Boilers

1. (a) State the standing instruction you, as Chief Engineer, would issue with respect to
the action to be taken in the event of a boiler uptake fire.
(b) State how the incidence of uptake fires may be minimised.
(c) State the reasons for blowback from the furnace of an au!iliary boiler.
(d) State the standing instruction you, as Chief Engineer, would issue with respect to
the avoidance of boiler furnace blowback.
". #s a Chief Engineer of a ship, prepare emergency procedures for au!iliary boiler for
following situations
(a) $igh water level in a boiler gauge glass
(b) %ow water level in the gauge glass, including water level not visible in gauge
glass.
(c) &uptured boiler tube
State how you will you prevent above occurrences
'. Severe pitting has been detected in way of the tube to tube plate connection on a
waste heat boiler.
(a) State the reasons for such pitting
(b) State, with reasons, the action to be taken in order to enable safe operation of the
boiler to continue.
(c) E!plain how the incidence of future pitting can be minimised.

(. )escribe how you, as Chief Engineer, would prepare an au!iliary boiler for survey by
a classification society.
*. (a) Sketch and describe a fully automatic +,ackage+ boiler.
(b) -dentify the safety devices fitted and their function.
.. #s a Chief engineer what instruction you will give to your
engineers for safe operation of #u!. boiler during periodically
unattended operation.