World's largest reciprocating engine - video and photos

[PJs]

PJs,
The fuel consumption is a bit hard for me to visualize lol. Its definitely mind blowing to-say-the-least. Thanks for sharing your mathematical genius!!

Me too, I woke up thinking about it. Basically its around 0.004 MPG or 21.243 Ft/Gal. I based it on a one way trip from Hong Kong to LA (shipping distance 6377mi.) and the gallons/day value divided by 24hrs and the guestimated 20 day trip. The other value that is interesting is the Mass of fuel injected per cylinder per cycle ~160 g (about 6.5 ounces) @ full load from above equates to about .8 cup of fuel per cylinder per cycle under full load. Not much at ~80 RPM (~4gal/minute).

If one considers it carrying 170,794 GT (341,588,000 lbs) in the Emma Mærsk it's pretty impressive, like a meat bee I saw yesterday pick up and carry off a moth at least twice its size...and they aren't even supposed to be able to fly! This would be the Hulk bee picking up a sky scraper and flying off with it.

The more I look at the pictures of the block, cranks and piston it make me wonder what kind of machines and People did that work...and I want one of those Turbo's.

PJ