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19 Marine Engineering Questions And Answers

6⟩ How the priming is done in a centrifugal pumps?

As centrifugal pump is not a self priming pump,separate

priming arrangement is required...

generally,a separate axial pump is provided for this

purpose.The discharge v/v of the centrifugal pump is

closed,and the inlet v/v is opened.The discharge v/v is

opened only after the pump is primed,that is filled with the

liquid to be pumped.

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13⟩ How many types of ships?

Ships are divided into various types depending on their

nature of service.

1. Cargo Ships (Bulk carriers, general cargo carriers,

container vessels, oil tankers, chemical tankers, Product

tankers, gas carriers, Ro-Ro ships). Depending on their

sizes they are again classified as handymax, panamax,

suezmax, afromax, vlcc, ulcc, vloc, vlgc, etc.

2. Passenger Ships

3. Serivce ships, such as cable laying submarines, off shore

supply vessels, dp vessels etc

4. Protection such as war ships, Navy submarines etc.

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14⟩ What is specific fuel consumption and how fuel calculate?

generally it·s refer to the fuel consumtion rate, there

are several deferent way to catlculate the specific fuel

consuption, such as volumetric method and flow method. but

these methods can be taken only in lab. no possible do it

on the sea.

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17⟩ In ship cranes, there is a provision of providing a conveyor for the cable. There is no provision of slip ring. How is it possible?

There r Slip ring arrangement in cranes onboard ships. the

slip rings are present within the crane which is not seen

from outside. the power lines pass throough the centre of

the crane through slip rings. The power line u see out side

is only for grab which comes through the torsion clutch. If

there is no slip ring arrangement the crane cannot turn 360

degrees.

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