 This volume has proven to be essential to every large motorboat and yacht having a diesel engine installed on board. The publication is intended to explain readers how to avoid the problems and perform proper troubleshooting and repair of the engines following the established safe techniques.
This book shall be on board of every diesel-driven boat and yacht. It is nicely illustrated with more than four hundred images and data diagrams. According to the numerous reviews left by the readers all over the world, this is the best diesel engine maintenance manual designed specifically for yachts and boats and presenting all required information in a manner that makes the text understandable not only to the professional marine engineer but also to the typical boater or yachting enthusiast.
All of the readers do recommend this volume and consider it a must-have publication. Among the topics covered in the pages of this book there are the working principle of the diesel engines, tips on choosing the propellers, engine electrics issues, instructions on getting the best of the diesel engine and how to conduct the fault finding; the readers will also know how to lay-up their vessels for out-of-season period and maintain the engine during that time. /span>
 Here is the second edition of maybe the best textbook on marine engineering. The volume is truly excellent when used for preparing to the relevant examinations. Note, however, that it will be equally useful and interesting to the practical marine engineering professionals who can use it to refresh their knowledge.
The material is arranged in fifteen chapters. The first chapter of the book covers the regulations applicable to the machinery arrangements and equipment installed on board modern ships. The second chapter is devoted to the class and statutory surveys conducted by the marine inspectors to evaluate the degree of the vessel’s compliance with the rules, regulations, conventions and codes.
The safety management at sea is dealt with in the third chapter, followed with the one on the drydocking surveys and what shall be considered when preparing for same. After that, the readers will proceed to the basic marine insurance aspects since they are all expected to have some essential knowledge.
The next two chapters are dealing with the structural integrity of the ship and stability, including the best practice for cargo placement and handling, wand the relevant training to be provided for the crew members. The remaining chapters will shed some light on the new construction of ships, software application in the shipping industry, and human relations. The closing chapter addresses the gas and chemical carriers. Make sure you have also checked Vol. 1 and Vol. 3.
 As we all know, the shipboard hull piping systems are designed and installed with the ultimate purpose of carrying various fluids from one point on the ship to another. The subject fluids can be different in nature, including the erosive and corrosive ones, they can also be flammable. Moreover, they can have different temperature and be under different pressures.
That is the reason why the technical requirements are very strict and consider the complexity of the piping. Needless to say that the inefficient piping may eventually impact the ship safety and operations in a very negative way. The present manual was prepared to let trainees familiarize themselves with the most important areas of the ship piping.
First of all, they will be provided with the general information about the piping systems, and applicable requirements of the national and international regulating bodies, class societies etc. After that, the pipe materials are addressed together with the symbols and signs, followed by the chapters on the pipe fittings and valves used on the modern ships.
The other sections of the publication are covering the equipment and instrumentation, piping drawings and how to read them, calculations involved, pipe fabrication and welding, and many others, all equally important for designing, building and maintaining efficient shipboard pipework.
 In fact, this is the only title of all those available today that would deal with the basic vessel design together with the verification concepts, starting from the particular devices and all the way to the systems. The requirements applicable to the design and subsequent development of the electrical systems installed on board modern marine ships significantly differ from those applying to the general power generating systems.
The shipbuilders involved in the design of the shipboard electrical equipment and systems shall possess a sound understanding in order to create safe and efficient power systems. The coverage of the present volume includes, but is not limited to, the associated technologies together with the rules and regulations applying to all types of ships.
The theoretical part is supplemented with the numerous practical real-life design examples, provided with the brilliant and informative illustrations, all contributing to the ease of digesting the material. Note that there are also many technical drawings showing the details of the power systems; the rules covered in the book and both international and national standards and guidelines. The volume shall be considered an essential reading for the electrical engineers at the shipyards.
 As the title of this publication implies, it is intended to provide students with the information useful when preparing for the exams. The volume will give reference marine engineering technical knowledge as required for the M.O.T. The material compiled and carefully selected by the author, has been arranged in the thirty five sections.
The first several sections are devoted to the indicating diagrams and purifiers, compressors and boilers, lube oil, heat exchangers, air conditioning systems, and bearings. Then, the students will start to read about the shipboard steering gear arrangements and electrical installations, pumping devices and fixed/portable firefighting arrangements and systems, supercharging, scavenging etc. Some essential information on the naval architecture has been provided in a separate section.
Note that the pollution of the marine environment has also been covered since it is one of the areas paid attention during the examinations. The rest of the sections are dealing with such important aspects of marine engineering as the propulsion and auxiliary diesel engine components, their construction and working principles, shafting arrangements, valves, lines, piping, and, of course, survey and inspection requirements.
 We are hereby offering the latest and popular English edition of maybe the most popular handbooks of diesel engines providing remarkably comprehensive overview of every type and size of subject engines, from the smallest single cylinder diesel engines and up through the huge two stroke diesel engines installed on board marine vessels.
The material presented in the book is mainly based on the valuable contributions made by almost sixty world recognized industry experts collaborating together. Moreover, in addition to the theoretical fundamentals, this publication treats in detail the critically important subjects of the atmospheric emission, energy efficiency matters, injection systems and exhaust gas after treatment, electronic engine control and management, as well as the conventional and newly introduced alternative fuels.
This handbook would actually serve as a truly indispensable companion to the study of both theoretical and practical issues of the diesel engines. We believe that it would be equally required to the industry professionals, as well as to the students of engineering (including marine engineering) and in fact everyone interested in learning a bit more about the technology of the diesel engines, their working principles, understanding their functions, interaction of various systems within the engine and other related aspects.
 The authors of this interesting monograph have mainly focused on the dynamical research of the crank-piston mechanisms and were considering both basic and additional motions, They have tried to perform the full dynamical analysis of the piston machinery together with their mechanisms, and that is why the present publication is studying the mechanisms mentioned above, with clearances in the kinematic pairs.
The tasks in question are carried out, making the main emphasis on the frictions in the mechanisms as well as wear and mechanical impacts; moreover, the fracture formation taking place in the links has also been addressed. In addition, the authors of the monograph have paid particular attention to the elasticity of the details of the mechanisms. The publication would be mainly meant for the specialists in the field of the design of the mechanisms.
However, it shall definitely be noted that it will be also useful for the manufacturers of the above stated machinery as well as for the students of the relevant disciplines. It comprises the researches conducted by the authors and published in the numerous popular works. Have a look in this volume if you are interested in the design considerations of the subject mechanisms, you will definitely find a lot of useful relevant information.
 One of the main declared purposes of Gregory Nellis and Sanford Klein, who formed the duet of authors of the volume presented to your attention, was to write a single book that would be able to provide all practicing engineers and all other interested people with the required capability and good practical tools enabling readers to effectively solve various real-world problems relating to the heat transfer, and to do that with the considerable level of confidence.
This publication comprises numerous technically advanced topics. The numerical and analytical methods of problem solution that have been included into this volume are actually being applied to the topics that are not actually considered in the majority of other textbooks. The authors have done their best trying to maximally improve the reader-friendliness of this book and, in order to facilitate this feature, they have presented completely the derivations of the most important results, with no skipping any steps - such the approach would help to reduce the frustration of the students and also improve the retention.
The examples that have been selected for inclusion in this textbook are all quite ubiquitous and inherently interesting for both students and professional engineers. The volume is integrating the popular computational software packs directly with the materials on heat transfer...
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