GEM 312 - Marine Auxiliary Machinery

Course Objectives

1. To introduce the marine auxiliary machineries and their associates
2. To provide students with the design skills and equipment selection principles
3. To provide an ability to the students calculating the capacities of auxiliary machineries.

Course Description

Types of pumps and their matching characteristics, starting systems, air bottles and compressors, anchor windlasses, rudder systems and machinery, heat exchangers, valves, separators, filters and strainers, fire extinguishers and fighting systems, inert gas systems, fuel transfer and bunker washing systems, evaporators and distilling plants, refrigeration rooms, air conditioning principles.