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Modern Marine Internal Combustion Engines

A Technical and Historical Overview

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This book offers a comprehensive and timely overview of internal combustion engines for use in marine environments. It reviews the development of modern four-stroke marine engines, gas and gas–diesel engines and low-speed two-stroke crosshead engines, describing their application areas and providing readers with a useful snapshot of their technical features, e.g. their dimensions, weights, cylinder arrangements, cylinder capabilities, rotation speeds, and exhaust gas temperatures. For each marine engine, information is provided on the manufacturer, historical background, development and technical characteristics of the manufacturer’s most popular models, and detailed drawings of the engine, depicting its main design features.

This book offers a unique, self-contained reference guide for engineers and professionals involved in shipbuilding. At the same time, it is intended to support students at maritime academies and university students in naval architecture/marine engineering with their design projects at both master and graduate levels, thus filling an important gap in the literature.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Chapter 1. Four-Stroke Marine Engines
Abstract
The internal combustion engines operating in the four-stroke cycle are most widely used on all types vessels with different purpose. Mostly, the vessels use medium and high-speed engines of this type, however, a number of Asian manufacturers produce low-speed four-stroke engines which are capable to operate with direct power transmission to the propeller.
Ievgen Bilousov, Mykola Bulgakov, Volodymyr Savchuk
Chapter 2. Gas and Gas Diesel Four-Stroke Marine Engines
Abstract
According to Lloyd’s Marine Intelligence experts, the world merchant fleet as for 2018 has more than 50,000 vessels with a total carrying capacity of about 1.4 billion tons, which carry about 75% of the goods, transported all over the world. The part of harmful emissions from ship power plants into the atmosphere is relatively not high and does not exceed 5–7%. However, the requirements for the environmental performance of marine diesel engines are becoming more stringent from year to year. This is explained by the large aggregate capacity, which in some cases already exceeds 100 MW. Thus, in areas of intensive navigation, air pollution can reach critical values.
Ievgen Bilousov, Mykola Bulgakov, Volodymyr Savchuk
Chapter 3. Two-Stroke Ship Low-Speed Crosshead Engines
Abstract
Since its introduction in 1897, diesel engines have been operating in a four-stroke cycle. At the same time, at the time of the invention of his engine by Rudolf Diesel, two-stroke engines have already received some distribution for small-sized power plants.
Ievgen Bilousov, Mykola Bulgakov, Volodymyr Savchuk
Chapter 4. Gas-Diesel Two-Stroke Ship Low-Speed Engines
Abstract
The constant rise in prices for petroleum fuels and the tightening of environmental requirements.
Ievgen Bilousov, Mykola Bulgakov, Volodymyr Savchuk
Metadata
Title
Modern Marine Internal Combustion Engines
Authors
Ievgen Bilousov
Mykola Bulgakov
Volodymyr Savchuk
Copyright Year
2020
Electronic ISBN
978-3-030-49749-1
Print ISBN
978-3-030-49748-4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49749-1

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