Most powerful internal combustion engine?

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  1. Diode-Man

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    What is the most powerful internal combustion engine? Would it happen to be a power generator?
     
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    Er, internal combustion engine?

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    How about the 108,920 hp RTA96C-14?
     
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    There are some massive ship engines with cylinders big enough to climb into.
     
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    Very interesting... what if they were to replace those with a rotary engine? I think it would be 3 times as economical!
     
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    Rotary engines are not very efficient.
     
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    All of you are wrong.

    The Wartsila-Sulser is the largest and most powerful.

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    That definetly concludes this thread

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    From your link: "The 12 cylinder version weighs in at 2000 metric tons and delivers 90,000 Horsepower"

    So 90,000 is a higher number than 108,920?
    How odd...

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    They are the same engines. . . I think.

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    The image there is the same as the image in the "90,000" hp unit.
     
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    Engine size is the displacement, measured in cubic inches in America, liters or cc's everywhere else. Horsepower is the measure of power output, not size.

    Displacement is the difference between the volume of the cylinder with the piston at the bottom of its stroke and at the top of its stroke. It's the quantity of fuel-air mixture that is sucked into the cylinder, compressed on the upstroke and ignited, to create the explosion that drives the piston back down to the bottom of its stroke.

    Of course, displacement is the single measure of an engine that correlates most closely with its power output. A 4.5 liter Mercedes-Benz engine is going to produce approximately 50% more power than the 3.0 liter engine.

    Nonetheless, it's quite common in automotive engineering for two engines to have similar displacement or "size," yet one produces significantly more power. This is due to other factors besides engine size: smaller but more numerous cylinders, higher rpm, sportier cam, higher compression requiring higher-octane fuel, turbocharger, more effective carburetion or fuel injection, etc.

    Obviously the same is true of these gigantic ship engines, so the engine that delivers 10% more power can easily be the smaller of the two.
     
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    Technically yes. Also gas turbines and jet engines.
     
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    That baby gets pretty good milage:
    The Mathematical calculation: 1,660 gallons/per hour = 39.5 barrels of crude oil/used per hour = $2,844. These figures are worked out from the basis of crude oil @ $72 a barrel*.

    $2,844 every hour the engine runs or 27.6 gallons, which is $46.00 every minute or 76 cents a second! That is, of course, if the ships buy oil at trade price...if not, then these figures are the absolute minimum. ( * at time of publishing )
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    Yes, but the OP asks what is the most powerful i.e. output, not size...

    Damn, they are the same engine!
     
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    let me get this right you are inquiring on the MOST POWERFUL ICE?

    Well to play this game the way this site does, then i will post the definition

    then man....mankind, life; is the MOST POWERFUL....



    ie..... mankind created the space shuttle and nuclear weapons.......... all internally thought up!


    then it (mankind) can reproduced itself too



    kind of cool
     
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