Diesel Generator Protections. A Quick Check for an Inspector

Greetings! In this article, I recommend that you familiarize yourself with the main protections of diesel generators on a ship, which inspectors like to check. There are many protections on ship diesel generators and one article is not enough to consider them all, so only the main protections will be described, which are most often demonstrated when passing a particular check.

Using the example of the Daihatsu 6DE-18 diesel engine and the Taiyo FE 647A-8 brushless synchronous generator, we will consider the protection of marine diesel generators and how to test them. Other most common diesel engines (Himsen, Yanmar, MAN B&W) found in the merchant marine fleet will also be partially covered.

Incinerator protections. A quick check for the inspector

Greetings! In the previous article "Boiler protections. A quick check for the inspector" we discussed the main boiler protections that are checked by different inspectors. In this article we will consider the protections of an equally dangerous mechanism (increased attention from MARPOL inspectors) - the incinerator. Based on the previous article, you can easily check all the incinerator protections using the same methods, so this article will be smaller in volume and I will not describe all the checks in detail.

We will check the protections using the example of the Japanese incinerator Miura BGW-30N, but we will also "hook" a little on the Volcano, Kangrim and Atlas incinerators.

Boiler safety devices. A quick check for the surveyor

Greetings! In this article I recommend that you familiarize yourself with the main safety devices of auxiliary boiler on a ship that inspectors like to check. It does not matter which inspector came to the ship (PSC, flag, annual surveyor, etc.), usually the checks are not much different.

Surveyors mainly look at how critical protections work (selectively), i.e. those protections that stop the boiler (shutdown protection). They are not very concerned with auxiliary signals (alarms). But it is necessary to be prepared for everything, i.e. for the fact that the inspector can check the auxiliary alarms of the boiler.