Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96

[Magnus]

Thought I would tell you a thing or two abt this HUGE diesel engine which powers the enormous Emma Maersk. Emma Maersk is 397 meters long (1302 feet) and 56 meters wide (184 feet).
The crankshaft alone of the RT96A weighs 300 metric tonnes. It has 14 cylinders and the engine develops 109 000 horsepowers. The total weight of the engine is 2300 mt.
The bore is 960 mm and the stroke is 2500 mm.
Toprev is 102 rev/min
160 g of diesel is injected at every stroke at full load.
maximum torque is over 7,6 million newton meter or 5,6 million lb/ft. My mini clubman has 260 Nm, and my beemer 330 has 300...
Total displacement is 1,556,002 cubic inches or 25,480 litres
It consumes 1660 gallon per hour or 6283 liters per hour.
Look at pics here: http://people.bath.ac.uk/ccsshb/12cyl/

[Woodeye]

Finnish firm! :D

http://www.wartsila.com/,en,aboutus,0,generalcontent,1308CD34-D649-465B-9619-EC755FB952EB,EC5C45A6-35EF-492A-B27E-1A7A456C09F8,,.htm

[Daniel]

Wooooooooooooow that's big :)

[leopard]

Sulzer supports many industry machinery, besides producing heavy and marine equipment, we know them produce projectile loom, sulzer weaving of textile machinery.

Although we have to admit that this typical machinery is now sooner or later swept aside by japanese technology like Toyota (as usual ;) ).
Likewise, (Cat)erpillar, and Hitachi sumitomo are more familiar cranes to be found in the seaport. :)

[Magnus]

I wouldn´t say that the japanese are taking over as much as they used to do. For example the huge Emma maersk, and its coming sisters, are built in Denmark. Kato mobile-cranes have during recent years suffered tremedous losses of the market to steady growing firms like german Liebherr.
When it come sto building cheap quality cars, few are as good as teh japanese, at the same time though I would never buy one, because I think they feel artificial (aren´t all cars?) and very plastic. And it will never break down either so you never get a reason to trade it for a proper car...

[leopard]

Maersk Sealand is now the biggest intermodal company as it is the result of merger of giant company Maersk Line, Sealand, and Nedlloyd. Their performance is more integral strategy to take the lead.

Quality of japanese stuff is quite representative, they produce eligible quality but also sellable car, why would we produce distinctive quality if it has sluggish market.
Currently it might depend on the region where do we live to conclude which product has the biggest market-share in our region. Those have bigger demand usually have stable market price, it will not give us too much loss once we decide to re-sell it to buy the new ones.

To those have fanaticism on quality and do not really care about market price might chose something mostly people didn't chose. As long as you can afford the price and its calculated risk, it shouldn't be a problemo.

[tsarcasm]

holy*****

thats a massive motor!!!!! cool 100,000bhp, will it fit on a car