Governor of engine is a piece of instrument and an integral part of engine working system. Well the main function of a Governor is to control the speed or RPM of the engine in a control manner. What happens is that when load on engines changes, engine tends to accelerate or decelerate. During increase in load, RPM of the Engine […]
Boiler is an important piece of machinery that is being on ship. It is used to generate steam and in turn this steam is used for various purposes like heating of fuel oil, laundry etc. Since Boiler is a pressurized vessel and it is needed all the time, proper functioning of this piece of equipment is always necessary. There […]
This article discusses about the working and construction of an incinerator. The incinerator is used on board ship to burn the waste products generated on board and other waste. It is also very important machinery and thus it is necessary for us to know about this machinery. So, let’s discuss about this machinery in little […]
Condensers (If we are talking about cooling down a fluid) or heat exchangers (If we are talking in general) are essential part of any industry. Due to these pieces of equipment, the transfer of heat takes. In a refrigeration process, condensers are used to cool down the refrigerant. But in different machineries they can be doing heating work also and […]
One can absolutely say that the incinerator is like a boiler and the only difference is that in this machinery we do not generate the steam. Construction of Incinerator What is an incinerator? It is like a waste recycling unit. Like boiler here too we have the rounded shell in which the combustion process is carried out.We […]
Fresh water generator as name suggest is an machinery onboard which is used to generate fresh water for various purposes like drinking, washing etc. An engineer should know as how to operate this machinery effectively as water is a crucial fluid onboard. This machinery uses the principal of evaporation of water at lesser temperature if done so in low pressure […]
When you are making drawings or representing a particular valve of piece of instrument, you cannot draw them every time. For making our life easy we have symbols for representing them, just see it below. Symbols for Valves Pressure Reducing Valve Applications: They are mostly used where we have a demand of reduced pressure. Like […]
This article discusses about the oily water separator, which is very important auxiliary machinery on board ship. Basically, oily water separator is used in order to treat the bilge waters, so as to avoid any type of oil getting into the sea with water. It can be considered as waste water treatment. So let’s see what we have here. […]
Emergency Generator like any other normal generator on ship is required for the purpose of production of power (Electricity). But as name suggests, it is to be used in case of the emergency like Black Outs, getting ship to live after dead condition. Since the entire generator on a ship lies in the engine room, there has to be […]
In this article you will get to know about the shipboard ventilation system used on ship. Furthermore, the two system namely: high and low velocity has also been discussed in detail. Shipboard ventilation is a necessary action that needs to be carried in order to protect the cargo that is being taken on ship from […]