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We have been reading a lot about the engine room of the ship and layout Marine Fuels and Fuel
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of components on various platform. We have also learnt about the engine
control room. In this article we will take a look at the engine room Marine Diesel Engines –
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platforms in a serial order starting from the bottom most platform. The

various platforms are central to the arrangement of various kinds of Bronze Rudder and Propeller
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A juinor engineer should know thoroughly about the placement of various

machines even before going on board and this is taught during pre-sea

training and other academic courses. Here is an aid to gain more of this Popular
knowledge and the next few articles will provide a bird's eye view of the

various platforms which form a central part of the machinery arrangement

in a ship's engine room

A sketch of the bottom platform given below will also help you go get a

quick understanding of what is being talked about in this article so take a

thorough look at that sketch along with reading this article.

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Bottom platform of the engine room contains the following:
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Various pumps including :

1. Main sea water pumps

2. Auxiliary sea water pumps

3. Main ballast pump

4. Heavy oil transfer pump

5. Diesel oil transfer pump

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8. Bilge pump

9. Sludge pump

10. Air conditioner condensor pumps

11. Fridge pump

12. Fire and gendral service pump

13. Fresh water generator ejector pumps

14. Piston cooling water pump

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Tanks
There are lots of fluids that need storage space on a ship, and hence there
are different kinds of tanks meant for such storage. Given below is a list of
tanks that you would normally find on the bottom platform of a ship

1. Fuel oil drain tank

2. Sludge drain tank Steam trap explained - How

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3. Lube oil drain tank
4. Lube oil renovating tank

5. Scavenger drain tank

6. Stuffing oil drain tank.

7. Piston cooling water tank.

8. Bilge holding tank.
9. Bilge holding tank

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We have studied about bilges and the bilge pump in detail at this site.
Basically all leakage oil and sludges along with engine room wash water

get collected in the spaces known as bilge wells

There are normally 5 bilge wells inside the engine room as follow

1. Aft bilge well

2. Port side bilge well

3. Starboard bilge well

4. Central bilge well

5. Cargo bilge well

Auxiliary Machinery
Auxiliary machinery does not directly help in ship propulsion but is very

important to carry out related tasks without which it would be literally

impossible to run a ship smoothly. Here are some of the auxiliary

machineries found on the bottom platform of a vessel

Lube oil purifier

Diesel oil purifier

Oil water seperator

Cofferdam and Drain Tanks

What do you mean by cofferdam?

To avoid the mixing of two different liquids a void space/empty space is

provided between two tanks. This prevents any accidental intermixing of
two different liquids due to leaking.

What is stuffing drain tank?

Stuffing box oil can be re-used because the oil is not contaminated.
Whatever oil from crank case is scrapped by the stuffing box from piston
rod; it is drained to the stuffing drain tank.

What is scavenge drain tank/dirty tank?

Whatever waste oil produced in the scavenge spaces or present in the

scavenge spaces is drained to scavenge drain tank.

The oil present in the scavenge space is mainly from the cylinder
lubrication drained along with the unburned carbon particles which are
present due to the blow past of the piston rings. This oil cannot be re-
used so it is called dirty oil.

The scavenge drain oil is mainly burned in the incinerator which is present
in the ship to burn the wast sludge and oils which cannot be used.

In next article we can see the MIDDLE PLATFORM of the engine room .

This post is part of the series: Engine Room

Platforms
This series will give you the clear picture on the ships engine room layout

of different platforms.
1. Layout Of Middle Level Of Engine Room
2. Engine Room Bottom Platform Explored
3. Ship’s Engine Room Top Platform Explored

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