Course in - Marine Propulsion Systems
United States Merchant Marine Academy (Merchant Marine)
Key Information
Campus location
Kings Point, USA
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
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Earliest start date
Sep 2023
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Introduction
This introductory course addresses the fundamentals of marine propulsion prime-movers, propulsion systems, and associated auxiliary machinery and systems. Diesel, gas turbines, conventional, steam, and nuclear propulsion plants will be addressed, and the required fluid support systems, transmission systems and basic control systems. Students will be expected to apply knowledge of the engineering sciences (fluid dynamics, heat transfer, strength of materials and thermodynamics) to analyse marine power plants. This course will include an on-campus laboratory session.