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> will burn about 30 liters of bunker fuel.. to travel 1 meter That's either a typo or a thinko. 30 litres per metre would be 30,000 litres (a guess; 25 tons?)
by tempguy9999 7y ago
> will burn about 30 liters of bunker fuel.. to travel 1 meter
That's either a typo or a thinko. 30 litres per metre would be 30,000 litres (a guess; 25 tons?) of bunker per kilometre.
From your own link "These mammoth engines [of the emma maersk] consume approx 16 tons of fuel per hour or 380 tons per day while at sea."
I don't have time to work it out but 30 litres per KM would be less wrong anyway.
- dagw 7y agoPoking around I found the numbers 6300 liters pr hour at ~20 knots for optimal fuel consumption and 13600 liters pr hour at 31 knots at full engines. That breaks down to 170 liters per km optimally or 237 liters per km at full engines.
- dredmorbius 7y agoI get 90 feet per gallon, or 7.4 meters/liter. Based on 1660 gallons fuel/hr at 25 knots. That's 136 liters/km, or 57 gallons/mile. And it's moving 157,000 tons (DWT).