Marine Engineering

First of all, we would like to note that the main of the initially declared objectives of this volume was to prepare the marine engineering students and, actually, learners of any relevant discipline for the COC, i.e. Certificates of Competency. The material that has been included in this book by the author is covering the work that is necessary to pass the examination.

Note, however, that this book is not really intended to serve as a nicely detailed reference book - it should rather be considered a specific examination guidance. Most of the sketches included in the book are mainly intended to serve as the applications to the exam requirements. Obviously, the best way to learn the subject is to read very thoroughly and carefully through each of the chapters of this book, paying particular attention to the sketchwork and drawings, where applicable. Plus, there are several questions located at the end of each chapter helping to control the progress and evaluate your knowledge.

The book has been conveniently arranged in nine major sections that address the construction materials and welding issues, fuel oil technologies, marine boilers, ancillaries, corrosion matters, boiler water treatment and associated tests, steering gear, shafting arrangements, refrigerating installations, both active and passive measures of fire protection, pumps and various pumping systems together with piping, safety matters and procedures etc.

The present guidance has been prepared by CEATI professionals and was specifically aimed at assisting the personnel involved with the implementation of the methods of ensuring energy efficiency and all relevant practices. The main emphasis has been made by the author on the refrigeration systems having a small and medium size.

This publication would also help them to make proper technical decisions relating to the operation and day-to-day maintenance of the existing refrigeration systems; it would even be quite useful when applied to the modification or re-configuration of the subject systems.

The readers will get necessary guidance that is very difficult to obtain in other publications. Various refrigeration systems are characterized in this guide; quick reference on various established techniques of performance optimization is provided; the main procedures of the performance testing have been reviewed. In short, this is a definitely excellent source of information recommended to be used by any persons who are directly involved in any activities that are relating to the refrigeration systems due to the amount of the information contained.

Please note as necessary that the specialists operating and maintaining the refrigeration systems are expected to follow all applicable safety procedures and techniques prior to the commencement of any operations.

This useful textbook on pumping machinery was prepared to cover both theoretical basics and popular practical applications of various pumping machinery and associated arrangements. The key features of the present publication would include a comprehensive coverage of the relevant technical characteristics of various types of pumps, including axial flow, displacement and centrifugal pumps, considering the performance of the pumping machinery and addressing of the common problems of operational type.

In addition to what is stated above, the book is covering several advanced areas of subject technology, including, for example, both two-phase and three-phase flow pumping systems and multi-phase flow principles. Several different methods of flow rate control and the relevance of those methods to the matters of energy consumption and total efficiency of the machinery have also been touched within this volume.

Each of the chapters contains some informative solved examples taken from real life. It is definitely a truly comprehensive reference source that will be very useful for both practicing engineers and researchers in the subject industry, and also for the students of marine, mechanical and other fields of engineering, owing to the huge amount of technical material that has been included in the volume and the quite easy-to read and understandable manner this material has been arranged by the author.​

Remarkably handy textbook to be used as reference source covering common degradation mechanism. It will be very useful for people needing advice on how to determine required actions and prevent both heat and chemical damage, and external corrosion.

This is one of the books forming Field Manual series, intended to give the students and experienced mechanical engineers with the recently developed tools that they could use to make necessary alterations, repair and re-rate of the various pressure vessels in accordance with the applicable ASME, API and NBIC standards and technical codes.

The publication contains nicely detailed step-by-step procedures that describe the process of design of the pressure vessels, together with their in-field inspections and alterations. The readers will get the due understanding of how to properly select the pressure vessel specifications that are necessary, evaluate the associated technical reports and determine the allowable stress.

Moreover, it provides guidance on calculating the stresses that usually occur in the pressure vessels and also covering the issues of the selection of construction materials. We would say that this book is absolutely recommended to all technical personnel involved in the design, construction, installation, operation, periodical maintenance and required repair of the pressure vessels.

