Know and understand:

1) Ship’s internal combustion engines (SICE) principle of operation, classification, and marking

2) purpose, operating conditions, structural parameters of engines units and parts , their service systems;

3) the characteristics of fuels and lubricants for SICE, their preparation methods in ship conditions;

4) the  processes in engines, their control and regulation methods;

5) parameters of thermal stress and dynamic loads, control and ensuring permissible levels methods;

6) characteristics and modes of operation of SICE in different operating conditions;

7) ecological characteristics of SICE, methods of reducing harmful effects on the environment;

8) engine quality parameters and means of their improvement.

Be able:

1) using the available documentation, prepare for the operation of the SICE;

2) in accordance with the position and functional duties to ensure direct operation, management of technical use and  operation maintenance (TU and TM) of SICE, to engage in production, design and research activities in the field of  marine diesel engines operation;

3) control the operating processes parameters, thermal and mechanical stress of engines, carry out regulation that ensures compliance with the requirements of regulatory documents;

4) carry out TM operations of SICE;

5) draw up organizational and technical documentation for TU and TM of the SICE.

The acquisition of learning outcomes for the educational component is achieved by studying the educational material in the following sections:

- Principles of operation and thermodynamic cycles of internal combustion engines

- Working substance of real cycles

- Work processes in a diesel cylinder

-  Diesel engines indicative and effective performance indicators

- Processes of fuel supply, mixture formation and fuel combustion.

- Diesel gas exchange processes

-  Marine diesel engines supercharging

- Marine diesel engine work process mathematical modeling

- Designs of marine diesel engines

- Dynamics of marine diesel engines

- Thermal balance of marine diesel

- Thermal stress of marine diesel engines

- Marine diesel engines operational characteristics

- Marine diesel engines modes of operation

- Automatic adjustment, alarm and protection

- Marine internal combustion engines environmental characteristics