Engine Room Deck 3

COPT Platform
• Cargo Oil Pump Turbine (COPT) Platform is the first platform when we
come across on deck 3 of engine room arrangement.

• This COPT platform is only on tanker ships.

• This platform consists of –

• Cargo oil pump steam turbine.

• Cargo oil pump turbine condenser or dumping steam condenser
Cargo Oil Pump Steam Turbine
• here are 3 CARGO OIL PUMPS and these pumps are driven by the
turbine and the turbine is driven by the steam.
• These pumps are used to charge and discharge the oil cargo from the
respective cargo holds.
• During discharging we require more amount of steam to drive the
turbine in an adequate manner to discharge the oil cargo from the
ship to the big oil tanks on a port.
• That is why we use a steam turbine because we can vary the speed of
discharge by varying the amount of steam according to the location of
an oil tank on a port.
Cargo Oil Pump Steam Turbine Condenser /
Dumping Steam Condenser
• After rotating the turbine, the steam goes to COPT condenser and this
condensate steam is cooled down by the seawater supplied by ‘COPT
condenser seawater pump’ then that condensate goes to hot well to
increase the temperature of the feedwater going for a boiler.
Ballast Water Pump Motor
• They pump water in and out of the ballast water tanks during loading,
off-loading and trim of the vessel.
Central Cooler
• Engine room arrangement consists of central cooler on deck 3.
• There are 2 central coolers, one is in continuous use and another one
is on standby mode.
• Nowadays we do not directly use seawater in various machinery
(mainly for jacket cooling of a main and auxiliary engine) because of
high chances of scale formation and corrosion.
Auxiliary Feedwater Pump
• There are two vertically mounted centrifugal pumps.
• One is in continuous use and another pump is on standby mode.
• These are the dedicated pumps for economiser and composite boiler
to supply feed water.
• These pumps also take suction from the hot well and supply it to the
feed check valve for economiser and composite boiler.
Main Engine Camshaft Lube Oil Cooler
• It is a shell and tube type of heat exchanger in which lube oil is in shell
and tubes are carrying LT water for cooling of lube oil.
• Nowadays cooling medium is freshwater to avoid the scale formation
and corrosion of tubes. i.e. it reduces overall maintenance.
• Lube oil come to this cooler after the lubricating cams of the
camshaft.
• At a time, 1 tonne of camshaft lube oil is in continuous circulation.
Main Engine Lube Oil Cooler
• It is a shell and tube type of heat exchanger in which lube oil in shell
and tubes are carrying LT water for cooling of lube oil.
Bilge Primary Tank
• It is a bilge primary tank of capacity 1 tonne which holds the majority
of oil particles.
• Oil and water mixture comes to a primary tank from a bilge holding
tank of capacity 30 tonnes.
• And from the primary tank, the oil and water mixture heat with the
help of steam heater, then most of the oil goes to oily bilge tank and
rest of the mixture (mostly contain water) goes to oily water
separator with the help of a bilge pump.
Stuffing Box Lube Oil Settling Tank
• Generally, if you are working for the management company, then this
lube oil is transferred to stuffing box lube oil settling tank where the
lube oil is heated with the help of steam heater and lighter phase can
be further used for batch purification by purifying it
Main Engine Side Operating Console
• It is an operating console for the main engine in case of failure of
main engine control from a bridge and main engine control from the
engine control room.
Scavenge Air Manifold
It is a manifold which stores scavenge air and supply it to the engine
cylinder for proper combustion.
The scavenge air enters through the scavenge ports in the lower part of
the cylinder liner.
The exhaust gas is expelled through the centrally mounted exhaust
valve in the cylinder cover.
Main Engine Auxiliary Blower
• In a two-stroke diesel, electrically-driven auxiliary blowers are usually
provided because the exhaust gas-driven turbocharger cannot provide
enough air at low engine speed.
Main Engine Upper Crankcase
• A crankcase is a housing for the crankshaft in a reciprocating marine
diesel engine.
• The enclosure forms the largest cavity in the engine and is located
below the cylinder(s), which is a multi-cylinder engine, usually
integrated into one or several cylinder blocks.
Main Engine Scavenge Air Cooler
• The number of scavenge air cooler is equal to the number of
turbochargers mounted on the main engine.
• The cylinder of the main engine is supplied with the scavenge air from
one or more turbochargers.
Oil Mist Detector
• Oil mist detector is a device which is constantly monitoring the oil
mist concentration in the main engine crankcase of each unit.
Engine Room Deck 4
COPT Condensate Pumps
• Two pumps are provided out of which one pump is running
continuously and the other one is kept on standby.
• Type of Pumps – Vertically mounted centrifugal pumps.
• It takes suction from the COPT condenser and pumps it to the hot
well and in the hot well that condensate is used to increase the
temperature of distilled water and then supplied as feed water to the
boiler
Fuel Oil Transfer Pump
• The motor of this pump is on the 4th deck and the actual pump is
located in bilges below it.
• Type of Pump – Vertically mounted screw pump.
• Function – Transfer fuel oil from fuel oil wing tank to fuel oil service
tank.
Diesel Oil Transfer Pumps
• The motor of this pump is on the 4th deck and the actual pump is
located in bilges below it.
• Type of Pump – It is a gear pump placed horizontally.
• Function – It transfers diesel oil from the diesel oil double bottom
storage tank to diesel oil settling tank.
COPT Condenser Sea Water Pump
• The motor of this pump is on the 4th deck and the actual pump is
located in bilges below it.
• Type of Pump – It is a centrifugal pump placed vertically.
• Function – It supplies seawater to COPT Condenser to cool down the
condensate so that this condensate can be supplied to hot well as
feedwater.
Low Sea Suction Chest
• One sea suction chest is located on the port side and other is located
on the starboard side because even if the ships run aground, then
also we can take suction from another side.
Main Sea Water Pumps
• During engine room flooding, the water from bilge wells has to be
pumped out so that it recedes or remains static because if water
comes out from the bilge well then that can go into the motors
located on the 4th deck and thus motors can be short-circuited.
Marine Growth Prevention System
• It is purely for preventing marine growth in sea chest and sea suction
pipe.

