PART V-OTHER TYPES OF PROPULSION 



PLANTS 



Chapter 22 Diesel and Gasoline Engines 



Chapter 23 Gas Turbines 



Chapter 24 Nuclear Power Plants 



Chapter 25 New Developments in Naval Engineering 



The conventional steam turbine propulsion plant, although widely used, 

 is by no means the only propulsion plant in naval use. Chapter 22 deals 

 with internal combustion engines of the reciprocating type— diesel and 

 gasoline. Chapter 23 discusses the increasingly important gas turbine 

 engine. Chapter 24 takesupthenuclearpower plant— a plant which utilizes 

 the steam turbine as a prime mover but which employs the nuclear reactor 

 rather than the conventional boiler as a source of heat for the generation 

 of steam. Chapter 25providesabrief survey of new developments in naval 

 engineering and indicates some of the areas in which future developments 

 may change the nature of our present shipboard engineering plants. 



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