What the!

[Venatus 2]

Just doing a random google search on e36, just wanting to read the wikipedia page on them.

Anyway, one of the 3 image results was this image, it was someones sig on a random forum, so there wasnt an explanation.

Just wondering if anyone knows that the hell this is from?

Im guessing its off a diesel engine for a ship, but Im probably wrong.

[Yuen 16]

Yeah I've seen a pic of a ship's turbo bigger than that

[bimmer boy 21]

Thats the same size as the turbo in my E30

[Greg111 13]

Thats the same size as the turbo in my E30

So lots of lag then

[Foohey 0]

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[Venatus 2]

So lots of lag then

Haha yeah it would probably take 7000rpm to start the damn thing rotating...

And the even bigger turbo from Foohey is awesome

Edited March 18, 2008 by Ven

[Nobimmer 694]

F**k no more like 70000RPM

[ducatiss 1]

Possibly off a large diesel generator. Friend of mine has a huge diesel engine on their orchard that just drives a pump for irrigation all night long - the manifolds glow red hot!

[SKT174 1]

[318isCoupe 0]

The turbo's I've seen on even smallish container ships in Tauranga (~1800-2000TEU) are roughly that size, the bigger ships (~4000-10,000TEU) would be a few times that size.

[pjay 8]

Thats off a traiiiin.. but: thats not a turbo.. this is a turbo!

Turbo Systems United (TSU), an affiliate company, started to sell TPL91-B, the largest turbocharger in the world for marine diesel engines, in October 2004.

Thread here:

http://forums.nzicemag.co.nz/viewtopic.php?t=19329

Edited April 14, 2008 by Pjay

[Greg111 13]

f**k you wouldn't want to be walking past one as it's spooling!

[318isCoupe 0]

Thats off a traiiiin.. but: thats not a turbo.. this is a turbo!

Thread here:

http://forums.nzicemag.co.nz/viewtopic.php?t=19329

TSU makes turbos for IHI I think, that turbo's going on a new series of 8000TEU container ships made by IHIMU in japan anyway. Flow rate of 55 cubic metres/second

[Young Thrash Driver 1020]

TSU makes turbos for IHI I think, that turbo's going on a new series of 8000TEU container ships made by IHIMU in japan anyway. Flow rate of 55 cubic metres/second

Thats a lot of exhaust gasses... just how big is the engine?

[318isCoupe 0]

Thats a lot of exhaust gasses... just how big is the engine?

In this ship, 10 cylinders with a bore of 960mm and a piston stroke of 2500mm, a lot of container ships over 8000TEU that have been built in the last few years have used the same engine (Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96) with a varied number of cylinders and turbochargers. It makes around 6000kw per cylinder, its a two stroke diesel and uses about 150g of fuel per revolution per cylinder (engine only runs at 90-110rpm).

The largest ship MSC runs is 9200TEU's and uses the same engine.

The largest container ship in the world at the moment, the Emma Maersk (12500TEU) uses a 14 cylinder version of the RTA96 and makes ~82mw(the engine weighs 2300 tons!) and can push the 170,000ton, 400m long ship along at about 27 knots /50kph.

Edited April 19, 2008 by Jacobfie