David – Paisley

2nd Engineer Under 3000 KW NC
18/11/2019
1 hour 10 minutes – PASS

1. What type of vessel have you sailed on?
2. MGN 69
3. High exhaust Gas temp on one unit. What are the causes and your actions?
4. How do you check engine performance?
5. Draw and explain Power and Draw cards
6. How to calculate indicated power? How do you find MEP?
7. What’s your planned maintenance based on?
8. 4 stroke unit overhaul
9. What do you check on your cylinder head?
10. What do you check on bottom end bolts and when do you replace them?
11. What fuel pumps do your engines have? Explain? EUI
12. Draw Jacket water cooling system
13. Explain PID controller
14. How do you test your Cooling Water? How often? What do you look for?
15. LO tests? How often?
16. What could low viscosity mean?
17. What could cause an air start explosion?
18. Safeties on a air compressor? Water cooled 2 stage
19. What causes pressure on the inter cooler?
20. Safeties on an air receiver?
21. Why would the fusible plug melt?
22. How does your air start motor work?
23. Draw and explain your gearbox?
24. Emergency propulsion control procedure
25. ISM code? How does it affect you as 2nd engineer?
26. What is Port State? What do they check?
27. Certificates
28. Enclosed space entry procedure?
29. Fuel conditioning? Working principle of purifier?
30. What do you change for different type of fuel? How do you know what gravity disc to select?
31. What electrical starters would you have on large load motor
32. Draw star delta starter
33. What do you understand about IR testing?
34. What’s an earth fault?
35. Dangers of earth fault? Multiple ones?
36. How would you find the earth fault? What earth fault detector do you have?
37. Battery maintenance
38. No voltage on Gen. what’s the cause?
39. Sea water pipe leaking
40. Vessel is grounded. Ballast tank is holed. What could you do to sort it?
41. What is free surface effect? Ways to prevent it?
42. Hull Survey
43. What would you check on a bilge keel? Looking for sacrificial
44. How do you measure stern tube wear down? Where would you measure it?
45. What would you check on your rudder?
46. What fire fighting system do you have? How does it work?
47. What happens to it in dry dock?
48. Draw a double bottom tank