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: Received: 4 May 2021 / Approved: 7 May 2021 / Online: 7 May 2021 (14:17:36 CEST)
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Dev, A.K.; Saha, M. Weight Estimation of Marine Propulsion and Power Generation Machinery. Preprints2021, 2021050145. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202105.0145.v1
Dev, A.K.; Saha, M. Weight Estimation of Marine Propulsion and Power Generation Machinery. Preprints 2021, 2021050145. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202105.0145.v1
Dev, A.K.; Saha, M. Weight Estimation of Marine Propulsion and Power Generation Machinery. Preprints2021, 2021050145. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202105.0145.v1
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Dev, A.K., & Saha, M. (2021). Weight Estimation of Marine Propulsion and Power Generation Machinery. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202105.0145.v1
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Dev, A.K. and Makaraksha Saha. 2021 "Weight Estimation of Marine Propulsion and Power Generation Machinery" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202105.0145.v1
Abstract
During the conceptual and preliminary design stage of a ship, designers need to ensure that the selected principal dimensions and parameters are good enough to deliver a stable ship (statically and dynamically) besides deadweight and speed. To support this, the initial intact stability of the proposed ship is required to be calculated, and in doing so, the lightship weight and its detailed breakdown are necessary to be known. After hull steel weight, machinery weight, mainly, marine propulsion and power generation machinery, play a vital role in the lightship weight estimate of a ship due to its robustness. The correct estimation of respective weights improves the accuracy of calculating a ship's initial stability typically to be designed and built. Hence, it would be advantageous for the designer to convince the ship owner. A total of 3006 marine propulsion (main marine diesel) engines and 348 power generation (auxiliary marine diesel) engines/generators of various power output (generators output for auxiliary engines), engine RPM and cylinder number of different engine makers are collected. These are analyzed and presented in both tabular and graphical forms to demonstrate the possible relationship between marine propulsion engine weight and power generation engine weight, and their respective power output, RPM, cylinder number, power-RPM ratio and power-RPM ratio per cylinder.In this article, the authors have attempted to investigate the behavior of marine propulsion engine weight and power generation engine/generator weight regarding engine power output, generator power output, engine RPM and cylinder number (independent variables). Further attempts have been made to identify those independent variables that influence the weight of the marine propulsion engine and power generation engine/generator (dependent variables), and their interrelationships. A mathematical model has thus been developed and proposed, as a guiding tool, for the designer to estimate the weight of main and auxiliary engines more accurately during the conceptual and preliminary design stage.
Keywords
engine weight; engine power; engine/generator power; engine RPM; cylinder number; power-RPM ratio; power-RPM ratio per cylinder; low-speed; medium-speed; high-speed; standard deviation; correlation coefficient; coefficient of multiple determination; F-statistic
Subject
Engineering, Marine Engineering
Copyright:
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