The International Maritime Organization (IMO), an apex global maritime regulatory body continuously promotes operational strategies aimed at reduction of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emissions especially from commercial shipping operations. Shipping companies are responding in a number of ways which includes use of turbochargers as engine enhancers to improve fuel consumption efficiency and hence reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Turbochargers are also attached to enhance the output of internal combustion engines without increasing their cylinder capacity. Recent trends have pointed to increasing use of turbochargers as enhancers to prime movers of marine vessels. This paper analysed the relationship between outputs of turbocharged engine and naturally aspirated one employed as marine vessel prime movers. Data on engine parameters of turbocharged engine and the naturally aspirated one were collected from ship operational log and analyzed using mathematical models. Results showed that for the same sizes of marine engines, the turbocharged engine was more efficient than the naturally aspirated one. Specifically, the volumetric efficiency, the brakepower and the specific power were higher in the turbocharged engine when compared with the naturally aspirated one. Findings showed that turbocharged marine diesel engines based on their higher power output efficiency could continue to dominate naturally aspirated ones in marine prime mover applications. It is recommended that all ship operating companies should adopt turbocharger technology or retrofit their existing fleet to improve operational efficiency.
| Published in | Applied Engineering (Volume 5, Issue 2) |
| DOI | 10.11648/j.ae.20210502.16 |
| Page(s) | 72-76 |
| Creative Commons |
This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Copyright |
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Science Publishing Group |
Prime Movers, Turbocharger, Volumetric Efficiency, Power Output, Brakepower, Naturally Aspirated Engine
| [1] | Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) (2019), Larger vessels bring bigger losses. Shipping & Safety Review. |
| [2] | Ship Technology (2017). Turbocharging the World’s Largest Container Ships. https://www.ship-technology.com/features/featureturbocharging-the-worlds-largest-container-ships-4627524/Accessed 12/06/21. |
| [3] | Knezevic, V., Orovic, J., Stazic, L and Culin, J (2020). Fault Tree Analysis and Failure Diagnosis of Marine Diesel EngineTurbocharger system. Journal of Marine SAcience and Engineering, 8, 1004. Doi: 10.3390/jmse8121004. |
| [4] | Anderson, N. and Kisbenedek, E. (2018). Review on Recent Advances for Marine Turbocharegr Technologies: For Two stroke Diesel Engines. Bsc thesis, Chalmers University of Technology. |
| [5] | Le, V. V. and Truong, T. H. (2019). Solutions for the unstable working of a Turbocharger in Marine Diesel Engines. Journal of Mechanical Engineering Research and Development. Doi: http//doi.org/10.26480/jmerd.05.2019.42.25. |
| [6] | Galdo, M. I. L (2021) Marine Engines Performance and Emissions. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9030280. |
| [7] | Lei, L., Ding, M-z., Hu, H-w., Gao Y-x., Xiong, H-L and Wang, W. (2021) Structural Strength and Reliability Analysis of Important Parts of Marine Diesel Engine Turbocharger. Mathematical Problems in Engineering. Volume 2021. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/5547762. |
| [8] | Umit G.; Yasm, U. S. T &. Karakurt, S. A. (2015). Performance Analysis of Turbocharged 2 – stroke Diesel Engine, conference paper, 1st International Conference on Engineering and Natural Science (ICENS 2015). |
| [9] | Panting J., Pullen K. R. and Martinez B. R. F. (2001). Turbocharger motor generator for improvement of transient performance in an internal combustion engine, proceedings of the institute of mechanical engineering, Journal of Automobile Engineering. |
| [10] | Mugeem, M. (2012) Turbocharging with air condition assisted intercooler 10SR Journal of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Volume 2, pp 38-44. |
| [11] | Uzu, A (2010). The effects of intercooling on performance of turbocharged diesel engines specific fuel consumption with neural network. Scientific research and essays, volume 5 (23), pp 3781-3793. |
| [12] | Ghodke, P. R & Suryawnshi, J. G. (2012) Advanced Turbocharger Technologies for High performance Diesel Engine, Journal of Mechanical Engineering Technology, Volume 3, PP 620–630. |
| [13] | Galdo M. I. L. (2020). Numerical Analysis of NOx Reduction Using Ammonia Injection and Comparison with Water Injectio. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 8, 109. Doi: 10.3390/jmse8020109. |
| [14] | Pistek, U., Kucera, P., Fomin, O., and Lovska, A. (2020). Effective Mistuning Identification Method of Integrated Bladed Discs of Marine Engine Turbochargers. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 8, 379. doi: 10.3390/jmse8050379. |
| [15] | Vrettakes N. A (2017). Analysis and Characterization of a Marine Turbocharger’s Unstable Performance. Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment. |
