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Cylinder Covers: Sulzer RD Cylinder Cover

Cylinder heads must withstand high pressures and temperatures, requiring complex cooling passage and rib designs. They also house valves. Exhaust valves experience high local temperatures requiring special design considerations. Combustion chambers are formed by either the cylinder cover or piston crown. Original Sulzer engines used single-piece covers but developed cracks, leading to a two-part design with an inner cast iron and outer cast steel section joined by a soft iron ring. More recent engines use a single-piece bore-cooled steel cylinder cover.

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Cylinder Covers: Sulzer RD Cylinder Cover

Cylinder heads must withstand high pressures and temperatures, requiring complex cooling passage and rib designs. They also house valves. Exhaust valves experience high local temperatures requiring special design considerations. Combustion chambers are formed by either the cylinder cover or piston crown. Original Sulzer engines used single-piece covers but developed cracks, leading to a two-part design with an inner cast iron and outer cast steel section joined by a soft iron ring. More recent engines use a single-piece bore-cooled steel cylinder cover.

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Cylinder covers

Cylinder heads are exposed to maximum gas pressures and temperatures. They must
therefore have adequate strength and cooling. This results in complex structures of
strengthening ribs and cooling water passages. The design of heads is further
complicated by the need to house various valves, fuel, air start, relief etc.

Where exhaust valves are situated in the head the structure design has to take into
account the relatively high local temperatures around the valve which can cause
thermal stressing. The combustion chamber may be formed by either shaping the
cylinder cover or the piston crown. A flat piston crown is usually used with a shaped
cover further complicating design and construction.

As the head runs at a fairly high temperature the cooling water must also be at a
reasonably high temperature. This further thermal stressing. It is therefore usual to
have the cooling water for the head in series with the jacket. The covers are attached
to the cylinder block by means of large diameter bolts. The gas loads acting on the
head are thus transferred to the cylinder block from which the tie bolts transfer it to
the bedplate and then to the hull of the ship.

The original Sulzer engines employed single piece cylinder covers, but thermal stress
cracks developed in relatively uncooled section were the conical part of the
combustion chamber changed to the flat top.

In order to avoid this problem some allowance was required for thermal expansion,
and this was provided by having a two part cover with an inner and outer section.

The inner section was of cast iron due to the complicated shape and the outer
section cast steel for strength, a soft iron ring provided the joint between inner and
outer sections. When the two parts are bolted together the head may be treated as a
single unit.

For recent engines the single piece bore cooled steel cylinder cover has been
developed and presents no particular problems.

Sulzer RD cylinder cover


B & W cylinder safety valve

This type of valve is suitable for use with the special long studs used in modern
engines. The safety valve is small an indicates the onset of over load. To release
excessive pressure from the cylinder the cover is able to stretch the studs release the
pressure and reseat. Hopefully cleanly.< class ="noindent">

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