Established in 1976, these laboratories are primarily utilised for our undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, consultancy and research.
They are fully supported by marine, mechanical and electronic technicians, with facilities for fabrication and machining to allow test rigs and prototype equipment to be produced in-house.
Teaching includes work relating to marine diesel engine construction, operation and performance assessment, heat exchanger design, exhaust gas emission measurement and analysis, and also gear design and manufacture. Each year a number of students undertake experimental and practical projects which are conducted in the laboratories.
The laboratories includes a number of marine diesel engine test beds providing a wide range of power outputs. Uniquely, a large medium speed engine is available which is fully instrumented. Parameters such as:
can be measured and analysed using an advanced data acquisition system. This engine has been adapted to enable one unit to operate using different fuels. This allows research into methods to improve engine efficiency, fuel consumption and emissions.
A fuel atomisation test and measurement rig is available which has been specially designed to investigate and allow fuel atomisation to be analysed and modelled. In addition to those traditional instruments for engine tests, the Jones Laboratory has engine emissions measurement equipment capable of determining all kinds of species from the engine exhaust gasses such as NO, NO2, HC, CO, SO2 , CO2, O2.
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