Course Overview
Students will be given an introduction to Marine Engineering, confined space entry, firefighting, watch keeping, pollution regulations, and ship’s engine room arrangements. They will also be introduced to the ship’s auxiliaries including: pumps, pumping systems, boilers, air compressors, oil purification equipment, water makers, refrigeration, hydraulics, steering gear, and deck machinery. An explanation of marine diesel engine cycles, heat balance, performance measuring characteristics, and timing diagrams will be given. Structural differences between medium and slow speed marine diesel propulsion engines will be described.
Prerequisite(s)
- Admission to the Program.
Credits
11.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:
- Describe the various ship types, their engine room arrangements, and propulsion machinery.
- Describe the various machinery space fire hazards.
- Describe the operation and maintenance of fire mains and sprinklers, CO2 foam, and high fog fire extinguishing systems.
- Discuss basic pollution regulations.
- Describe the procedure for confined space entry.
- Describe the components, operation, and maintenance of valves, positive displacement and dynamic pumps, bilges, ballasts, and domestic water systems.
- Describe the air compression theory and the components, maintenance, and operation of a two-stage air compressor and their receivers.
- Explain how oily water separators work and describe their components and operation.
- Explain how sewage is treated and describe the components and operation of a sewage treatment plant.
- Describe the components, operation, and maintenance of flash evaporators and reverse osmosis water makers.
- Describe fuel, lubrication, and oil storage and transfer systems.
- Describe the principles and operation of oil separators and static filters.
- State the types and uses of marine boilers.
- List the components and mountings of a fire tube boiler, water tube, and exhaust gas boiler.
- Describe the uses, components, and operation of hydraulic and pneumatic systems.
- Describe different steering systems, such as the hydraulic ram type and rotary vane type.
- Describe the operation and use of deck machinery.
- Describe the basic refrigeration cycle.
- Describe the components and operation of a ship’s heating and air conditioning system.
- Describe the operation and cycles of two and four stroke CI and SI engines.
- Define indicated power, brake power, shaft power, and the efficiencies of diesels.
- Describe the basic components of high speed, medium speed, and low speed diesel engines.
- Explain why crankshaft deflections are important.
- Describe a ship’s fuel systems.
- Explain how diesel fuel injection, coolant, and lubrication systems operate.
- Explain how diesel scavenge systems operate.
- Describe the components of turbo chargers.
- Describe the components of reduction gears, couplings, and clutches.
Effective as of Fall 2014
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