APA Style
Donatus Eberechukwu Onwuegbuchunam, Kenneth Okechukwu Okeke, Moses Olatunde Aponjolosun, Sunday Okore. (2021). Performance Characteristics of Turbocharged vs. Naturally Aspirated Marine Prime Movers. Applied Engineering, 5(2), 72-76. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ae.20210502.16
ACS Style
Donatus Eberechukwu Onwuegbuchunam; Kenneth Okechukwu Okeke; Moses Olatunde Aponjolosun; Sunday Okore. Performance Characteristics of Turbocharged vs. Naturally Aspirated Marine Prime Movers. Appl. Eng. 2021, 5(2), 72-76. doi: 10.11648/j.ae.20210502.16
Share This Article
Twitter
Linked In
Facebook
Copy
Download@article{10.11648/j.ae.20210502.16,
author = {Donatus Eberechukwu Onwuegbuchunam and Kenneth Okechukwu Okeke and Moses Olatunde Aponjolosun and Sunday Okore},
title = {Performance Characteristics of Turbocharged vs. Naturally Aspirated Marine Prime Movers},
journal = {Applied Engineering},
volume = {5},
number = {2},
pages = {72-76},
doi = {10.11648/j.ae.20210502.16},
url = {https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ae.20210502.16},
eprint = {https://article.sciencepublishinggroup.com/pdf/10.11648.j.ae.20210502.16},
abstract = {The International Maritime Organization (IMO), an apex global maritime regulatory body continuously promotes operational strategies aimed at reduction of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emissions especially from commercial shipping operations. Shipping companies are responding in a number of ways which includes use of turbochargers as engine enhancers to improve fuel consumption efficiency and hence reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Turbochargers are also attached to enhance the output of internal combustion engines without increasing their cylinder capacity. Recent trends have pointed to increasing use of turbochargers as enhancers to prime movers of marine vessels. This paper analysed the relationship between outputs of turbocharged engine and naturally aspirated one employed as marine vessel prime movers. Data on engine parameters of turbocharged engine and the naturally aspirated one were collected from ship operational log and analyzed using mathematical models. Results showed that for the same sizes of marine engines, the turbocharged engine was more efficient than the naturally aspirated one. Specifically, the volumetric efficiency, the brakepower and the specific power were higher in the turbocharged engine when compared with the naturally aspirated one. Findings showed that turbocharged marine diesel engines based on their higher power output efficiency could continue to dominate naturally aspirated ones in marine prime mover applications. It is recommended that all ship operating companies should adopt turbocharger technology or retrofit their existing fleet to improve operational efficiency.},
year = {2021}
}
TY - JOUR T1 - Performance Characteristics of Turbocharged vs. Naturally Aspirated Marine Prime Movers AU - Donatus Eberechukwu Onwuegbuchunam AU - Kenneth Okechukwu Okeke AU - Moses Olatunde Aponjolosun AU - Sunday Okore Y1 - 2021/11/25 PY - 2021 N1 - https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ae.20210502.16 DO - 10.11648/j.ae.20210502.16 T2 - Applied Engineering JF - Applied Engineering JO - Applied Engineering SP - 72 EP - 76 PB - Science Publishing Group SN - 2994-7456 UR - https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ae.20210502.16 AB - The International Maritime Organization (IMO), an apex global maritime regulatory body continuously promotes operational strategies aimed at reduction of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emissions especially from commercial shipping operations. Shipping companies are responding in a number of ways which includes use of turbochargers as engine enhancers to improve fuel consumption efficiency and hence reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Turbochargers are also attached to enhance the output of internal combustion engines without increasing their cylinder capacity. Recent trends have pointed to increasing use of turbochargers as enhancers to prime movers of marine vessels. This paper analysed the relationship between outputs of turbocharged engine and naturally aspirated one employed as marine vessel prime movers. Data on engine parameters of turbocharged engine and the naturally aspirated one were collected from ship operational log and analyzed using mathematical models. Results showed that for the same sizes of marine engines, the turbocharged engine was more efficient than the naturally aspirated one. Specifically, the volumetric efficiency, the brakepower and the specific power were higher in the turbocharged engine when compared with the naturally aspirated one. Findings showed that turbocharged marine diesel engines based on their higher power output efficiency could continue to dominate naturally aspirated ones in marine prime mover applications. It is recommended that all ship operating companies should adopt turbocharger technology or retrofit their existing fleet to improve operational efficiency. VL - 5 IS - 2 ER -
Information
Email: