comprised of several thousand separate parts the turbochargers are responsible for a huge increase in the performance of the marine diesel engine every year fitter Tobias Haider assembles 25 such turbochargers for series 8000 engines the purpose of the turbocharger is to increase the oxygen content of the combustion chamber this is the intake for the exhaust gases here we have the blade wheel which can rotate here exhaust gases flow out again and on this side drive the blade wheel this is where the air is then drawn in here it is