Perspective trends in development of the power plants for passenger vessels and marine structures
The paper covers the problems regarding modem power plants of commercial vessels and offshore structures (above all, oil-drilling platforms) operating on the continental shelf and in the deep-water areas. The paper mainly focuses on the perspectives of installing airindependent units on the submersibles performing underwater geologic explorations, as well as development and exploitation of oil fields. Such units are nuclear power systems, heat engines of closed and semi-closed cycle, electric storage battery systems and the units with electrochemical and chemical fuel elements