
A straight-seven engine or inline-seven engine is a
straight engine with seven
cylinder
A cylinder (from ) has traditionally been a three-dimensional solid, one of the most basic of curvilinear geometric shapes. In elementary geometry, it is considered a prism with a circle as its base.
A cylinder may also be defined as an infi ...
s. It is more common in
marine applications because these engines are usually based on a modular design, with individual heads per cylinder.
Marine engines
Straight-seven engines produced for marine usage include:
*
Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C
The Wärtsilä RT-flex96C is a two-stroke turbocharged low-speed diesel engine designed by the Finnish manufacturer Wärtsilä. It is designed for large container ships that run on heavy fuel oil. Its largest 14-cylinder version is 13.5 meter ...
two-stroke
crosshead
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diesel engine
* Wärtsilä 32
trunk piston
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engines
* ''MAN Diesel IMO'' two-stroke crosshead diesel engine
* ''Burmeister & Wain 722VU37'' two-stroke diesel engine (commenced 1937, used in the Danish ''Havmanden-class'' submarines
* ''Sulzer 7QD42'' diesel engine (1939-1940, used in the Dutch
O 21-class submarines).
Land use
The ''AGCO Sisu'' is a straight-seven diesel engine that was released in 2008. Intended for farming machinery, the engine shares various components with the company's straight-six engine.
References
Straight-07
Seven-cylinder engines
Straight-07
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