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SOLAS Requirements:
Emergency Generator, Battery
and Emergency Fire Pump

Emergency Generator & Fire Pump

SOLAS stands for Safety of Life at Sea, consist different regulations to set up a minimum
standard for various equipment and machinery installed at the ship to ensure the safety
of ship, machinery, and persons working onboard. Here in this blog, I am going to
discuss SOLAS regulations for the Emergency generator, Battery, and Emergency fir
pump.
SOLAS Regulations for Emergency
Generator of the ship-
All passenger and cargo vessels shall be provided with emergency sources of
electrical power, for essential services under emergency conditions.
Emergency generator and emergency switchboard of the ship should be located
above the uppermost continuous deck, away from machinery space, behind the
collision bulkhead.
The main switchboard of the ship should not interface with supply, control, and
distribution of emergency power.
Emergency source of power should be capable of operating with a list of up to 22 ½
° and a trim of up to 10 °
The generator should have independent fuel supply having flash point not less
than 43°C.
Emergency generator should be capable of giving power for the period of 18 hours
for the cargo ship and 36 hours for the passenger ship.
Emergency generator should start at 0°C and if temperature fall below this then
there should be heating arrangement.
Emergency generator should come on load automatically within 45s after the
failure of main power supply.
If the emergency generator fails to come on load the indication should be given to
ECR.
Emergency generator should have two different starting arrangement
Primary may be the battery, should fully charge all time and capable of providing 3
consecutive Start.
Secondary may be pneumatic or hydraulic, capable of providing 3 consecutive
starts within 30 mint, and 1st start within 12 mint.

Regulation 42- the Emergency source of electrical

power in Passenger Ship-
 The emergency generator shall be automatically started and connected within 45
sec
Capable of supplying simultaneously at least the following services for the period
of 36 hours
Emergency lightening (at the alleyway, stairways, and exits, muster and
embarkation stations, machinery space, control room, main and emergency
switchboard, firemen’s outfits storage positions, steering gear room)
Fire detecting and alarming system
Internal communication equipment
Daylight signaling lamp and ship’s whistle
Navigation equipment
Radio installations, (VHF, MF, MF/HF)
Watertight doors
One of the fire pumps, emergency bilge pump
The emergency generator shall be automatically started and connected within 45
sec
A set of automatically connected Emergency batteries must be capable of carrying
certain essential services for the period of 30 min
Emergency Lighting
Navigational Light
Fire detecting and Alarm System
Internal communication equipment
Daylight signaling lamp and ship whistle

Regulation 43- the Emergency source of electrical

power in Cargo Ship-
The emergency generator shall be automatically started and connected within 45
sec
Capable of supplying simultaneously at least the following services for the period
of 18 hours
Emergency lightening (at the alleyway, stairways, and exits, muster and
embarkation stations, machinery space, control room, main and emergency
 switchboard, firemen’s outfits storage positions, steering gear room)
Navigational Light
Fire detecting and Alarm System
Internal communication equipment
Daylight signaling lamp and ship whistle
One of the fire pumps, emergency bilge pump
Radio installations, (VHF, MF, MF/HF)

SOLAS Regulations for Battery of the

ship –
The ship where the emergency source of electrical power is an accumulator battery,
it shall be capable of carrying loads without recharging and battery voltage
throughout discharge period must be maintained within 12% above or below its
nominal voltage.
The battery system is automatically connected to the loss of main power.
Batteries are required as the transitional power source for 30 min for following
items-
Fire detecting and fire alarm
Navigational Light
Emergency Lighting
Internal communication equipment

List of equipment connected to the

Emergency Power source on the ship-
Emergency Lighting
Emergency steering motor
Emergency fire pump
Emergency air compressor
Necessary machines to start one generator
 Emergency alarms
Engine room ventilation fan
Watertight door
Communication
Fire detecting and fire alarm
Bridge control console
Cargo control console
Engine room control console
Battery charger for emergency generator
Foam pump
The rescue boat, life raft davit & Lifeboat
Navigational and signal lights
Battery charging panel
The compressor of breathing apparatus
GMDSS radio console
Remove control Valves
Navigational Equipment

SOLAS Regulations for Emergency Fire

Pump
The requirement for the number of fire pump
In Passenger Ship of:-
4000 gross tonnage and upwards should have at least three fire pump and less than
4000 gross tonnages should have at least two fire pump
In Cargo ship of:-
1000 gross tonnage and upwards should have at least two fire pump and less than
1,000 gross tonnages should have at least two power-driven pumps, one of which
shall be independently driven.

Regulations for Emergency Fire Pump

 All passenger ships of 1000 GRT and upwards and in cargo ships of 2000 GRT and
upwards must have fixed emergency fire pump independently driven by a self-
cooled compression ignition engine or an electric motor driven by electric power
from the emergency generator
Emergency fire pump must be located outside of the E/R room, in the steering flat,
shaft tunnel or in the forward part of the ship.
No direct access between the engine room and emergency fire pump. If access
provided, it should be through an airlock arrangement.
Emergency fire pump must have own suction, the total suction head should not
exceed 4.5 meters under any conditions of list or trim of the ship.
The capacity of the pump not less than 40 % of the total required the capacity of
the fire pumps but in any case not less than 25 m3 / hr.
Should be capable of delivering 2 jets of water with minimum pressure not less
than 2.1 bar.
The prime mover engine at that unit must be hand started and able to start with
one man.
If the pump is fitted above the water level, the self-priming arrangement must be
fitted.
If it is diesel engine driven,
Easily started in cold condition (0°C by hand cranking),
Fuel tank for engine shall contain sufficient to run on full load for at least 3 hrs
Sufficient reserve fuel for 15 hrs, store outside the machinery space.
Diesel power source of pump started in cold condition of 0° C by hand or by the
power at least 6 times within a period of 30 minutes and at least twice within 1st 10
minutes.
If motor driven: emergency power supply heating arrangement to be provided.
Tank to have sufficient fuel for at least 3 hours and reserve fuel outside main
machinery space to allow the pump to run for additional 15 hours.
Isolation to allow the pump to run for additional 15 hours not more than 40 meters
to pressure integrity of fire main system.(Diameter of fire main: sufficient for
maximum discharge from 2 pumps operating simultaneously except for cargo ship
the diameter need be sufficient for a discharge of 140 m3 / hour.

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Abhay Kumar :He is working as engineer in Shipping Corporation Of India, member of

Nielsons Educational Forum. He is alumni of Marine Engineering & Research
Institute(MERI) Mumbai. He loves driving and writing blog in his free time. Specialty :
Tanker ship

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