Modern Marine Internal Combustion Engines: A Technical and Historical Overview (Hardbound-2020)

This book offers a comprehensive and timely overview of internal combustion engines for use in marine environments. It reviews the development of modern four-stroke marine engines, gas and gas–diesel engines and low-speed two-stroke crosshead engines, describing their application areas and providing readers with a useful snapshot of their technical features, e.g. their dimensions, weights, cylinder arrangements, cylinder capabilities, rotation speeds, and exhaust gas temperatures. For each marine engine, information is provided on the manufacturer, historical background, development and technical characteristics of the manufacturer’s most popular models, and detailed drawings of the engine, depicting its main design features.This book offers a unique, self-contained reference guide for engineers and professionals involved in shipbuilding. At the same time, it is intended to support students at maritime academies and university students in naval architecture/marine engineering with their design projects at both master and graduate levels, thus filling an important gap in the literature.

Yevgeniy Belousov has served as Dean of the Marine Engineering Faculty at the Vessels Power Plant Department of Kherson State Maritime Academy. Holding a Ph.D. from Nikolaev Shipbuilding Institute (Ukraine), he is the author of 50 articles published Russian, Ukrainian and English including four articles indexed by Scopus. He is also the author of two monographs, a textbook and more than 70 various training manuals on vessel diesel engines.Mykola Bulgakov has been an Associate Professor at the Vessels Power Plant Department of Kherson State Maritime Academy (Ukraine) since 2017. Holding a Ph.D. from Kharkiv National Automobile Highway University (Ukraine), he is the author of eight articles indexed by Scopus (six SAE technical papers) and more than 20 articles published in Ukrainian and Russian.Volodymyr Savchuk has been Head of the Vessels Power Plant Department of Kherson State Maritime Academy since 2016. Holding a Ph.D. from Kharkiv National Automobile Highway University (Ukraine), he is the author of four articles indexed by Scopus (three SAE technical papers), five patents and more than 60 articles published in Ukrainian and Russian.