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Marine Power Plant

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  • Is good for both students and engineers in the field of marine power system

  • Includes plenty of illustrations to make the readers easily understand different types of marine engines

  • Serves useful as a textbook or reference for self-studying

  • Introduces the actual designs of modern ship internal combustion engines, gas turbine engines, and steam turbine units

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About this book

This book describes the history and development of marine power plant. Problems of arrangement, general construction and parameters of marine power plants of all types are considered. It also introduces different characteristics of each type of marine power plant, matching characteristic for diesel propulsion. The book gives a clear idea about different marine power engines, including working principle, structure and application. Readers will understand easily the power system for ships since there are a lot of illustrations and instructions for each of the equipment. This book is useful for students majoring in “marine engineering”, “energy and power engineering” and other related majors. It is also useful for operators of marine institution for learning main design and operation of ship plants.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, China

    Zongming Yang, Huabing Wen, Xinglin Yang

  • Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding, Mykolayiv, Ukraine

    Viktor Gorbov, Vira Mitienkova, Serhiy Serbin

About the authors

Zongming YANG, associate professor, graduated from Harbin Institute of Marine Engineering in 1989 with a master's degree in marine power plant. He is currently the head of the Department of Power Engineering at the School of Energy and Power, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology. He focuses mainly on marine power systems, power plants and energy conservation research. He has participated in a number of international cooperation projects.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Marine Power Plant

  • Authors: Zongming Yang, Huabing Wen, Xinglin Yang, Viktor Gorbov, Vira Mitienkova, Serhiy Serbin

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4935-3

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Shanghai Scientific and Technical Publishers 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-33-4934-6Published: 13 February 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-33-4937-7Published: 13 February 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-33-4935-3Published: 12 February 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 335

  • Number of Illustrations: 220 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Mechanical Engineering, Energy Systems, Engine Technology

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