Starting Wärtsilä 6 L 64

[sjem618]

Zijn dat soms brandstofpompen met begin en eindregeling?

[66R0]

i visited wärtsilä´s factory today at Vaasa, Finland ;);)

[NesteHukka2]

What is that alarm for? Not enough oil pressure yet?

[bufaya]

MAN and Wartsila copys a lot from the other the injection is build at MAN by their own Wartsila uses Injection from supliers

[matgonjinn]

How'd you be if that beast threw a rod. You wouldn't be having kids that's for sure.

[bufaya]

oops i mean heavy fuel oil Engine

[bufaya]

The Injectionpumps and Inj. Valves build by L'Orange Co. in Germany

This is one of the largest 4 Stroker Diesels in the World

[tupsumato]

@bufaya, yeah. I don't think anyone produces a bigger medium-speed engine than the Wärtsilä 64. Someone should order the proposed 18-cylinder version just to get the most powerful 4-stroke engine in the world ;)

[TheChiefEngineer]

@tupsumato MAN produce a more powerful 4-stroke.

[tupsumato]

@TheChiefEngineer, which one? According to their website the most powerful 4-stroke medium-speed engines are just a bit over 20 MW (18V 48/60B) while the 18-cylinder Wärtsilä 64 would've been almost 35 MW. Too bad it was never built.

[tupsumato]

@TheChiefEngineer, but then again you might be correct considering the fact that the more powerful Wärtsilä engines were never produced or installed to a ship (the single prototype 12V64 that was built for a power plant produced 23 MW, being slightly powerful than the biggest MAN I mentioned in the previous post). 8L64 is just 17.2 MW and I'm not sure if it has never been produced either. 16V46, which is commonly used, is just 16 MW.

On the other hand have those MANs ever been actually built?

[totojpx]

this is not an electric generator

[karrpoff]

how low rpm's is the engine running at 0:30 ?

[charmand79]

I'd guess around 100-150 rpm...

[hanes1995]

ah ha

[Aussie50]

What an epic sound!, I love it!!!

[NOBOX7]

i would love to be the gie who runns this thing,im addicted to oiling things you know,lol ,to me i can feel the damage being done the machine is inside of my mind i can see the parts and sence the vibrations in my mind ,thanks for the vid

[krehall]

Wait until your 6 hour shift is up and your ears go numb through all the loud noise xD

Even with ear protection you can still hear it ringing in your ears.

[Aussie50]

I can well imagine!

[zonderkoolzuur]

Mooi filmpje, maar wat voor alarm hoor ik steeds?

[totojpx]

state of the art generator

[krehall]

Actually this is the main propulsion engine for the ship. The generating sets are considerably smaller. And also have 12 to 14 cylinders.

[tezskanza]

1, 2, 3,1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3,...

I love it.

[jactop285]

Hey Jorg,

Nice to see me back as the ch. eng. there on board. It still sounds good to me and as I've seen in the reactions, that counts for a lot of guys :)

Have fun!!

[Nervotest]

I think Wartsila L 64 is the only 4 stk to be provided with 2 fuel injection plungers so 2 fuel cams! One plunger (shape) is FS/VE and and the other one is VS/FE...

[TheChiefEngineer]

@Nervotest It's the only split pump I've ever come across so far.  It's a brilliant idea.

[lordtaw]

These engines are amazing. Biggest I have worked on are Mack diesel engines. I hear they have a sliding cam shaft with 2 sets of lobes, one for forward and one for reverse. So when you want to reverse you stop the engine slide the cam and it runs backwards.

[douro20]

Washington Estep diesels also had a switching cam to reverse them.

[LOLICONE]

Usually you get ships with KMW variable pitch controls for the prop. I've never worked on one with a switching cam though.

[ramawson]

what was that warning sound that kept coming on?

[krhall78]

indicating low coolant pressure. Takes about 30 seconds to 1 minute for the coolant pumps to build up the pressure in the primary collant system. Not sure if it the same on this type of engine. When we start up one of these engines there are several readings we need to watch carefully. Colland pressure, exaust gas temperature/pressure, fuel pressure, before starting we need to perform a silent blow.

