Running results of tugboat "Tom Jay" fitted two years ago with four Gardner Diesel engines rated 102 bhp at 800 rpm, each driving hydraulic pump which supply motive power for hydraulic motor driving screw direct; efficiency 87.75% for standing pull trial with heavy load, 78% when towing only 529 ton; results claimed inferior to Diesel electric and direct coupled Diesel drive. (See also Instn Mar Engrs -- Trans v 64 n 3 Mar 1952 p 39-46 (discussion) 47-55; Engineer v 193 n 5009 Jan 25 1952 p 153-5)
Diesel hydraulic propulsion
Brit Motor Ship
British Motor Ship ; 32 , n 383
1952
Article (Journal)
English
© Metadata Copyright Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
Engineering Index Backfile | 1952
|DIESEL-ELECTRIC PROPULSION - Diesel-electric Propulsion Intensifies in Newbuilds
Online Contents | 2008
Engineering Index Backfile | 1921
Engineering Index Backfile | 1946
|Engineering Index Backfile | 1937
|