Marine Engineering

This book by Gil Taylor is intended to serve as a reader-friendly resource full of the useful technical information to save both time and money when checking and ensuring quality. The publication contains numerous data charts and data tables, inspection checksheets, examples of the calculations, informative diagrams clearly illustrating the information making it faster and easier to understand. The book will definitely answer most of the question the practicing engineer may have in the field.

That is why it is recommended to all mechanical inspectors to be used as a reference source for their day to day work. Opening with the introductory chapter on the design quality control covering the specifications and plans, design analysis, structural and mechanical design checksheets, drawing checksheets, fire protection design, IBC Code requirements, electrical design and other relevant information, the content of the book proceeds to the ductwork including shop drawings, fabrication and installation, supports etc.

The next three chapters have been devoted to the installation, insulations and heating systems while the remaining chapters of the publication are dealing with the fuel storage tanks together with the associated fitting and equipment, inspections, cooling and heating equipment, ventilation, refrigeration, air conditioning and other matters.

Another excellent and useful publication prepared by the MarineInsight experts. The volume will give readers all required guidance to making and following correct operating procedures when working with the shipboard machinery. The review of the numerous maritime accident investigation reports show that the human error remains the major contributing factor for the loss of human life and property at sea.

In the meantime, the prime reasons for the shipboard accidents are handling and operational errors relating to the machinery room equipment and systems. This would typically include poor preparation and incorrect management of the various operations, lack of good technical knowledge of the equipment, and other issues. In addition, it is noted that many of the crew members working in the engine room face serious difficulties with operating the systems and can miss out some of the important steps, which eventually results in breakdowns and other problems.

The present guidebook has been written with the sole intention of its author to offer a good advice and easy-to-follow instructions covering all systems and equipment in the engine room, including main and auxiliary engines, boilers and fresh water generators, oily water handling equipment and sewage treatment plants, incinerators and separators, refrigeration plants and air compressors, AC plants, emergency generators and compressors, inert gas systems, pumps etc. я

A truly excellent reference book that should definitely be considered a must-have publication in any engineer's home library. Michael Volk, who is the author of the volume, has managed to create a well-thought work which is very easy to read and containing the materials very easy to understand even for non-professionals in the field. The amount of the material included in the publication is really tremendous.

We would for sure say that the book could easily serve as a textbook on pumps and their technical characteristics allowing all people to get to the good level of knowledge of pumps in quite organized manner. The author presents clear and understandable descriptions of creating system curves and also of evaluating the pump curves. The book will therefore be helpful in describing the various associated electrical components and also in providing required guidance on how to reduce the pump usage costs. Note that this is one of the most popular and, as per the reviews submitted by the readers, maybe the best volume for all mechanical engineers.

This is the second edition of the book which has been significantly expanded in comparison to the first release; it now includes some completely new chapters added to cover the newly introduced technologies.

Another classic publication, this one was first released nearly a century ago, in 1923. The book represents an excellent reproduction of a very important historical work, while the team of authors who were preparing the present release did their best trying to maintain the same format of presenting the information as the one used in the original publication.

Note that the publishers of this volume have not applied the OCR when preparing the soft copy of the book; instead, they have declared that the application of such technique would lead to sub-optimal results, e.g. confusing formatting, many typo errors etc. The author strongly hopes that the present work will be more culturally important in the original form. As it can be easily seen from the title, the book is fully dedicated to the marine steam engines.

The book opens with the introduction giving some historical overview and describing the progress in the field of marine engineering. Then, the main body of the book comes, divided into three major parts, named "The Boiler", "The Steam", and "The Mechanism". This set of sections is followed by the section providing general information on the pumping arrangements, auxiliary shipboard machinery, construction materials, fire arrangements, indicator diagrams and others.

The title of this publication is quite self-explanatory. The book is mainly focusing on the matter of thermal design and some important performance aspects of the fire-tube and water-tube waste heat boilers, steam generators and other relevant equipment including economizers and air heaters.

The author of the book has worked out more than a hundred of real-life practical issues presenting them in a way that would be helpful for the boiler plant engineer to evaluate the newly installed boiler plants or make modification to the existing boiler arrangements without having to approach the boiler manufacturers or suppliers for assistance. All key technological trends and developments relating to the design and construction of the boilers have been covered in this volume in order to prevent the new ideas for the improvement of the efficiency of the boilers and also with the intention to lower the drop in gas pressure.

The book will also help practicing boiler plant engineers to better understand and correctly evaluate the performance of the steam generator/waste heat boilers they maintain. Numerous very informative calculation procedures have also been included in this book; in addition, the appendices to the main body of the book contain the simplified procedures of estimation of the heat transfer coefficients.

The last Coen & Hamworthy Combustion Handbook was written by Arthur H. Light in 1920.' In the late 1980s, Coen authorized the publication of a new combustion handbook at the request of its customers, but day-to-day work never allowed time for the book.

The origins of this book started during a business trip. In early 2000, one of the editors (Steve) was on a trip to visit a major Coen customer with a young Coen application engineer. During dinner, the engineer told Steve a story of a number of engineers debating the units of molecular weight for hours. It was at this moment that Steve decided a unique kind of book was needed that did not exist for combustion engineers. The book needed to be all inclusive and cover the very basics in building block form up to more complex combustion topics for everyone involved in combustion systems to use.

This book is designed for all engineers and professionals involved in the field of industrial and utility combustion systems. It is roughly divided into two parts, consisting of a total of 17 chapters, sequentially covering relevant and important combustion engineering basics and then specific computations and applications. Each chapter is roughly organized from simple to more complex, thus allowing the reader to absorb as much as they may need before moving on to the next chapter. Practical examples are also included.

This work by Ghazi Karim, the recognized industry expert and university professor with more than forty years of the experience, offers readers a very detailed technical discussion of various types of dual-fuel engines, the types of gaseous fuels they work on, and the associated operational and maintenance practices.

The author has reflected all latest cutting-edge technological advancements in the subject fuels that is so rapidly expanding today. The book is quite timely and explains the main benefits as well as the challenges that are associated with internal combustion engines, gas-fueled engines, compression ignition engines, and, as it is stated in the title, dual-gas engines. The author has also made an attempt to explore both natural gas and ethane as engine fuels, also paying some attention to the LPG, hydrogen and some other fuels that can be used as the alternative.

The most important safety considerations have also been addressed in the publication, together with the relevant aspects of the fuel gas combustion and conversion of the conventional engines to the operation on the dual-fuel. In short, the book is covering a wide range of the engines with the main emphasis made on the engines used in the transportation sector.  

This is a nice book, very nicely organized and full of great technical information. It will help readers simplify the things that they need in the ASME Code. The publication is breaking down the section of the ASME Code into the easily understandable abstracts concentrating on the most relevant matters and leaving out all non-essential stuff. We would recommend this book to be used as a very good reference source to those people needing to get information without having a code breaker.

A very useful addition to any ASME Code shop doing all what is stated in the title. The book is eminently readable and so well written. This eight edition has been significantly revised and updated to serve as an excellent engineering tool simplifying the understanding and applying the content of the ASME Code for fabrication, purchase, testing and periodic inspection of the pressure vessels. It has been filled with technical solutions that will help to solve the most typical problems and this has resulted in a very handy tool providing the expertise required by everyone in order to deal with all latest changes in the requirements applicable to the pressure vessels.

The readers will know how to comply with the ASME standards for the pressure vessel inspection and quality control, welding matters, and, of course, safety procedures to be followed during the design and further maintenance of the pressure vessels.