 14 cylinder can produce around 109,000 HP. (depending on what they are burning and other factors)

[@JaguarXJRman]

When I was serving active duty U.S. Coast Guard onboard Cutter Hamilton (WHEC-715), she had two Fairbanks-Morse inline 12 cylinder two cycle oppose piston diesel main propulsion engines. We would joke that the emblem of “O-P” meant oil pump because the lower air box covers would constantly leak lube oil. These engines had two huge turbochargers at the front feeding into a huge scavenger charger pushing the compressed air into the air boxes. At first, on the Atlantic side we were using marine grade heavy diesel fuel oil to lube the pop injectors, but after crossing the Panama Canal to change of duty stations from Boston MA to San Pedro CA, the liberal west coast climate change cultists forced us to use a thinner JP4/JP5 aviation fuel, we were forced to modify the injectors. The injectors were center mounted in each cylinder.

[@jimmiller5600]

@@JaguarXJRman Must be terrible for Californians not to choke to death on smog, eh?

[@urbandad885]

Good hobby for a cold winter's night.

[@Janika1982]

Wow,nice,big engine!😊

[@Flickerbrain]

Insane engineering! Getting the tolerances right when you're dealing with something so big!

[@JoJo-me8ih]

🧠✋🏻

[@MadScientist267]

Hate to ruin the party but this is only about 1/5 the power of the world's largest diesel 🤣

[@gsp911]

@@MadScientist267 Where is that engine used?

[@MadScientist267]

@@gsp911 It is in use in at least one very large shipping vessel... Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C It's an inline 14, and clocks in just shy of 110k HP. 25,592 litres (1,556,002 ci) 7,603,850 Nm (5,608,310 lbf⋅ft) @ 102 rpm (redline) Just a couple of key specs. The thing is absolutely massive.

[@janicecopeland9083]

Amazing, a work of art!

[@aquilesmasdmd]

It’s like starting up a whole building. Crazy But that one little wheel seems to be the key to starting this thing up. 😂

[@Matityahu755]

Coming from the county of Lincolnshire, England where they manufactured diesel engines, watching this type of stuff really is interesting. Ruston & Hornsby were pretty well known world wide back in the early 1900's.

[@marianbalaz9195]

Monumentalni mechanizmus respkt panom inzinierom a vyrobnym mechanikom BRAVO👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@catkeys6911]

Imagine building this thing- all the unique parts and shapes needed, and on such a huge scale!

[@michaelrini3654]

I love it when a big engine has its own patio and walkways!! Also ladders!

[@garypippenger202]

Yeah, I'll be sure to make that a priority during my vacation in Denmark.

[@madbeef.]

Blows your mind drastically fantastically.

[@johnnymunro4650]

I’ve seen photos of that motor but never seen run thanks very much

[@vashisl33t]

Its like waking up a giant beast.

[@hermitthefrog8951]

A true thing of beauty!

[@Tantrum1701]

An old Asea generator before it merged with Brown Boveri and became ABB. Great to see it maintained and operated as a museum.

[@Ersfeld_Claude_art]

Ich bin immer wieder fasziniert von der Ingenieurskunst die solche Motoren ermöglichen.

[@tonycook7679]

Ich auch

[@animallover19581]

Kudos, to the person who got up one morning and decided I'm gonna build a huge diesel engine. 👍👀🤗🙊😇

[@tonyohalloran8817]

B & W old school cool right there.

[@scottzehrung4829]

Modern art and music combined.

[@christiandietz6341]

Amazing! Such a monster in motion!

[@WINCHANDLE]

WOW. Music to my ears.

[@WinningOnline]

Imagine this beast became a runaway - run!

[@Ozzy-parker]

I’d say if that were to runaway it’d be pretty wild.

[@derjoh1986]

I'm surprised how quiet it is for an engine that size! Incredible!

[@fr3dr02]

The guys like" yes yes come alive my darling yes yes"😂

[@joewalker9032]

You imagine this diesel engine “running away” yikes 😅 very cool stuff, thanks for sharing.

[@medicbabe2ID]

You'd just have to evacuate the neighboring counties, I'd imagine 😳

[@pollepost]

It can't run away, its a two stroke

[@winterburan]

😃Beautiful, unparalleled, but the most powerful engine in the world is the Wärtsilä-Sulzer RT-flex96C 14-cylinder 107,390 hp!

[@renej.hansen2721]

That was an amazing engine. Although replacing the inside fuel pumps on the V-block was a bitch when working in 40deg C temperatures.

[@pollepost]

This is such an interesting museum. Free entrance. And the retired engineers love to talk about the engines and answer all technical questions. There is more to see than this engine. Enjoy

[@ruperterskin2117]

Cool. Thanks for sharing.

