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    • JOSHUA GODFREY GMA CANDIDATE 09.09.2020 IAN BELL SOUTH SHIELDS ONLINE EXAM
    • You come down to the engine room in the morning, all units on the main engine have high exhaust gas temperatures. What are the possible causes?
    • How will you identify the actual cause of the problem?
    • Shows a draw card on the screen share, indicating late combustion and afterburn
    • Possible causes of late combustion and afterburn?
    • Chain drive inspection – what defects can occur which then have an effect on engine timing
    • Fuel pump timing – how do we check it
    • Effect on the engine of a leaking fuel injector
    • Fuel injector removed from the engine, what will you test on it, what are you looking for during overhaul
    • Causes of injector nozzle atomising holes to become too wide
    • Filters in your fuel system started to become clogged, causes?
    • What are catalytic fines?
    • Where would you find the catalytic fine content of the fuel?
    • What else does laboratory analysis of fuel show
    • Issues with sulphur in the fuel – environmental and on the engine itself.
    • What causes cold corrosion?
    • What causes hot corrosion?
    • 3rd Engineer has removed a piston from one of the generators for inspection/overhaul. What will you check on it whilst it is in the workshop (full top to bottom inspection, in detail)
    • Why are we so concerned about bottom end bolts on 4 strokes? What are cyclic stresses?
    • Bridge call and inform you the steering gear is acting sluggishly, what are your actions?
    • Sketch a hydraulic system for a 4 ram steering gear, what is the purpose of each of the components
    • Sketch a star-delta starter. Include terminal numbers on the motor terminal box. How does it work?
    • Safeties on a motor
    • Enclosed space entry into a fuel tank for inspection. Start from planning, all the way through to someone collapses inside, what are your actions.
    • Fire starts in the purifier room. Attempts to extinguish it with hand held extinguishers have failed. Engine room is evacuated and you are in charge of fighting the fire, what are your actions?
    • What is included in a fireman’s outfit.
    • What checks should the fireteam perform on the BA set
    • Fire spreads to the rest of the engine room. Master decides to release CO2, take me through the CO2 procedure in detail
    • Why is there a time delay in the pilot CO2 line to the CO2 bottle releases.
    • Which do you do first, open the master valve or open the CO2 release pilot line?

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