Electrical propulsion on ships has been discussed in this article in detail. Electric propulsion is used mostly on passenger vessels or Cruise lines and other small vessels. But with emissions norms becoming stringent, they will make their way into merchant shipping as well. Electrical propulsion has lot of advantages over the internal combustion engines which […]
Chief Engineer is the sole head of the machines and matters related to the technical area. Machines that are in the engine room and those who are on the deck are all comes under him or her. Being head of the department that makes the ship to move in the waters, he or she needs to have knowledge and […]
A centrifugal pump is used in large number on board ship and every marine engineer should know how to overhaul the centrifugal pump. Centrifugal pumps are mostly preferred because their outflow is large as compare to other pumps and their maintenance is less. But the pressure developed from this type of pump is not that much and reciprocating pumps come […]
