Category: Marine Machinery and Systems Design.

Engine Room Crane

Describe the safeties associated with Engine Room Crane? §  Push button type controller remote. §  Emergency stop is provided. §  Limit switches are provided,…

Crankshaft

Crankshaft the word itself made of two words crank and shaft, or in another way we can say that a…

Connecting rods

Introduction We have learnt in our previous articles how the various components of the marine diesel engine such as the piston,…

Piston

Piston forming the lower part of the combustion chamber: The diesel engine is a type of internal combustion engine which ignites…

Worm gears

The Varvel Group has specialised in the design, production and sale of mechanical gearboxes since 1955. Today, the group offers customers a…

Bevel Gears

They connect intersecting axes and come in several types. The pitch surface of bevel gears is a cone. They are…

HELICAL GEARS

Helical Gears – excel in quiet operation Helical gears are one type of cylindrical gears with slanted tooth trace. Compared…

Spur Gear

Spur gears transmit power through shafts that are parallel. The teeth of the spur gears are parallel to the shaft…

Thermal equilibrium

Heat is the flow of energy from a high temperature to a low temperature. When these temperatures balance out, heat stops flowing, then the system…

Types of Main Bearings

The rotational power of a ship’s propeller is determined by the power produced by the marine engine to rotate the…

Thrust Bearing

JOURNAL / SLEEVE BEARINGS

Among the sliding contact bearings radial bearings find wide applications in industries and hence these bearings are dealt in more…