Cruise Ship Crankshaft

These are used in ships like tankers bulk carriers and container ships.

Cruise ship crankshaft. All marine vessels such as fast ferries cruises RoRo vessels etc. The main difference is that instead of the engine and pistons being connected directly to the crankshaft and propellers it is connected to a generator to generate electricity. Watch ALE Heavylift performing a crankshaft exchange on ms Zaandam in Uruguay.

Most new cruise ships use diesel-electric engines. The ships old crankshaft was replaced with a new one weighing 75 tons via jacking and skidding techniques. Some were well cared for and some were pretty much ignored as far as keeping them clean went.

The new crankshaft is seven meters long and weighs 12 tons the cruise line said and replaces what TUI called a defective crankshaft. The old crankshaft was damaged so needed to be exchanged and refurbished. The unique grid design of cruise ships.

First proposed in 2019 the new state-of-the-art terminal is projected to cost 125 million to build and when completed it will provide a terminal to handle the worlds largest cruise ships. In-Situ machining and annealing salvage sulzer 12 ZAV 40S crankshaft. On the other end propeller is fitted which pushes water and hence moves the ship.

I hope this gave a small peek into some of the challenges of the shipping industry. Some of the basic engine components are Cylinder head Block Inlet valves Fuel lift pump Camshaft Flywheel Turbo charger Crankshaft Air cleaner Cylinder liners Lubricating oil pump Alternator and more. One V8 engine that had somewhere around a 24 piston was on its second since I hired in rebuild and someone screwed up on the oil system and it ended up with a dry start and killed the crank.

Crankshaft exchange on the cruise ship. 15 Metric Ton No of main engines. Modern cruise ships tend to use medium speed 4-stroke trunk engines to drive alternators which provide power to electrically driven propulsion units.