Marine Diesel Engines

Marine Diesel Engines covers main propulsion engines, all systems and equipments, and auxiliary engines. The book carries enough in-depth material to be of value to senior students of marine engineering just as much to entry-level marine engineers and trainees. Sailing marine engineers preparing for their competency examinations will find it most useful.

All chapters progress from working principles to construction and design features to operation and maintenance. Hazards inherent in a running engine and the built-in safeguards and fail-safe devices to combat them have been dealt with in a separate chapter. Line drawings and composite diagrams have been used freely to explain concepts and intricacies of design. An added feature is the section on watch keeping, since that is truly a test of the skill and competence of a sailing marine engineer.

Akber Ayub, B.E. (Mech), A I Mar. E is a graduate mechanical engineer, alumni of Karnataka Regional Engineering College, Surathkal (present-day NIT). After a career in the merchant navy lasting close to a decade, and later, following long stints in other areas of engineering, he settled down as a writer. He has been associated as a writer and editor with three books, on a dissimilar subject, that have a worldwide circulation. He now divides his time between writing for various publications and working as a visiting faculty at a college of marine engineering. The present volume is his first foray into technical writing, bringing together years of experience as a marine engineer and innate writing skills.