Re: Re: Biggest engine you've ever heard of

Posted by G-MAN on May 18, 2004 at 07:56:42 from (67.52.48.10):

In Reply to: Re: Biggest engine you've ever heard of posted by Scotty on May 18, 2004 at 02:19:46:

The biggest one I've ever heard of is the monster marine diesel that TimV posted the link to below. I don't see internal combustion engines getting much bigger than that, steam is a different animal and a different story. The biggest engine I've ever personally seen and put hands on is at the Crete, NE municipal power plant - a Cooper-Bessemer V-20 if I remember correctly - 83,000 cubic inches and 7770 hp at something like 400 rpm. They had the inspection panels off once when we were there, and you could see inside the crankcase - the connecting rods were the size of full-grown men or bigger. Something like 1200 gallons of oil capacity, etc. As big and powerful as it was, the guy told us that unless it was precisely phased when being brought into provide additional power to the grid they were on, the higher power on the grid could stop it dead in it's tracks and basically blow it to pieces. Not a pretty picture. They also had several ancient Fairbanks-Morse Opposed-Piston engines and several other models, all still in perfect working condition and ready to run at a moments notice. Probably 10 or 12 big engines all told, but the C-B is definitely the monster of the bunch.

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