Marinedots: Engineering

Fundamentals of Heat Exchanger Design

Ramesh K. Shah, Dusan P. Sekulic

John Wiley & Sons, 11-Aug-2003 - 941 pages

Comprehensive and unique source integrates the material usually distributed among a half a dozen sources.
* Presents a unified approach to modeling of new designs and develops the skills for complex engineering analysis.
* Provides industrial insight to the applications of the basic theory developed.

IMechE Engineers' Databook

Clifford Matthews

John Wiley & Sons, -320 pages

A completely revised and expanded fourth edition of this best-selling pocket guide. Engineers' Data Book provides a concise and useful source of up-to-date essential information for the student or practising engineer.

Engineering Fundamentals of Internal Combustion Engines

Willard W. Pulkrabek

This applied thermoscience text explores the basic principles and applications of various types of internal combustion engines, with a major emphasis on reciprocating engines. It covers both spark ignition and compression ignition engines―as well as those operating on four-stroke cycles and on two stroke cycles―ranging in size from small model airplane engines to the larger stationary engines.

Diesels Afloat

Pat Manley

Fernhurst Books, 04-Apr-2007 - 300 pages

Diesel engines are installed in just about every yacht and in most large motorboats. This book explains how to prevent problems, troubleshoot and make repairs using safe techniques. It will help you save money on expensive bills for yard work you could do yourself. Diesels Afloat covers everything from how the diesel engine works to engine electrics, from fault finding to out of season lay-up. With this guide and your engineÕs manual you can be confident in dealing with any problem, and get the best performance from your boat.

Diesel engines - troubleshooting and repair

Paul Dempsey

McGraw Hill Professional, 1995 - Transportation - 378 pages

Hearing the sound of an engine you have just repaired is especially satisfying when you consider how costly it can be to pay for professional help. In this easy-to-use guide, author Paul Dempsey demystifies diesel technology, explaining everything you need to know to troubleshoot and fix problems with engines found in farm and lawn equipment, boats, air compressors, and generators.

Diesel Engine Transient Operation

Traditionally, the study of internal combustion engines operation has focused on the steady-state performance. However, the daily driving schedule of automotive and truck engines is inherently related to unsteady conditions. In fact, only a very small portion of a vehicle’s operating pattern is true steady-state, e. g. , when cruising on a motorway. Moreover, the most critical conditions encountered by industrial or marine engines are met during transients too. Unfortunately, the transient operation of turbocharged diesel engines has been associated with slow acceleration rate, hence poor driveability, and overshoot in particulate, gaseous and noise emissions. Despite the relatively large number of published papers, this very important subject has been treated in the past scarcely and only segmentally as regards reference books. Merely two chapters, one in the book Turbocharging the Internal Combustion Engine by N. Watson and M. S. Janota (McMillan Press, 1982) and another one written by D. E. Winterbone in the book The Thermodynamics and Gas Dynamics of Internal Combustion Engines, Vol. II edited by

Diesel Engine Care and Repair A Captains Quick Guide

On the water, when an engine problem surfaces, there is no time to spend searching through an exhaustive manual. Diesel Engine Care and Repair provides all the answers--fast.

Drawn from the world's largest boating library, it presents 14 color panels of authoritative, concise information on diesel engines. This on-the-spot reference is a convenient, accessible, and utterly streamlined information resource.

Decanter Centrifuge Handbook

Title - Decanter Centrifuge Handbook

Scope of Publication
A reference work for process designers and users of decanters, this book aims to bridge the information gap in this field - that between academic theory promoted in student textbooks and case study data in manufacturers sales literature.

Design
It includes information on design and specification, preparing the reader to select and correctly size equipment.

Purchase
As a design or project engineer working with vendors to make final equipment selection, this work provides the readers with the full facts before they start talking to product vendors.

Centrifugal and Rotary Pumps Fundamentals with Applications

Title - Centrifugal and Rotary Pumps Fundamentals with Applications

Author - Lev Nelik

Centrifugal and Rotary Pumps offers both professionals and students a concise reference detailing the design, performance, and principles of operation of the different pumps types defined by the Hydraulic Institute. From historical background to the latest trends and technological developments, the author focuses on information with real-world practicality and techniques you can implement immediately.

Beginning with the fundamentals, the text then shifts to real field cases that address applications, pumpage, system interaction, reliability, failure analysis, and practical solutions. By including specification parameters and criteria for the application of various pumps, this comprehensive book provides necessary and timely material that plant engineers, maintenance staff, operators can use and share with colleagues.

Boiler Control Systems Engineering

Author - G.F(jerry) Gilman

This book is for anyone who works with boilers: utilities managers, power plant managers, control systems engineers, maintenance technicians or operators. The information deals primarily with water tube boilers with Induced Draft (ID) and Forced Draft (FD) fan(s) or boilers containing only FD fans. It can also apply to any fuel-fired steam generator. Other books on boiler control have been published; however, they do not cover engineering details on control systems and the setup of the various control functions. Boiler Control Systems Engineering provides specific examples of boiler control including configuration and tuning, valve sizing, and transmitter specifications. This expanded and updated second edition includes drum level compensation equations, additional P&ID

Basic Principles of Ship Propulsion

Basic Principles of Ship Propulsion Scope of this Paper scribed for free sailing in calm weather, For the purpose of this paper, the term This paper is divided into three chap- and followed up by the relative heavy/ “ship” is used to denote a vehicle em- ters which, in principle, may be con- light running conditions which apply ployed to transport goods and persons sidered as three separate papers but when the ship is sailing and subject to from one point to another over water. which also, with advantage, may be different types of extra resistance, like Ship propulsion normally occurs with read...

Alfa laval pump hand book - Second edition 2002

Alfa laval pump hand book

The present pump handbook was specifically prepared and officially released by Alfa Laval professionals with the intention to provide all required support the users of the pumps at all levels and to provide them with the very valuable reference tool.

This publication is covering all relevant technical aspects and includes all info considered necessary for the proper selection as well as further application of the "Alfa Laval" ranges of the three basic types of pumps - namely the centrifugal pumps, the liquid ring pumps, and the rotary lobe pumps. This handbook has been arranged in fifteen main chapters - the first chapter of the book will give some very basic intro to above stated types of pumps, while the second chapter supplements that information with some theory and terminology.

Adhesives in Marine Engineering

Title - Adhesives in Marine Engineering

Jan R. Weitzenböck

Woodhead Pub., 2012 - Adhesive joints

With its distinguished editor and international team of expert contributors, this is an essential guide for all those involved in the design, production and maintenance of bonded structures in the marine environment, as well as proving a key source for academic researchers in the field. This book provides an invaluable overview of the design and use of adhesively-bonded joints in marine environments; discusses the use of adhesives in marine and offshore engineering, adhesive solution design and analysis, and the design of adhesively-bonded joints for ship applications and wine turbines, among other topics; reviews testing the mechanical, thermal and chemical properties of adhesives for marine environments, together with the moisture resistance and durability of these adhesives. --