[krhall78]

cooland = coolant <-- my bad spelling Grr

Silent blow is important so we dont get a hydraulic lock on 1 or more cylinders (silent blow removes condensation from inside the cylinders)

[ramawson]

oh ok

[ramawson]

also do you need to watch exaust gas tempriture/pressure so it dont melt or blow up or somthing?

[krhall78]

the exhaust gas powers the exhaust gas turbine, so yep. And the exhaust gas turbine powers the compressor for the turbocharger. Duno if it is the same with this engine though, there are many different types of marine engines out there. Exhaust gas temperature and pressure is not a problem and is easily regulated.

[ramawson]

oh cool sorta like a helicopter engine a bit :/

[krhall78]

possibly, but on a much larger scale.

[Gounakias]

Warstilla is the better marine engine in the world

[rhrenes]

you don't know what is an engine!!!!!

[Aussie50]

I love the sound of a big engine winding up like that!

[Delveaux]

Warstilla's...you've got to love them...

[VideoJunkei]

that moving bar is the throttle control? Does each cylinder have its own carb?

[douro20]

Has no carburetors- this is a diesel engine (duh). This thing was built like a huge ALCO locomotive engine, with separate pumps for each cylinder. The long rod moving rod is called the rack and levers on the rack control the fuel output of the pumps by moving toothed pilot rods in and out of them. The engine, being a modern one, is electronically governed, and so the rack is operated by a large stepper motor.

[douro20]

The large green tubes between the injection pumps are for the pushrods which operate the valves; I'd imagine this is a reasonably old engine because it still has these pushrods in it; most prime movers nowadays have hydraulically operated valves which are operated under computer control without cams.

[douro20]

It's four-stroke, isn't it? And I'd imagine those injection pumps are over six feet tall.

[krhall78]

these engines stand about 40 feet high and go through 3 decks. :D

Much lager than any engine i have ever worked on. Largest i worked on was a V16 Diesel.

[Jthumper]

pictures of engines like this one being built can be found by google search of: Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C

[tpvalley]

This is small compared to that rta96-c, 108,000bhp!

crank weighs over 300 tons on that!!

around 500,000 lb/ft of torque, or if ur jeremy clarkson 500,000 torques (twat!!!)

[scott93257]

That's the largest two stroke diesel ever made. This is the largest four stroke

[cazzaballe]

That's wrong. The biggest engine ever built was the GMT 1060

[scott93257]

my bad...you're right... Never seen a GMT just googled it

[krhall78]

not anymore xD

The next generation Maersk class vessels will have the largest. Not 100% sure but i think it is the Wartsilla D98C 93,000hp.

[BunEButler]

Right, because Jeremy Clarkson actually does think that torque's unit of measure is the "torque." Twat!!!!1111

[tpvalley]

yes its got a hundred torques- he might be talking about his microphone head curly perm!!

[Jthumper]

I dont think people viewing this have any idea at how large this engine is, lets just say it takes climbing 3 flights of stairs to reach the valve covers.

[jorgvandooren]

ja idd, startluch ± 30 bar

[MasterFire84]

Lucht-gestart?

[bornagaindaemon]

Great, this is art to me

[jorgvandooren]

Thats right, fuel and timing rack

[TheChiefEngineer]

I love the split pump design, its probably one of the best out there.

[enginemasterbuilder]

thats the fuel rack

[Wiffrain]

fancy pushrods

[vedbil]

Nice sound!

[Frankderuyter]

Vette motors die langzaamlopers!

Wij hebben er ook een in het schip staan...maar die is iets kleiner

groetjes

[Archatos]

I'm working for Wartsila at the moment (nothing with engines though) but I'm very interested in these kind of engines.

Do you have more of these videos? :)

[jorgvandooren]

Hi,

I was for the first time on board as apprentice. I don´t have any others, sorry. This summer I will go to sea again on another vessel, with another Warstila engine so then I can shoot a video again.

Thank you for your comment.

Best regards,

Jorg