ORAL QUESTION BANK FOR MEO CLASS II

(PREPARED BY ALOK KUMAR MITRA)

FUNCTION -3 :
1. Constructional difference between a Crude Oil Tanker and a Product Carrier?
2. Under what condition the Upper Hopper Tank in a Bulk Carrier is required to be
ballasted?
3. The purpose of Torsion Box in a Container Ship?
4. What are the factors for which Parametric Rolling can take place in a Container Vessel?
5. What is Emergency Towing Arrangement, where it is fitted, how strengthened?
6. What should be the Windlass Heaving Speed? How it is tested?
7. What type of brake is used in Windlass? How Chain is attached to Anchor? What is
Bitter End and Clench Pin?
8. Additional Safety feature of Bulk Carrier as per SOLAS Chapter XII. What Chapter
XIII deals with?
9. What is factor of Subdivision? How Floodable Length Curve is drawn?
10. Special construction to sustain Panting and Pounding effect?
11. What structural strength is necessary underneath the Main Propulsion machinery
bedplate?
12. How is the Resin Chock provided underneath the Main Engine Bedplate?
13. What is Angle of Loll? How it is to be tackled?
14. What is Statical Stability? What are the effects of increasing beam or freeboard on
statical stability and GM ?
15. What is time period of roll? On what factors it depends?
16. How GM is obtained by Inclining experiment? What precautions to be taken?
17. What is Free Surface effect? On what factors the shift of ‘G’ depends?
18. What are the requirements to be fulfilled before entering the Dry Dock?
19. Purpose of Port State Control? Provisions under which Port State Control inspection
are done? What is Clear Ground?
20. Purpose of ISM Code? Name of the Certificates issued? Their Validity? Verification
Process called? Designated Person?
21. Under what condition Interim Certificates issued? Examples of major and minor Non
Conformity.
22. ISPS Code? SSO and CSO? Levels of Security?
23. Fire detection in cargo holds? How the system works? How monitoring is done?
24. Fire detection and fire fighting in Passenger Ship accommodation area?
25. Fire fighting on the deck area of an oil tanker? Deck gear for mechanical foam?
Expansion ratio?
26. Differences among Life Boat, Life Raft and Rescue Boat? Painter length? Hydraulic
Release Unit?
27. Personal Life Saving appliances? Difference between SCBA and EEBD?
28. Life Boat safety feature, Testing of brakes?
29. Emergency Generator location? Starting methods, Fuel supply, Emergency loads?
30. CO2 System maintenance?
31. Performance test of Emergency Fire Pump? Pump special feature?
32. MARPOL Annexe I to VI – Discharge criteria?
33. NOx Technical Code and Technical File? EIAPP & IAPP Certificates?
34. EEDI and EEOI – Calculation? Required value? SEEMP main features?
35. Causes of NOx formation? How minimized? SOx emission limit?
36. Measures for Energy Efficiency in Air Compressor, Reefer system, Boiler and Pumps?
FUNCTION - 4 :
1. What is Miller Cycle? How it is minimizing NOx emission?
2. How SOx and NOx emission is minimized by modification within the engine and
externally?
3. On what factors, the feed rate of cylinder oil depends? How the feed rate is altered?
4. What is Surge Line of a Turbocharger? What is its significance?
5. How Turbocharger is matched with the engine?
6. What type of lubrication exists between piston rings and cylinder liner? Which property
of cylinder oil is essential for such lubrication?
7. How Cascade control of Main Engine Jacket Cooling Water system is done? Under what
situation Cascade Control is most suitable?
8. Difference between Main Engine and Aux.Engine Governor? Why conical spring is used
in Governor?
9. On what principle the Thrust Pads take the thrust? How lubrication of Pads is
provided? Type of pads in ahead and astern side in fixed pitch and controllable pitch
propeller?
10. On what principle the Telegraph of Bridge and Engine Room works?
11. In (P+I+D) control of electronic Governor of Aux Engine DG Set – How Proportional,
Integral and Derivative Control works?
12. What is Proportional Band and Offset in Proportional Controller? How Offset can be
minimized and completely eliminated?
13. What is the purpose of having Super VIT Fuel Pump? Difference between
Conventional VIT and Super VIT? Range of working? Why not in the lower ranges?
14. What are Balanced, Semi Balanced and Unbalanced Rudder?
15. Why Turning Moment while moving ahead is more than that while moving Astern?
16. Why torque on rudder stock is more while going Astern than while going Ahead?
17. Why Rudder Angle is limited to 350 only?
18. What is 100% or 50% capability of Steering? Why 350 on one side to 300 on the other
side rudder movement is considered for measuring capability of steering gear?
