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Many prospective owners of diesel engines are tempted into fixing arbitrary parameters in specifying their requirements, and often these are copied from specifications drawn up at some more or less remote time by consulting engineers. This is not the right thing to do. To fix a limit on brake mean effective pressure, or piston speed, or rotational speed, for example, is to risk barring access to the most efficient region of operation of a modern machine’s available performance. Alternatively, the result may be to exclude, from the allowable tenders, the machinery which would be the best economic proposition either in invested capital or operating cost.
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Castle, D. (1971). Marine Diesel Engines. In: Bell, P.C. (eds) Mechanical Prime Movers. Mechanical Engineering Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01182-7_4
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