Marine Engineering

This book is intended to cover the technical description of pumps as well as pumping stations used in liquid transporting pipelines. It will be a good working guide for technicians and engineers dealing with centrifugal pumps in oil, water, petroleum, water and process industries.

You will be introduced to the pumps theory and how these pumps are applied to different practical situations using various examples of simulations without any deep and extensive math analysis. Among the most important topics covered there are pump performance, pressure loss through piping systems, liquid properties vs pump performance, pump economics and applications, and others.

In his book the author, Shashi Menon, discusses various technical aspects of pump application that are used in the piping arrangement for transportation of liquids. The book gives some introduction to the theory of pumps and pump systems and shows the readers how pumps are usually applied to the numerous practical situations - the theoretical part of the book is supplemented with some informative examples and is free of any too extensive mathematical analysis that would make the book much more difficult to read and understand.

One of the main advantages of a question-and-answer approach used by the author of this book, was the focusing of the attention of th readers on the specific point facilitating learning the answer more quickly, as the mind of the reader is not yet cluttered with much unrelated information.

The publication is aimed to the newcomers to the industry, i.e. people having only few years of technical experience in design and operation of the heat exchangers, and will also be very helpful to students taking the design courses, to prepare for the examinations and find answers to more than a thousand of questions.

However, it is not the right choice for the experts in this field, though they could also use this book to review the information and refresh their knowledge. The material presented in the book is quite self-explanatory and self-contained, making the book so easy to read.

The book has been arranged in fifteen chapters covering shell-and-tube heat exchangers - general information and process design with and without phase change, augmented surface heat exchangers, heat exchangers designed for special services, plate and spiral plate exchangers, dynamics and optimization of the heat exchangers, applicable standards and codes, mechanical design issues and other important aspects.

The useful and practical guidance prepared by the recognized industry professional Ross McKay, who specializes in assisting the industrial companies in reducing both running operating as well as maintenance costs relating to the pumping arrangements and systems, and intended to provide all interested readers with a solid engineering practices related to the pumping systems as well as the useful troubleshooting and pump diagnostics reference.

The publication shall definitely be considered a very practical account of pumping arrangement, seals and pipes - it starts with the basics and presents all required technical information presented in quite accessible way, and it covers nearly all aspects of the whole pumping process and describing what exactly could go wrong. It will be very useful to the people including students and workers of the industry who are willing to improve their knowledge and proper understanding of the construction of pumps together with their working principles in order to minimize the failures that might happen to the equipment in question and reduce the associated time-out.

The book comprises of chapters addressing the centrifugal pumps, pump and system hydraulics, selection and purchasing of the pumps, sealing of the stuffing box, suction condition, bearings, special applications of the pumps etc., covering all relevant aspects.​

An excellent guidance to the provisions of the ASME Code. The publication was written by Robert Chuse to assist people who have to apply the ASME Code in their everyday work. Since the very first release of the Code in 1925 it served as very important reference tool design for the designers and manufacturers of the pressure vessels.

The specifications that are contained in the ASME Code are governing all types of the unfired pressure vessels. The new edition of the Code contains a huge amount of newly added information. The present publication is intended to pose some specific problems and assists people in finding the information they need. It will also make the application of the subject Code more understandable; the book is also indicating the designs and construction materials that require precautions.

The author of this volume strongly hopes that his work will help readers and users of the ASME Code in clarifying their understanding of the Code, encouraging them to take all required precautions when dealing with the order, design and fabrication plus inspection of the pressure vessels covered by the Code. It also includes the data required to answer the numerous question that are asked by the makers of the pressure vessels on quite frequent basis.​

This nice textbook dedicated to the two-stroke engines was specifically prepared by the long-time professional mechanic and one of the world-popular and best-selling authors Paul Dempsey, who tried to provide all interested readers including mechanics, maintenance team members, operators and students with the good reference source that would show them how to fix the diesel engines.

The text part of this publication is supplemented with the numerous detailed drawings and sketches, schemes and images along with the easily understandable instructions making it much easier to get any job related to the engines done quicker. The readers will get a proper and thorough understanding on how to perform the troubleshooting of these engines, in order to be able to determine the source of any problem that may occur, how to conduct the repair works on the magnetos and solid state systems, and how to properly adjust/repair the associated equipment.

There are valuable instructions on fabrication of the crankcase pressure testers, rewinding stators of any type, working with the chains, v-belts, clutches and converters of torque. The tips on the overhauling of such engines including replacement of the crankshaft seals, pistons, rings and main bearings are also there readily available for the interested readers...

Generally speaking, slow steaming is a process of deliberately reducing the ship's speed with the purpose of cutting down fuel oil consumption as well as carbon emissions to the atmosphere. This Guide prepared by MarineInsight team is aimed to help the marine engineers and actually all persons who are dealing with the engine part of the vessel.

Its chapters tell the readers what exactly the slow steaming is and what its benefits are, provides some brief history, explain why marine engineers are concerned, show how to test the main engines for slow steaming, describes the process of optimization of the marine diesel engines, and different types of slow steaming having to perform the modification of the engine itself.

In addition, precautions and checks for slow steaming are provided at the end of the book, together with the list of additional references. This publication will be very useful to marine engineers since it is completely dedicated to the slow steaming, and you know there are not too many publications that would address the same matter available today.

Subject technique has been already adopted by numerous shipping companies doing their best to survive in the today's conditions of rising fuel oil costs and financial recession making all participants of the shipping industry pay greater attention to the effectiveness and cost saving.

A great one-stop essential reference source designed and released for the engineers who are involved in the fields of naval architecture/marine engineering. In his publication, the author brought together the valuable inputs done by a number of the world recognized industry experts in order to prepare an inclusive volume aimed to a very wide audience made of the marine engineers and naval architects as well as all other people involved in various operations, related to this field.

The book covers the key aspects of ship design, construction and further operation - for example, stability and flotation of the vessel, ship strength, ship structures, vessel propulsion, seakeeping, ship handling and maneuvering and all other areas considered important. It explores the maritime safety as well as all matters of the marine environment protection.

Moreover, the new technologies have also been dealt with in the pages of this reference book - it covers the construction and operation of the ROVs (i.e. remotely operated vehicles) that are nowadays used for the underwater inspection of the structures, and also the application of the computer systems in the ship design process. It provides a remarkably comprehensive technical overview made by the best-selling and popular authors and addresses the key facts and figures.

The recent adoption of steam turbine technology has been very rapid and is of truly great importance to the industry. Nowadays, the steam turbines are widely used and have proven effective. The present publication was prepared specifically for the practical technical specialists in order to furnish them all with the required information; it is actually intended to give the operating engineers, managers and superintendents with the guidance they would need to satisfactorily perform their everyday work.

The main aim of the author was to cover the topics related to the general classes of steam turbines, namely those where the specialist has to be familiar in order to insure economic and, of course, safe operation of the steam turbines, and those a thorough understanding of which will be required for the specialist to make a proper choice when dealing with the ordering of the equipment. Some of the theoretical information is given in the book, to let readers get a sound technical understanding of the general principles of operation of the steam turbines.

Note that the book does not address the design of the steam turbines. The readers are not expected to have a serious technical or scientific background but some working knowledge of the mathematics would be required.