[@willmore8765]

Very nice, very precise! Wow!

[@TechGorilla1987]

I'd have watched the entire thing. It could have been an hour and I would still be fascinated.

[@MrGoblin60]

Quite a magnificent monster.

[@kenolson6572]

I'd like to see a dozer big enough to use this.

[@chuckmaddison2924]

I've been in a room with an ex submarine Diesel running. But this si bigger. My favourite is still the Napier Deltic with all its pistons going in all directions. Seriously clever.

[@jeremywhite164]

Very interesting. I was sailing on slow speed diesel ships in the 60’s . This looks very much like the B &W double acting two stroke engines which were build in Harland and Wolfe (Belfast) just after WW 2. The diesels built by Sulzer (Swiss) were always my favorites. Depending on when this engine was built, it could have been the worlds largest diesel at that time, but modern diesels I believe, can go over 100k HP on a single shaft at about 82 rpm.

[@billdoodson4232]

Yes its a double acting engine. Total pain to sail on.

[@peterjackson2625]

Used to watch this type of ship engine on test at North East Marine at Wallsend, on the Tyne, about 1960.

[@HillCountryVista]

I could smell the grease and metal. Great video!

[@yorukkizigeziyor]

😍😍Very Beautiful 😍😍

[@adventuresofdeankane3569]

This in the back of a corsa will have the birds throwing them self's at me 😂

[@tonyfeuerhelm]

The Buzzz the Vibration in that engine room must be intoxicating...:) I've been on 100 foot + sport fishing boat. Love that rumble. I was working nights in Broadway stores I simply could not sleep during the day. Lay on top of the "City of Redondo" wood hull 65' boat bought by Roy & Doras Peters 1940'S. I would buy a ticket to fish but with Captians okay go topside with the emergency rafts and sleep like a baby.

[@ManutubaWhistler]

Fantastic !

[@railbuddy8372]

nice vdo friend...love it..greetings from india

[@rolandschweiger8678]

wow - what an Engine!!

[@txrick4879]

Now that is a big one .

[@compman34]

Oil changes on that must be epic.

[@KenGilmour-im3rz]

I had I was a fourth engineer officer standing by one these old timers. I got the chance to drive her during engine trials . Three piston in each cylinder eight cylinders 64 fuel valves . They were prone to scavenge fires . They were also extremely heavy to manoeuvre as it was all manual bell cranks . However feel very privileged to have driven one of these double actors.

[@jlbminestine698]

the best sound on earth!

[@icraftcrafts8685]

enough power to run an nvidia gpu

[@ThePaulv12]

Yes but will it play Crysis?

[@OleDiaBole]

It is oposed piston two stroke of very interesting design. Oh, i would love more technical data apart from being very long lived. Fuel consumption per kWh for example.

[@brianjohnson217]

Absolutely awesome

[@JCCoutoBrasil]

- Hi, Sir! How long do you work here? - WHAT?!

[@didierdel2319]

C'est incroyable ce que l'homme peut créer

[@marcob4630]

impressive!

[@JamesWilliams-gv7zd]

That's impressive

[@rckc.1719]

imagine ordering parts for this beauty.

[@kaasmeester5903]

Impressive. Looks a bit like the M-Machine from the Metropolis movie.

[@raztaz826]

Large machines are awsome!

[@seamusoreilly804]

Doing a valve job on that must be incredible.

[@steakandkidney3142]

A veritable cathedral of power. Praise be.

[@dannyfeeney318]

Very neat!

[@greyface_music]

Need this in my alto 💥

[@duron700r]

They have used and likely do still use the engine and generator to set the cylces per minute so the other gen stations can follow along. Love this engine, wish i can see it someday.

[@DrBovdin]

Not anymore. It has been totally cut off from the grid (they don’t run the exciters anymore when they run the engine). But it was until quite recently kept as a backup in case something like a black start of the grid would be necessary and occasionally as a buffer at peak utilisation. It was run for real in the 1990s, maybe even a few years into the 2000s. I don’t remember exactly when it was permanently mothballed. But it is great that the enthusiasts managed to keep it in running condition and created the wonderful little engineering museum around it. Last time I was there for a start the museum had free admission, so if you are in Copenhagen on an open day and you have just the mildest interest in engineering history it is a no-brainer to go visit them.

[@duron700r]

Very interesting! Thank you!

[@ansar68pk]

And that startup was probably worth my yearly salary in diesel fuel costs 😮

[@RogerCarr-qx8zn]

On full load it would consume 1.2 tons per hour!

[@kerrytodd3753]

Impressive!