Here is a truly comprehensive publication providing both piping designers and engineers with an excellent quick reference guidance to the piping-related calculations as well as standards and technical codes that would apply to the piping systems. This volume combines in one handy book the multitude of numerous piping elements like pipes themselves, flanges, valves, supporting arrangements, bolts, flex and expansion joints making up those complex piping systems.

The author of the book has used so many calculations and practical examples based on his own experience of more than forty years as both the instructor and professional piping engineer. Each of the practical examples included by the author in this volume is demonstrating how different piping-related codes and standards can be applied correctly and incorrectly, so that the readers could see the difference and possible consequences of wrong application. Moreover, apart from providing the advice on the intent of the above mentioned standards and codes, this volume is also intended to provide some valuable guidance on compliance with the requirements listed therein.

The reader will get quite clear understanding of the possible failures occurring to the piping systems and know what the code or standard requires the piping designers, makers, fabricators, suppliers, erectors, examiners, inspectors, and owners to do to prevent the failures...

This old and classic publication on marine engineering has been exclusively prepared and released with the intention of its author, F. G. Marcos, to assist the professional marine engineers who are dealing with the technical review of various relevant subject in the course of the preparation for the government licensure exam that is regularly arranged and conducted by the PRC, standing for the Professional Regulation Commission.

In fact, this volume is a good compilation of various technical solutions to the typical problems that have already been encountered by the people sitting for the recent examinations. In addition, the publication also includes some exercise questions plus an outline to examinees, prepared and aimed to serve as a sort of an instant refresher on the most fundamental technical concepts and principles, in full accordance with the declared scope of the examination usually provided by the Board of Examiners.

It shall also be treated as a complete practical guidance that will be useful to all apprentice cadets, crew of the marine ship and engineers on board, on the recent technological developments to bring the most up-to-date coverage of high standard on the job aboard their ships. The archive consists of the numerous image files in jpeg format, one file per page.

Here is one of the most popular and effective training courses specifically prepared and released by the recognized professionals of the MAN B&W Diesel, who are there among the world leaders in the field of marine engineering. The content of this training course starts with some very general description of ME Engine - in this section a brief historical information has been provided, for instance - the founding of this company, development of the marine engines, diesel chronicle, some brief theoretical information pertaining to the marine diesel engine construction as well as operation and maintenance principles, major technical specifications and nomenclature of the engines, etc.

The second part is dedicated to the ME Concept and contains necessary information on the control systems, tacho systems, performance and maneuvering systems. The following two parts of this course are addressing the Hydraulic Power Supply and Hydraulic Cylinder Units, correspondingly. They are in turn followed by the sections covering the Fuel and Exhaust Systems of the marine diesel engines.

Finally, the last chapters of this training will provide necessary info on the MOP Displays as well as PMI Systems. It goes without saying that this course is highly recommended to the people having any dealing with the marine diesel engines, regardless of their experience and position, i.e. from students to professional marine engineers.

Here is a very good compilation of the articles related to the maritime engineering and maritime technology. There are nine main parts in this book covering such areas as ship control and propulsion, ship design, onboard systems, ship traffic, risk and reliability, ship structures, ship dynamics and hydrodynamics, renewable energy, wave and wind modeling.

For more than twenty-five years, the Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering branch of the Portuguese Association of Engineers and the Centre for Marine Technology and Engineering of the Instituto Superior Tecnico, Technical University of Lisbon, have been organizing national conferences on Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture. Such meetings had the objective of bringing together Portuguese professionals and giving them an opportunity to present and discuss the ongoing technical activities. They have been attended by up to 200 participants. The papers presented in these meetings have been collected in a series of books written in Portuguese.

At the same time, as the conferences have become more mature, the international contacts have also increased and the industry became more international in such a way that the fact that the conference was in Portuguese started to hinder its further development with wider participation. Therefore, for the session that was planned for 2010, a decision was made to experiment with having also papers in English, mixed with the usual papers in Portuguese.

The national meetings have normally taken place around the month of November but, given that IST was completing 100 years of existence in May 2011, another decision was made to postpone this Conference to 10-12 May 2011 so as to associate it also with the commemorations of the 100 years of IST...