Practical Marine Engineering for Marine Engineers and Students, with Aids for Applicants for Marine Engineers' Licenses

William Frederick Durand, Charles Wilson Dyson

Marine engineering, 1917 - Marine engineering - 982 pages

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SECTION	1

Alloys	29

Testing of Metals	37

CHAPTER II	43

Briquettes and Artificial Fuel	53

Liquid Fuel	62

CHAPTER III	63

1 The Scotch Boiler	66

3 Piston Valve	498

4 Equilibrium Piston	502

5 Equilibrium Rings	505

6 Outside and Inside Valves	506

Motion Due to Simple Eccentric and Its Representation by Valve Diagrams	507

2 Oval Valve Diagram	510

3 Bilgram Valve Diagram	516

4 Zeuner Valve Diagram	518

3 Direct Tubular Boiler Locomotive Type	67

6 Watertube Boilers	69

7 Relative Advantages of Different Types of Boilers	83

Riveted Joints	85

Materials and Construction	104

3 Construction of Firetube Boilers	105

4 Construction of Watertube Boilers	127

5 Common Sizes and Dimensions of Scotch Boilers	129

6 Common Proportions of Scotch Boilers	130

7 Weights of Boilers	131

Boiler Mountings and Fire Room Fittings	133

2 Muffler	136

3 Stop Valve	137

4 Dry Pipe or Internal Steam Pipe	139

5 Feed Check Valve and Internal Feed Pipe	140

6 Surface and Bottom Blows	141

7 Steam Gages	143

8 Water Gage and Cocks	144

9 Hydrokineter Circulator	147

10 Hydrometer	150

11 Boiler Saddles	151

12 Boiler Lagging	152

2 Superheaters	161

Boiler Design in Accordance with the Rules of the United States Board of Supervising Inspectors of Steam Vessels	162

CHAPTER IV	191

2 Fire Brick	192

3 Atomization of the Oil	194

Mechanical BurnersThe Principles Employed in Their Manu facture and the Various Types Used	195

