Equipment and Systems - Marine Alternators

Electro Technical Officers and Marine Engineers onboard commercial ships and those undergoing training to qualify for these positions, will find this book useful.

Besides technical information, relevant extracts from SOLAS Regulations, IACS Guidelines, Lloyd’s Register and American Bureau of Shipping Rules, have been included with permission. However, these extracts must be used only for academic purposes.

Relevant documents that are in force and issued to ships and related organisations must be referred to, for complying with Classification Societies’ Guidelines and other Statutory Requirements.

1. The Elementary Alternator

2. Rotor and Stator

3. Armature and Field

4. Rotating Armature Alternators

5. Rotating Field Alternators

6. The Brushless Alternator

7. The High-voltage Brushless Alternator

8. Outline of Operation of a Brushless Alternator

9. Different Generator Cooling Methods

10. Generator Heating

11. Main / Emergency Electrical Systems

12. The Method of Supplying Emergency Power

13. The Electronic Speed Relay

14. Periodic Testing of the Emergency Generator

15. High Voltage Alternator

16. The Brushless Alternator (Rotary Excitation System)

17. Salient Features of a Brushless Alternator’s Major Components

18. The Alternator with a Self-excited System

19. The Alternator with a Separately Excited System The Neutral Point of a Supply System

20. Resistance Earthed Systems