Group assignment / work questions: Bilge systems

Objective:

- Get the understanding of how the bilge system work and which legislation that are related to the
system

Group work: 2-5 persons

(The rules for the assignment)

The assignment consist of different kinds of question where you as a group/team needs to act/answer.

- Every question needs to be done in accordance to the listed order (1, 2, 3, and 4.)
- Every question has its own estimated time of consumption.
- You are only allowed to work with the specific question the teacher has chosen
- Every time new questions are started, an alarm clock will be set. When the alarm sounds everybody
stops working
- At the end of every question the teacher will answer/ give and solution to the subject
- All new comments the teacher gives needs to be added to the groups answer
- The answers need to be drawn/written on the given posters or the whiteboard
Questions
1.

Write on the poster the purpose of the bilge system in the engine room? (Bullets)

Estimated time: 5 minutes

Teaching aid: PDF: Bilge, ballast the running of AUX machinery

Hint: SOLAS
Don’tchp:
moveII-1
construction
!!! – structure, stability, installation reg. 35-1 (2.4)

The bilge system in the engine room is used to remove loose water from machinery, boiler, and cargo spaces. It consists of
a line called the bilge main, which passes along one side and around the forward and after ends of the engine room.
Branches are connected to group valve chests, and each branch from the lower side of a group valve chest is a bilge
suction line connecting with an individual bilge space in a cargo hold. The bilge suction lines connecting the group valve
chests to the hold bilges usually run along the port or starboard bilge wings at each side of the hold and valves fitted in
group valve chests and individual valves in the system. Non-return valves are necessary as a safety measure to prevent
water flowing back into, and flooding, the various spaces connected through branch lines to the bilge main. The purpose
of pumping out the loose water is to keep the cargo hold spaces dry.

Time for teacher evaluation of the previous subject. (remember to write new comments on the poster)

2.

Draw a sketch of the whole engine- room bilge system for an 11.000 teu container vessel.

Estimated time: 15 minutes

Teaching aid: No aid !!!

Hint: themove
Don’t uploaded drawing/ PDF on CN (bilge ballast and fire system.)
 !!!

Time for teacher evaluation of the previous subject. (remember to write new comments on the poster)

Write on the poster the purpose of the OWS [oily water separator]? (Bullets)

Estimated time: 5 minutes

Teaching aid: PDF: Bilge, ballast the running of AUX machinery

Don’tchp:
Hint: SOLAS move  !!! ANNEX I Chapter
MARPOL
Time for teacher evaluation of the previous subject. (remember to write new comments on the poster)

List up the key points of MARPOL ANNEX I Chapter 3.

Estimated time: 10 minutes

Teaching aid: Rulefinder

Hint: Don’t
Specialmove  !!!
areas!!!

Time for teacher evaluation of the previous subject. (remember to write new comments on the poster)

The teacher ends the assignment talking about: Things that can disturb the oily water separation : PDF Oily water
separation USCG information