1,800 Hp V-16 Cummins

Benjie

Benjie

It's a Toyota thing...
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Found two of these gems in a plant I was visiting the other day. They are hooked to a generator. Each one had 8 batteries to crank it. Also, each bank of 8 cylinders had 2 turbos. It was pretty neat. The first picture is just one side of the engine. You can see the top of the other one is one of the pics.

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mysterync said:
What kind of plant? Pretty neat that's for sure
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It is a huge plant that produces common food found in grocery stores. Obviously, I can't give out the name...
 
This is what I sell and design everyday. Those are nice, but not huge.
They should be early 80s as they are beige...before and after should be green.

Let me dig up some pics and I'll share. BTW why would you not be able to disclose the name, seems weird?

oh of it had 8 batteries it is a redundant system. Those units should take (4) 8D's... but its not unheard of to put in two battery banks and a switcher JIC
 
Pretty cool. If it was in or around raliegh, I'd say the slim jim plant. Just a guess...
 
Ron said:
This is what I sell and design everyday. Those are nice, but not huge.
They should be early 80s as they are beige...before and after should be green.

Let me dig up some pics and I'll share. BTW why would you not be able to disclose the name, seems weird?

oh of it had 8 batteries it is a redundant system. Those units should take (4) 8D's... but its not unheard of to put in two battery banks and a switcher JIC
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Ron, that's awesome that you work with these. They are vintage 80's I think. I don't want to tell who it is because we signed a non-disclosure blah blah. I was not there to work on these, just walked by them and thought about the NC4x4 crowd. I wish I could have heard them run!





criket said:
Pretty cool. If it was in or around raliegh, I'd say the slim jim plant. Just a guess...
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Not in Raleigh. But in NC!
 
kw?
 
Ok as promised here are a few pics.
First a similar unit circa ~2006-07
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Next a few of a slightly larger unit. This time in a 60Liter package producing 2000kW Continuous Per machine. This is 3 machine electrically paralleled for a total of 6,000 ekW in this picture (since upgraded to 8 eMW)
These are 08 models
This particular project won numerous national awards from its industry peers (healthcare), PowerGen Industry Insiders, and an AIA award.
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Now a few of a 2011 60 Liter Flying in to place and then getting an enclsoure slid over
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And finally the absolute coolest project I have ever been involed in. These are a pair of smaller (600eKw) units inside a locomotive car. The customer is a bit obvious. The tight space and need to run truly Continuous in climates ranging from Death Valley in summer to Fargo in December at speeds approaching 100mph presented numerous challenges.
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Jeff that is likely a 1,000eKw or 1250 eKw.
They also need a nw maintenance plan, those oil filters will present major problems on that engine.
 
the rail car looks familiar.
 
Jeff B said:
the rail car looks familiar.
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it is completely built in Florida. To preseve the look they use only 30's model cars...well those don't exist aymore so there are literally thousnads of sheet metal hours in reuilding the outside, and this new design required the penthouse on top of the car. With their uage they expct 5 years out of a car before it is totally rebuilt. Really, reall neat customer.
Nothing wins you dad of the year like getting the kids center ring introduced to a crowd ;)
 
OK, Ron wins. He sunk my battleship...

Ron, those pics are awesome. Who do you work for?
 
cool. The biggest (Cummins) engine we deal with is the 15L sub-600hp ISX, single turbo inline-6. They're red, use 3 or 4x 12V batteries.
 
Benjie said:
OK, Ron wins. He sunk my battleship...

Ron, those pics are awesome. Who do you work for?
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I took everyone of those pics except the big train car picture. That was taken by a professional photographer to document my design...

As for my employer, I'll give you a hint...the name appears in the photos I posted at least 17 times....

VortecJeep said:
Our emergency diesels where I work start on compressed air.
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Yep that is an option. The pros are you dont have batteries to maintain, the cons are you have air hoses, compressors and such to maintain. We offer both.


RenegadeT said:
cool. The biggest (Cummins) engine we deal with is the 15L sub-600hp ISX, single turbo inline-6. They're red, use 3 or 4x 12V batteries.
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All Cummins engines are red now, except power gen. 15L should be a 24V system so batts should be series for voltage and possibly par. as well for increased ampacity.

Who do you work for? I thought you were a design consultant engineer? PM or text if you dont want to publish...

Dylan W. said:
Ron...that train just rolled into Greensboro.
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Yep there are 6 of these nationally and that is actually this car that is in G'boro. Its the only CPG powered one the remainder are CAT...but I have the contract to convert all of them. Actually did the inspection on that car in Charlotte last week.
About 3200 hours year one.
 
Ron said:
...All Cummins engines are red now, except power gen. 15L should be a 24V system so batts should be series for voltage and possibly par. as well for increased ampacity.
Who do you work for? I thought you were a design consultant engineer? PM or text if you dont want to publish...
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Volvo Group Trucks Technology. Over the years, we've got rid of all outsourced engines except the ISX in Volvo VNL highway truck and ISL in Mack Granite MHD construction truck. There is definelty 12 volts going to the engine, maybe something happens once it gets there, dunno.
 
My bad, I thought you were talking a G drive engine.
Yeah in the automotive world, heck there is no telling the starting voltage...Ive seen 12, 18,24,36 and 72 vdc systems
those guys are crazy!
 
Ron said:
As for my employer, I'll give you a hint...the name appears in the photos I posted at least 17 times....
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Ron, viewing from my phone, its hard to see those little stickers in the photos! Talk to your marketing folks and tell them to get with it!
 
I used to work on Boeing 747 Combi's. We had this huge air/huffer to start the engines if the APU layed down. All I remember was it had 2 871 blowers on it being fed by 2 monster turbos. This all turned a huge compressor, anyway, we had a "line shack" we waited on the plane in - typical double wide trailer unit - The huffer broke loose from the tug one day and knocked the trailer sideways off it's blocks. There was at least 15 people inside, man it was awesome! Another thing is you didn't get near those airlines when the start valve opened. This 74 had the old Pratt's on it.
 
NCDieselWrench said:
Cummins just released a new 4000hp 95l v-16,and are about to release the 5000hp 120l v-20 here is a link to a new promotion video they just did
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLP-YMUHPTI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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I gotta admit, the day I got the k95 in solid works....I got nothing done but tearing that bitch apart layer by layer....a remarkable machine.
The C5000 platform, well that is going to revolutionize the powergen industry...thats gonna suck to sale, lol....
 
Idk who builds them or what you consider them, guess just a regular gas engine. They ran of natural gas. We toured the natural gas pipe line boost station down in lexington. The engines were the largest I have every seen. 16 cyl I think, a head per cyl. Pistons were the size of 55 gallon drums, connecting rods the size of, well, big enough to throw a piston the size of a drum around. The turbos outside could be used as a jungle gym for fairly large kids, the radiators were small buildings. And the mufflers were like silos. They had a crane to change the oil filters it was outrageous.


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