Ship Power Installations, Trends of Development and
Up-to-date Problems of MET(E).
Prof. I.I. Kostylev, Rector, Dr., Prof. M.K. Ovsiannikov, State Maritime
Academy, St. Petersburg, Russia
Abstract
The paper is relevant to the problem of co-ordination curricula of
MET(E) with new technics in the field of ship propulsion installation and up-to-date
maintenance, which junior ship engineer immediately deal with. Actually the following
topics are considered:
- total electrification of ship power installation with the description
of a feasible scheme of its realisation in the near future (MHDG and MHDM);
- application of CLT propellers;
- impact of oil and wastes from ships on the marine environment;
- manning.
A marine college graduate deal with auxiliary systems and devices
usually highly electrified. There is the probability of extension of electrification on
board of ships. It makes the augment of electrical courses in MET(E) curricula
indispensable.
On the whole materials of the paper contain:
- some characterization of ships and their power installations;
standing exposed trends of their changes; a concept about some addition to MET(E)
curricula.
Keywords: ship power installation, propeller, oil spill, curriculum.
It is a matter of fact that a volume and content of MET curricula must
be determined by relevant requirements, i.e., first of all, by quantitative and
qualitative composition of fleet, trends of these characteristics and their feasible
changes in the future.
One may note the important difference in rate of qualitative change of
ship navigational and power equipment: units and navigational and informative purposes are
comparatively cheap and movable easily and smoothly for a ship, meanwhile her power
including propulsive installation accounts sometimes over 30 per cent of total investments
and its advisable running duration must not be less than 25...30 years, i.e. the lifetime
of
