Know:

- to automate ship power plants, including the specifics of controlling ship diesel and gas turbine plants;

-  ensure the control of fuel systems, including:

-  knowledge of methods for limiting the fuel supply to main engines,

-  knowledge of the specifics of controlling parallel engine operation, the purpose and main functions of main engine fuel injection systems working in conjunction with fixed and variable pitch propellers;

Be able to:

- analyse operating modes, including ship automated control systems, ship diesel and gas turbine engines as control objects;

- ensure automated control of fuel and lubrication operations, use and maintain DAU and ACS SEU systems;

- apply modern methods of automatic control theory, logical circuit algorithms and block diagrams to analyse the operation of control and monitoring systems.

Topic 1.1 Features of ship diesel engine control.

Topic 1.2 Means of limiting fuel supply by automatic frequency regulators, preventing overload and incomplete fuel combustion in engines.

Topic 1.3 Optimal control of parallel operation of ship power plant engines.

Topic 1.4 Features of ship gas turbine engine control.

Topic 1.5 Dynamics equations of a new gas turbine engine and a ship diesel engine with gas turbine supercharging as objects of rotation speed control.

Topic 1.6 Start-reverse system of MAN B&W type engines.

Topic 1.7 Ship engines with electronic control.

Topic 2.1 Throttle regulators, gas temperature regulators, pump regulators for marine

gas turbine engines.

Topic 3.1 Purpose and main functions of DAU systems.

Topic 3.2 DAU systems for main engines operating with fixed pitch propellers (FPP).

Topic 3.3 Features of DAU systems for main engines operating with controllable pitch propellers (CPP).

Topic 4.1 Centralised control systems for ship engines.