19. How to hydraulically lock the rudder at a position?
20. What is Synchro in Electro Hydraulic Steering Telemotor? What is its purpose?
21. In all Electric Steering Gear what type of motor is used and how ahead to astern
movement is performed?
22. What is Hunting Mechanism in Steering system?
23. In all Hydraulic Steering Telemotor, what is the function of Bypass Valve in the
Transmitter and spring in the Receiver?
24. What is “FAIL SAFE’ and “FAIL SET” feature of Pneumatic Diaphragm operated
valve in automatic control system?
25. What is Valve Positioner in Pneumatic Diaphragm operated valve? Why it is used?
26. On what principle Fluid Flow measurement is done? How Viscotherm works?
27. On what principle O2 Analyser works?
28. Purpose of Intercooler and Aftercooler in Air Compressor?
29. What should be Pressure Ratio in each stage of an Air Compressor to give maximum
efficiency and minimum work done?
30. Suggest modifications in Air Compressor to improve energy efficiency under SEEMP?
31. In a Tandem type 3-stage Air Compressor, how bumping clearance is reduced in all 3
stages?
32. In Reefer system, how Degree of Subcooling and Degree of Superheat can be improved?
33. In Reefer system, where Equaliser connection Expansion Valve is suitable?
34. Safeties incorporated in Reefer system? How Unloader works?
35. How axial thrust in multi stage Centrifugal Pump is minimized?
36. How Radial thrust in one stage large Centrifugal Pump is minimized?
37. Why tank type submerged Centrifugal Pump is preferred than Displacement Pump in
Main Engine Lub.Oil duty?
38. Effects of Speed, Suction Lift, Impeller dia, Impeller width and Viscosity of fluid on
Centrifugal pump performance?
39. How is the Purifier drive from motor to bowl rotation?
40. Purpose of Gravity Disc and Paring Disc in Purifier? Differences between Purifier and
Clarifier?
FUNCTION : 5
1. What are the classes of electrical insulation and their maximum temperature. Which
electrical machinery in a ship should have the highest class of insulation and why?
2. What types of cables are used on board? What cables are used in hazardous area, say
Pump Room? State the specification of a cable.
3. Which parameter of a cable indicates its current carrying capacity? Why multistrand
conductors are used in cables?
4. What is skin effect in cables?
5. What is the principle of working of an Induction Motor? What is Slip?
6. What would be the rotor speed and rotor frequency of a 3phase 4pole 50Hz Induction
Motor running at 4% slip?
7. What are the losses in an Induction Motor?
8. What is Core Loss? How it happens? How it can be minimized?
9. Full load Core loss and Copper loss are 200 watt and 1000 watt respectively. What will
be these losses at half load?
10. What is Magnetic Humming / Tooth Locking or Cogging of Induction Motor? How it
can be avoided?
11. What are the significance of IP Number and Frame Size of an Induction Motor?
12. What is the purpose of a Starter to start an Induction Motor? Why Induction Motor
takes high starting current?
13. How a Star-Delta Starter works? What is its difference with a Soft Starter?
14. What are the ways of speed control of Induction Motors?
15. What are the effects of reduced supply voltage on Induction Motor Torque, Speed and
Starting Current?
16. What is the significance of Air Gap? How much it should be? Effects if excessive air
gap?
17. Under what conditions maximum starting torque and maximum running torque can be
obtained by the Induction Motor?
18. What are the protections provided to a motor?
19. What is Single Phasing? Causes of Single Phasing? Effects of Single Phasing in a
Motor? What protection are necessary against Single Phasing?
20. Difference between Induction Motor and Synchronous Motor?
21. Why Synchronous Motor is not self starting? What are the methods of starting it?
Application of Synchronous Motor on board?
22. What is the significance of Power Factor? How it can be improved other than a
Capacitor?
23. What are the requirements to start a motor with star delta starter? How a motor
rotation may be reversed which is started by a star delta starter?
24. How voltage build up takes place in a Ship’s Alternator? Causes of no voltage
generation? How to rectify?
25. What type of excitation used in Alternator? Excitation voltage and current?
26. How an AVR works? Purpose of Zener Reference Bridge?
27. KW Load sharing of two generators are not same while in parallel – Reasons?
28. KW Load sharing are same but currents and power factors are different between two
parallel generators – Reasons?
29. Requirements for parallel operation of two generators? What is phase angle matching?
Why incoming generator to be at higher frequency?
30. What is a Synchroscope, how it works? How Earth Fault testing is done?
31. Requirements for taking Shore Connection? What action to be taken if shore frequency
does not match with ship’s frequency? What is Preferential Trip?
