Published: September 2024
This third edition of a three-part book on diesel engines is intended for all who work with diesel engines for maritime propulsion and power generation:
- Maritime training institutes and maritime universities
- Maintenance and reconditioning companies
- Shipping companies deep-sea, inland, towage, dredging and heavy-load cargo
- Insurance companies, classification bureaus, surveyors
- Shipping industry suppliers, suppliers of engine parts, fuel and lubricating oil
- Engine manufacturers and dealers
- Power Plants
The three volumes consist of Book I Principles, Book II Engine systems and environment and Book III Operation and maintenance.
When compiling this book, a practical approach was chosen using ample authentic graphic material with detailed explanations allowing the reader to gather pertinent information without laboriously going through the main text. Important subjects: common-rail systems, emissions, materials, casting and forging of parts, vibrations, propellers, fuel problems, dual-fuel engines, reconditioning, regulations for testing diesel engines.
Leading companies and institutes have contributed to the realisation of this book by providing information, photographs and interviews. Ninety per cent of the more than 2700 pictures are in colour.
Table of Contents
Book I: Principles
1. The use of industrial diesel engines
2. Classification of diesel engines
3. Working principles of diesel engines
4. Efficiency and losses of diesel engines
5. Standard figures of various types of diesel engines
6. Construction of various types of diesel engines
7. Driving gears
8. Fuel, fuel-line systems and fuel cleaning
9. Fuel-injection systems
10. Calculating fuel- and lubricating- oil consumption
11. New fuel developments
12. Speed control
13. Diesel engine starting systems
14. Engine noise: origin and damping
15. Vibration and balancing
Book II: Engine systems and environment
16. Air Supply
17. Cooling of gas-, dual-fuel- and diesel engines
18. Lubrication of engines
19. Endoscopy and measurements
20. Diesel-Power Plants
21. Operational management and automation
22. Auxiliary systems: fuel- and lubricating-oil separators
23. Transmission gears, flexible couplings, vibration dampers, shafting and shaft generator drives
24. Emissions in gas-, dual-fuel- and diesel engines
25. Bedplates and engine alignments, gearboxes, shafts, propeller shafts and generators
Book III: Operation and Maintenance
26. Diesel-engine manufacturers
27. Ship propulsion
28. Propellers
29. Use of materials for diesel engines
30. Casting, forging and welding engine parts
31. Reconditioning engines and their parts
32. Maintenance and repairs
33. Regulations for propulsion engines, classification, repair and damage
