David – Paisley

2nd Engineer <3000KW Oral Exam
18/11/19 @ 1100. Duration 75mins approx (Questions not in correct order)

1. Tell me about your last ship (Ship operation, engines, bore and stroke)
2. How can you tell the health of your engines – parameter check, trend analysis, performance check, excess vibration or noise, leaks etc
3. High exhaust gas temp’s on one unit – reasons and actions?
4. Draw a fuel injector and explain how is works
5. What pressure does fuel get injected into the cylinder – approx. 250 bar
6. Fuel injector inspection – spring, needle valve seat, nozzle wear and atomisation holes
7. Draw a power and draw card
8. How to measure mean effective pressure and indicated power
9. 4 stroke unit overhaul full procedure (asked me to stop once I had removed gudgeon pin)
10. Checks on liner
11. Checks on piston
12. Would you replace the full set of piston rings?
13. Why and how do we check butt and axial clearances?
14. Draw a JCW system
15. Fresh water treatment (Ph, Nitride and Chlorides)
16. What is the purpose of the 3 way valve in JCW system
17. Explain P.I.D
18. Entry into a fuel tank procedure
19. Gas monitor levels
20. L.O treatment on board – FW, SW, viscosity, metal contaminants and TBN
21. During viscosity test oil is running much quicker than new clean oil. What does this mean (I said viscosity has decreased and oil could be contaminated with fuel and to confirm TBN would go down and TAN would increase)
22. Explain TBN and TAN
23. Hull bottom survey (FWD to AFT)
24. Rudder inspection
25. Explain the pintle, jumping and rudder carrier bearing clearances
26. What is your knowledge of ISM code?
27. How ISM code affects you as a 2nd Engineer?
28. List as many certificates an international vessel should carry
29. What is the DoC?
30. What is the SMC?
31. Explain how a jerk pump works?
32. What determines the amount of fuel delivered to your injectors
33. Fuel conditioning on board your vessel (filters, purifier)
34. Explain how your Alpha Laval purifier works
35. Purpose of gravity disc? How do you know you are using the correct size of GD?
36. How does a CPP system work?
37. Emergency CPP procedure
38. FW generator operation – I gave the examiner a basic description of how it worked and told him that to use it you need to be 20 miles away from land
39. Vessel is grounded. What do you do? Full procedure
40. How can you as an engineer affect stability
41. Brief discussion on FSE, Angle of List and Angle of Loll
42. Pinhole leak coming from SW inlet pipe, would you make a temporary repair?
43. Explain start air system on your vessel – start air motor
44. How does an air start explosion occur?
45. Air compressor safeties
46. Air receiver safeties
47. Star-delta explanation
48. What is an Earth fault
49. What are the dangers of an earth fault? Then multiple earth faults?
50. What do you understand about I.R tests
51. Lead acid battery maintenance
52. MARPOL special areas definition – he did not want me to list the areas
53. OWS ORB entries
54. OWS working principle
55. ECA’s current sulphur content and upcoming changes to MARPOL annex 6 on 01/01/2020
56. What fixed fire fighting system do you have on board?
57. How does NOVEC 1230 work
58. What maintenance is done to your FF system
59. Assume you have a CO2 system; what happens to this system during dry-dock?
60. What is the difference between a steering motor and normal motor
61. ISM audit preparation
62. Planned maintenance system jobs
63. Tell me some of the routine jobs you carry out on board – Test QCVs, bilge alarms, run emergency gen etc
64. Emergency generator requirements

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