Contact Email:
weichao.shi@newcastle.ac.uk
Description:
The Jones Marine Engineering Laboratory is primarily used for our undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, consultancy, and research.
Teaching
Each year students carry out experimental and practical projects in the laboratories. Teaching includes work relating to:
marine diesel engine construction
operation and performance assessment
heat exchanger design
exhaust gas emission measurement and analysis
The laboratory has a diesel engine test bed which has been adapted to operate using different fuels. This allows research into methods to improve engine efficiency, fuel consumption, and emissions.
Instrumentation
In addition to traditional instruments for engine tests, the Jones Laboratory has state-of-the-art portable engine emissions measurement equipment.
This equipment is capable of determining all kinds of species from the engine exhaust gases such as NO, NO2, HC, CO, SO2, CO2, O2.
Workshop capabilities
The laboratory is fully supported by marine, mechanical and electronic technicians. It has facilities for fabrication and machining to allow test rigs and prototype equipment creation in-house.
This provides the maximum flexibility and adapting test programmes to suit client needs