Steam Engineering Knowledge for Marine Engineers (Reeds Marine Engineering and Technology Series, Volume 9)

This volume is a companion to Volume 8 in the Reed's Marine Engineering Series and is based on the Department of Transport syllabus for Engineering Knowledge for the Class 2 and Class 1 Engineers' Steam Certificates and Steam Endorsements.

Subjects covered include:
• scotch and water-tube boilers, boiler mountings, modern trends in feed-water treatment
• turbine theory, nozzles, compoudning, velocity diagrams, gas turbines
• turbine practice, construction, gearing, lubrication, operation
• fundamentals of control and practice, bridge control
• open and closed feed systems, various kinds of pumps and the latest types of auxiliaries.

In addition there is a selection of questions of the type set in the examinations for Class 2 and Class 1 Engineers.