Activity

CHIEF ENGINEER’S RESPONSIBILITIES

Overall in charge of delegating engine room watches at sea and is responsible to the Master for all the onboard machineries, both mechanical and electrical when at sea, on standby and in harbour.

1. Operation and maintenance of all machineries including auxiliaries, pumps, alternators, and deck machinery.
2.…[Read more]

TOPICS:

1. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE ON ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITY
A) Duties and responsibilities:
– Awareness and understanding
– Crew management
– Administrative management
– Regulations and policies (ISM, ISPS, MARPOL etc)
– Vessel PMS

B) GENERAL TECHNICAL ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE
– Main Engine and Aux Engine: Routine maintenance, overhauling, related…[Read more]

For Chief Engineer and Second Engineer,

This post will cover preparations for drydocking until entering.
Shipyard departments: Carpentry, Electrical, Hull, Marine, Mechanical, Piping, Electrical, Steel, Support service

1. Repair Specifications (AKA “Docking Specs” etc)
Intro: This is a collection of jobs to be done by the shipyard, and usually…[Read more]

For Chief Officer,

What are the plans that you will prepare prior to a docking survey? Contents of capacity plan.

10- Docking Plan, Plug Plan, General Arrangement, Shell Expansion, tank arrangement, Load Density Plans, Rigging Plan, capacity plan,
Fire Arrangement Plan, CO2 Plan,

3- stability booklet, repair list, certificates for…[Read more]

Q5. (a) Explain how the power developed in an engine cylinder is determined:
(i) From indicator cards.
(ii) By electronic means.
(b) State which of these is the most representative and why.

Q4. (a) Give an example of each of the four types of two-stroke engine indicator diagrams, explain how each is taken and the use to which it is put.

Q4. (b) Illustrate two defects which can show up on a compression card.

Q4. (c) How is cylinder power balance checked on a higher-speed engine?

Q3. (a) Explain why in large, slow-speed engines, power balance between cylinders is desirable.

Q3. (b) State why is never achieved in practice.

Q3. (c) Describe how power balance between cylinders of a medium-speed engine is improved.

Q3. (d) Describe how power balance in a slow-speed engine is improved.

Q2. (a) State why bottom end bolts of four-stroke engines are susceptible to failure.

Q2. (b) Sketch a bottom end bolt of suitable design.

Q2. (c) Explain how good design reduces possibility of failure.

Q2. (d) State how the possibility of failure is reduced by good maintenance.

1. (a) State the ideal cycle most appropriate to the actual operations undergone in the modern diesel engine.

(b) Give reasons why the actual cycle is made approximate to the ideal heat exchange process.

(c) State how the combustion process in the actual cycle is made approximate to the ideal heat exchange process.

Main Switch Board or MSB to be installed on a raised platform.
The location where Switch Board or MSB is installed should have good ventilation, illumination and affected by minimum vibration.
No water or oil pipes should pass above the Switch Board or MSB.
There should be adequate space around allowing comfortable operation ans maintenance.
The…[Read more]

MSB Safeties

Minimum 3mm rubber mat (approved and certified) in front as well as back of switchboard.
Dead front-end switchboard.
Insulated door handles (Ebonite)
Panel doors are also earthed.
Can’t open door, if breaker is closed.
No pipeline to pass in vicinity.
Minimum 1m free air surrounding switchboard.
Short circuit protection (ACB g…[Read more]