Marine Propulsion & Auxiliary Machinery

Enginerooms are ‘more like chemistry laboratories’

Taken from: Marine Propulsion & Auxiliary Machinery April/May 2012


New environmental legislation and the uncertain impact this will have on ships’ propulsion and power generation systems was the clear theme of the Operators’ Forum – the opening session of Riviera Maritime Media’s Annual Marine Propulsion Conference held in March in London. The agenda was outlined in the main sponsor’s welcome address. Oskar Levander, vice president for marine innovation, engineering and technology at Rolls-Royce, said that the major challenge is t....

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