[esailor Team]

Date 31st July 17
Examiner David Langlands
Time 1.5 hours

1. Type of engine and bore
2. How to assess engine performance
3. Draw power card. Explain how to find power
4. If one unit not performing, then procedure for overhaul including all calibfrations
5. Draw main engine starting air system and safeties
6. Air compressor safeties and checking of bursting disc and safety valve
7. Steering gear pipe leak. What alarm on steering motor
8. Cooling water tests
9. Battery checks and specific gravity of battery
10. Free surface effect
11. Angle of loll
12. What is ISM and how it affects us
13. Fire bulkhead. Classes
14. Boiler safety valve setting
15. Fixed fire system. Co2 , hypermist
16. Dry dock inspection
17. Earth fault monitor what is alarm value
18. Fuel testing. How often
19. Life boat davit checks , how to check brakes.

Date 24th may 2017
Glasgow
Naez haider

1. Type of ship
2. Starting air diagram and explain ahead astern
3. IG system explain alarms and trips. IG survey
4. Fixed fire fighting system
5. Crankshaft deflections and reasons for taking them. Plot the readings on the graph
6. Chain tightening procedure and power cards and piston overhaul.
7. What to do if boiler safety valve starts lifting. Procedure for overhaling. Types of safty valve and components inside
8. Different types of motor starters
9. Draw and explain auto transformer
10. Condition monitoring system
11. Chapters of ism
12. Duties as second engineer on board
13. Work and rest hours
14. Marpol and annex VI

James Mc Rae
Glasgow
David Langlands
Pass
1. Tell me about last ship
2. What is stroke and bore of your engine
3. How is power assessed
4. Draw power card and explain how power is calculated
5. How to do piston and liner overhaul. Procedures and did you have a liner honing tool
6. How were engines started
7. Draw staring air diagram from compressor to engine
8. Explain safeties on this system
9. Tell me about your propulsion system
10. How are they controlled and about PID system
11. How to control Azimuths in an emergency
12. How to go about setting a boiler safety valve
13. What L.O testing is done on board
14. Explain free surface affect
15. Initial hull inspection in drydock
16. Fixed fire extinguishing system
17. What is the state of co2 system when vessel in drydock
18. What alternative firefighting equipment’s are provided to you when in dry dock
19. How will you undertake a fire drill on your ship
20. Life boats and liferafts
21. Routine maintenance on MOB boat davit
22. How to make fresh water produced on board safe for drinking
23. Cooling water tests why we do them and levels
24. How are large AC induction motors started on your ship? Star delta.thyristors
25. Why are earth fault dangerous
26. What will happen if you have a second earth fault
27. Insulation resistance test and why we do it and what values
28. List some certificates carried on board.
29. What PM system do you use on board
30. Are you required to have a PMS on board
31. As second engineer, what are your responsibilities as per ISM
32. What is second engineer’s role in safety meetings
33. Stopped and passed

Random Questions
1. Complete overhauling
2. Liner wear rate
3. Liner measurements
4. Piston ring material, top middle bottom
5. Stern tube lubrication diagram
6. Poker gauge
7. Steering pump diagram
8. 100% redundancy
9. Motor overload capacity
10. Earth faults
11. Single phasing
12. Ums checklist
13. Dead man alarm
14. Gravity closing of sounding pipes
15. Piston pressure test
16. Piston clearances
17. Freeing ports, bulwarks
18. Db tank construction
19. Hull stresses
20. Angle of lol
21. Free surface
22. Co2 system
23. Hyper mist system
24. Bilge keel
25. Pintle and jumping clearances
26. Dry dock hull inspections
27. Power card calculation
28. Early and late injection
29. Garbage regulations and colour codings
30. Special areas of sox and nox requirements
31. Marpol
32. 2nd engineer duties
33. Ism code

1. How will you take over as second engineer
2. What documents will you check
3. Where will you find critical spares
4. Why are critical spares required. ISM requirement
5. Where will you find information about machinery servicing
6. What machinery survey can you carry on board
7. How to check machinery performance
8. What type of cards do you take on main engine other than power and draw card
9. Why do you take light spring card
10. Show power card and draw card
11. Show how will you come to know injector leaking
12. What is procedure for taking power cards
13. Why do you run main engine on high load 80%, any particular reason
14. Why do you take permissions. Inform bridge and what specifically do you tell them
15. How will you calculate power
16. Why early injection is a problem and causes
17. How will you adjust timing on a fuel pump and where
18. What are other reasons of late injection
19. What is CCAI how it affects
20. How to carry out crankcase inspections
21. What clearances will you check on crosshead
22. Why stuffing box and their function
23. Suppose you taken out stuffing box with piston, what checks will you carry out on stuffing box
24. What will happen if stuffing box ring wear
25. What will you check on bottom end bearing
26. What checks on con rod bolts
27. What checks on chain
28. How will you adjust chain
29. What effect will a slack chain have on main engine
30. How does crankcase explosion occur
31. Why omd is fitted on crankcase and working principle
32. What is action if omd alarm goes off
33. What will you check on thrust block
34. Draw thrust pad
35. What is clearance on thrust pad
36. What information will you get on a lube oil analysis report
37. If your engine lube oil viscosity reduce what are the causes and how will affect engine
38. What info will you get from fuel oil analaysis
39. What are you looking for in the report
40. What are cat fines and how will they affect the engine
41. Why is sodium and vanadium a problem
42. What is annex VI and regulations
43. What are the limits of sulphur
44. How can you control nox
45. What information will you get on nox technical file
46. Why do we carry out boiler water tests
47. Why do we add anti foaming agent
48. How will you set boiler safety valve
49. Where will you get information of setting pressure
50. Suppose your boiler is not firing what are the problems
51. What is the voltage you will get in a transformer
52. What are the safeties fitted on a MSB
53. How will you test reverse power trip
54. How will you test under voltage trip
55. If you are not getting any voltage on the panel what is the reason
56. What is AVR and how does it work
57. How will you check diode
58. What types of motors will you get on board
59. What is difference between induction motor and synchronous motor
60. What types of starters do you get on board
61. Why are different types of starters used
62. Draw star delta starter
63. Why we use star delta
64. What will happen if motor will run on star
65. What is thermistor and how it works
66. What fire fighting equipment on board
67. If you want to flood co2 what precautions you will take
68. How will you satisfy the surveyor that the co2 system is in good condition
69. Routine inspections on the co2 system

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