| 摘要 |
A system and method is disclosed for creating and/or maintaining an electrical load on a diesel engine generator for use on a marine vessel in order to avoid the harmful effects of no-load or low-load operation of the diesel engine. The parasitic load bank system (10) utilizes the heat transfer fluid (23) contained in the closed circulation loop (28) of a chilled-fluid air conditioning system (14) for creating and/or maintaining the electrical load on the diesel engine generator (12) by utilizing a load bank controller (44) for diverting a portion (23c) of the heat transfer fluid (23a) being supplied to the vessel's air handlers (42) into heat exchange relationship with the heat transfer fluid (20b) discharged from the air conditioning system's source of heat transfer (18) such that the heat exchanged heat transfer fluid (23f) activates the source of heat transfer (18), which may be a chiller, reverse-cycle chiller or heat pump, to create an electrical power demand on the diesel engine generator (12).
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