Diesel Engines for Ship Propulsion and Power Plants

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