Straight-fourteen engine explained

A straight-14 engine or inline-14 engine is a fourteen-cylinder piston engine with all fourteen cylinders mounted in a straight line along the crankcase. This design results in a very long engine, therefore it has only been used as marine propulsion engines in large ships.

The only straight-14 engine known to reach production is part of the Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C family of 6-cylinder to 14-cylinder two-stroke marine engines. This engine is used in the Emma Mærsk, which was the world's largest container ship when it was built in 2006. The engine produces and displaces, has a bore of and a stroke of . The engine is long, high and weighs .[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: RTA-C Technology Review . Wärtsilä . 2004 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20051226062109/http://www.wartsila.com/Wartsila/docs/en/ship_power/media_publications/brochures/product/engines/rtac_tr.pdf . December 26, 2005.