32. What is a Current Transformer? How to replace a faulty Ammeter operated by
Current Transformer when the supply is on?
33. Why C.T.Secondary not to be opened when the primary is energized? Why one
terminal of CT Secondary is to be kept ?
34. What are the protections provided to the Alternators? How Overcurrent Relay,
Reverse Power Relay and Under Voltage Relays are tested and adjusted?
35. Switchboard and ACB maintenance?
36. Difference between ACB, MCCB and MCB?
37. What is Earthing and Bonding? What should be Earthing Resistance?
38. Storage Battery Room safeties? What are Primary and Secondary Cells?
39. How Charging and Discharging action takes place in Pb Acid Batteries?
40. Alkaline Batteries Charging and Discharging? How Gassing and Topping Up takrs
place?
41. Causes of battery short circuit? How battery voltage drop test is done?
42. Five causes why Lead Acid batteries capacity fall off during service?
43. Why Ship’s Transformers are air cooled not oil cooled? Why humming noise comes
from near a running Transformer?
44. Condition for maximum efficiency in transformer? Purpose of Open Circuit and Short
Circuit test of Transformer?
45. What is an Auto Transformer? Why 3 nos. single phase step down Transformers are
used on board?
46. What are the requirements for faithful amplification of a Transistor Amplifier?
47. What are the differences between a Crystal Diode and Zener Diode? What is termed as
electrical Relief Valve and why?
48. What is Forward Biasing? What is Self Biasing?
49. Purpose of a Thyristor? How IGBT and IGCT are different from Silicon Controlled
Rectifier? What is Commutation of a Thyristor?
50. What are the differences of Moving Coil and Moving Iron Ammeter or Voltmeter?
FUNCTION – 6 :
1. How Main Engine Cross Head bearing bottom half can be presented for survey?
2. Only one unit main engine Cylinder Liner found Oval in forward –aft direction –
Reason?
3. One Main Engine Unit Bottom end Bearing damaged beyond repair, no spare on board,
how to proceed?
4. One Main Engine Unit Bottom end Bearing was running hot, on opening found a small
patch of greyish black colour inflated surface which caused scoring marks on crank pin
and responsible for heating – Reason? Action to be taken?
5. Main Engine Thrust Pad cover found hot – what action to be taken?
6. How to take Thrust Pad clearance? Effects of higher or lower clearance?
7. Lubrication system of Thrust Pads? Type of Pads used on Ahead ans Astern side?
8. One Main Engine Unit Piston seized – how to proceed?
9. How to remove Main Engine Piston or Cylinder Liner?
10. How Crank Shaft deflection is taken? How to ascertain that the readings are correctly
taken without error? How to find vertical and horizontal deflections?
11. If a Journal pin slips with web between #3 and #4, what effects it will have on engine
performance? How to detect and rectify?
12. What are the modes of vibration main engine is subjected to? How they are minimised?
13. What is the purpose of Bracing? How it is tested?
14. Causes of Turbocharger surging? How to prevent?
15. How to remove the Aux.Engine main bearing bottom shell?
16. Windlass brake – how to operate? How to test?
17. Deck and Engine Room crane speed control? Safety features?
18. Piston alignment within cylinder liner?
19. Tie Rod checks during engine running and stop condition?
20. Checking of Main Engine foundation bolts and Chock?
21. Propulsion Shaft alignment by Piano Wire and Fair Curve alignment? What is
Influence Number in Fair Curve method?
22. Stern tube bearing lubrication? How Leak Proof is made?
23. Propeller material? Proof stress? Dry fitting of propeller? Fixing of sleeve inside
propeller boss?
24. Rudder cracked – how to repair and test? Rudder Pintle bearing purpose?
25. Difference between Welding, Brazing and Soldering? Welding defects?
26. What is TIG, MIG, Explosive and Plasma Welding?
27. Dry docking – preparation before, during and after docking?
28. Difference between Cast Iron, Mild Steel and Stainless Steel?
29. Liner and Crankshaft construction?
30. How to measure Propeller drop and Rudder drop and Jumping clearance?
31. Safety Valve checks, setting of Aux Boiler and Exhaust Boiler Safety Valves?
32. Procedure for checking Boiler alarms?
33. Difference between High Lift and Improved High Lift Safety Valves?
34. Causes of Purifier vibration and Purifier overflowing?
35. Checking of Air Compressor Bumping clearance?
36. Volumetric Efficiency of Air Compressor? Causes of taking longer time to fill up air
receiver? Capacity of Air Receiver? Capacity of Air Compressor?