1 SchutteKoerting Burner	197

3 Howden Burner	198

4 Normand Burner	199

6 Peabody Burner	200

SECTION PAGE 24 Air Cones Registers or Tuyeres	201

25 Amounts of Air for Combustion	208

Air Chambers on Fuel Oil Lines	209

Aids to Combustion	210

Methods of Operating with an OilFired Boiler	211

CHAPTER V	218

Marine Reciprocating Steam Engines	220

The Turbine for Ship Propulsion	231

3 Curtis Turbines	234

4 Combination Machinery	236

5 Reduction Gears	241

6 Hydraulic Reduction Gearing	252

7 Electric Reduction Gear	256

What are the chief properties and uses of aluminum?	258

Internal Combustion Engines Explosion	268

2 Heavy Duty Engines	269

4 SemiSpeed Engines	271

5 Two Cycle and Four Cycle Engines	272

6 Predominant Forms of Marine Engines in Service	273

7 The Large Engine	277

8 Starting and Reversing	279

9 DoubleActing Engines	283

10 Cooling Systems	284

11 Fuels	289

The Diesel Oil Engine Progressive Combustion 201	291

1 Types of Diesel Engines According to the Stroke Cycle	294

2 Description of FourStroke Cycle Diesel Engine	295

3 Outline of the Operation of a Two Cycle Diesel Engine	297

4 The Harris Valveless Engine	299

Producer Gas Installations	305

1 The Producer 305 306 200 p 2 Operation of the Producer	306

What are gray white and mottled irons?	309

3 Producer Gas Engines 307 + ch 1 x x x	310

2 Columns	315

4 Engine Seating 321 25	319

5 Pistons	321

6 Piston Rods	325

7 Crossheads	327

8 Connecting Rods	330

9 Crank Shaft	332

SECTION PAGE 36 Construction of Parsons Turbines	335

1 The Cylinder	336

2 The Rotor	338

4 Blading	340

Construction of Curtis Turbines	341

2 The Rotor	344

5 Blading	345

Other Turbines	346

General Details	347

2 Bearings	350

Western River Boat Practice	359

1 Doctor	365

Engine Fittings	369

2 Main Stop Valve	372

3 Arrangement of Throttle and Maneuvering Valves for Tur bine Engines	374

4 Cylinder Drain Gear and Relief Valves	376

5 Starting Valves	377

6 Reversing Gear	378

7 Turning Gear	381

8 Joints and Packing	382

9 Reheaters	386

11 Counter Gear	389

13 Lagging	396

15 Turbine Micrometer Gage	413

16 Special Couplings	414

17 Kingsbury Thrust Bearing	417

Piping	423

2 Expansion Joint	426

3 Globe Angle and Straightway Valves	427

CHAPTER VII	430

Condensers	432

1 Condensers for Turbines	435

Air Pumps	438

Feed Pumps and Injectors	443

Auxiliaries for Turbines	448

2 Air Pumps	449

3 Lubricating System	458

4 Water Service	460

Feed Heaters	461

Filters	466

Evaporators	467

Direct Acting Pumps	470

Blowers or Fans	474

Separators	475

Ash Ejector and Ash Expeller	477

Pneumercator	479

1 Draft Indicator for Vessels	481

Time Firing Regulators	484

2 Indicator 487 to to to to to 3 Gong 4 Operation	488

Steain Traps	489

General Arrangement of Machinery	492

CHAPTER VIII	495

2 Double Ported Slide Valve	497

BraemmeMarshall Gear	524

Joy Valve Gear	528

Walschaert Valve Gear	529

Crank Valve Gear	531

Details of Stephenson Link Valve Gear	534

1 Eccentric and Strap and Eccentric Rod	535

2 Link	537

3 Link Block and Valve Stem	539

Valve Setting	541

2 Setting the Valve	544

3 Valve Setting from the Indicator Card	546

CHAPTER IX	548

Refrigeration by Freezing Mixtures	549

General Principles	550

Principal Features of Ammonia Refrigerating Apparatus	553

Carbonic Anhydride Refrigerating Machinery	559

Ethyl Chloride Machines	560

SECTION PAGE 74 Sulphur Dioxide Machine	562

Refrigeration by the Expansion of Compressed Air	563

Principal Features of Compressed Air Refrigerating Apparatus	564

Operation and Care of Refrigerating Machinery	566

CHAPTER X	570

The Dynamo	576

Wiring and the Distribution of Light and Power	582

Lamps	586

Operation and Care of Electrical Machinery	588

2 Faults	590

CHAPTER XI	593

Screw Propellers	596

2 Varieties of Propellers	602

3 Materials	605

Paddle Wheels	609

Powering Ships	614

Reduction of Power When Towing or When Vessel is Fast to a Dock	617

Trial Trips	619

Special Conditions for Speed Trials	624

CHAPTER XII	626

2 Fireroom Routine	630

Engine Room Routine and Management	640

2 Routine Operation	644

3 Minor Emergencies and Troubles	646

Routine for Turbine Propelled VesselsPreparations for Getting Under Way	650

2 Securing Main Engines After Coming to Anchor	652

4 Additional Notes on Firing	654

5 Instructions for Burning Oil Fuel	655

6 Preparations for Getting Under Way in the Firerooms Watertube Boilers	656

7 Routine for Getting Under Way	657

8 Routine for Coming to Anchor	659

9 Care and Operation	661

10 Work in Dry Dock	663

Chamber Plates	709

CHAPTER XIII	731

Steam Engine Indicators	749

Torsion Meters	757

What is the effect of phosphorus on wrought iron?	773

CHAPTER XIV	774

SECTION PAGE 4 Total Heat in a Substance	786

5 Latent Heat in Passing from Ice to Water	788

Steam Boiler Economy	789

2 Evaporation per Pound of Coal	792

3 Evaporation per Pound of Combustible	795

Steam Engine Economy	796

What forms of test pieces are employed and how are the various tests	802

2 Relation of Expansion to Economy	805

3 Economy of the Actual Engine	807

Coal Consumption and Related Problems	808

Development of the Steam Turbine	813

1 Principles of Action	814

2 Superheat	816

IC9 Definitions	817

Velocity Diagrams and Work by Steam	821

Action of the Steam in Parsons Turbine	824

Action of the Steam in Curtis Turbine	826

The Lever Safety Valve and the Safety Valve Problem	829

The Boiler Brace Problem	832

Strength of Boilers	837

Loss by Blowing Off	841

Gain by Feed Water Heating	844

The Proportions of Cylinders for Multiple Expansion Engines	845

Clearance and Its Determination	847

I20 The Effect of Clearance in Modifying the Apparent Expansion Ratio as Given by the Point of CutOff	848

Engine Constant	850

Indicated Thrust	851

Reduced Mean Effective Pressure	852

Pressure on Main Guides	855

Force Required to Move a Slide Valve	856

Amount of Condensing Water Required	857

Work Done by Pumps	858

Discharge of Steam Through an Orifice	860

Computing Weights of Parts of Machinery	861

2 Approximation and Short Cuts	862

CHAPTER XV	869

2 Reduction of a Mixed Number to an Improper Fraction	870

3 Reduction of an Improper Fraction to a Mixed Number	871

5 Addition of Common Fractions	872

6 Subtraction of Fractions	874

7 Multiplication of Fractions	875

8 Division of Fractions	876

10 Complex Fractions	879

2 To Reduce Decimals to Lower Terms	880

134	886

12 Sector of Circle	915

15 Figures with Irregular Contour	922

SECTION PAGE 25 Frustum of General Pyramid	926

27 Frustum of General Cone	927

Problems in Geometry	929

2 To Bisect the Distance Between Two Points	930

5 To Construct a Triangle Having Given the Three Sides	931

9 To Construct a Square Equivalent to a Given Rectangle	932

13 To Construct an Ellipse 15 To Develop the Surface of a Cylinder	934

16 To Develop the Surface of a Cylinder Which is Intersected by Another Cylinder the Two Axes Being in the Same Plane	935

17 To Develop the Surface of a Cone	936

Physics	937

3 Heat Unit	938

Mechanics	939

4 Moment of a Force	940

8 Energy	942

9 Conservation of Energy	943

12 Propositions in Statics	944

13 Mechanical Powers	946

14 Examples in Mechanics	952

53	963

xiii	973

780	979

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Title	Practical Marine Engineering for Marine Engineers and Students, with Aids for Applicants for Marine Engineers' Licenses
Authors	William Frederick Durand, Charles Wilson Dyson
Edition	4
Publisher	Marine engineering, 1917
Original from	the University of California
Digitized	5 Oct 2007
Length	982 pages

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