• Marine growth will cause a reduction in handling the volume of the

sea chest pipeline.
Fresh Water Generator Ejector Pump
• One pump is supplying seawater to the ejector of 1st freshwater
generator (FWG 1) and the other pump is supplying seawater to the
ejector of 2nd freshwater generator (FWG 2).
Dedicated Low Sea Suction Chest For Ejector
Pump
• This chest supplies seawater only to the FWG ejector pump.No other
pump gets distribution from this chest. It is dedicated to FWG only.
Deck Seal Sea Water Pump and Refrigeration
Cooling Sea Water Pump
• It is a centrifugal pump and horizontally aligned.
• Deck seal is especially used in tankers (oil tankers).
• It is a part of an inert gas system.
• Before passing to the cargo tanks, the inert gas will pass through the deck seal, which acts as a
non-return valve & will prevent the backflow of inert gas into the Engine Room Casing.
• This pump supplies the seawater to maintain the seal continuously.
• Deck seal is on the main deck, near the pump room.
• The refrigeration cooling seawater pump is used to supply the seawater to the condenser of the
refrigeration system present on ships.
Main Engine Air Cooler Cleaning Tank
(ACC9)
• The cleaning of the main engine scavenge air cooler is often being
carried to the airside of the cooler if it gets fouled.
• If the air side of the air cooler gets fouled then less amount of
scavenging air will enter the scavenge manifold and that is why
cleaning is required at regular intervals.
• The chemical named ACC9 is used for this purpose.
Stern Tube Lube Oil Drain Tank
• From the bottom of the stern tube, a small pipe takes the lube oil to the
drain tank. A suction filter is also provided to filter the oil.

• From this tank, the oil is taken to the stern tube lube oil cooler where
this oil is cooled and then with the help of stern tube lube oil pumps
(Gear Pumps) this oil is taken to the stern tube lube oil high gravity tank.

• When the stern tube lube oil high gravity tank is overflown then that
lube is taken to the stern tube lube oil low gravity tank via a pipe by
completely gravitational flow of lube oil.
Stern Tube Forward Seal
• The only main function of stern tube lube oil forward seal is to
prevent oil leakage into the engine room.
Stuffing Box Lube Oil Drain Tank
• This tank is provided on deck 4 of engine room arrangement of ships.
• Dirty stuffing box lube oil goes to stuffing box lube oil drain tank but in
case of management companies, this oil goes to stuffing box lube oil
settling tank where it is heated, purified and can be reused.
• But in case of ownership companies this oil directly subjected to
waste oil service tank.
Main Engine Scavenge Air Lube Oil Drain
Tank
The oil comes to this tank from under-piston space and basically, this oil
is unburnt cylinder lube oil and unburnt fuel oil ( if piston ring is
leaking ).

This oil is directly subjected to the waste oil service tank with the help
of a sludge pump.
Main Engine Lube Oil Pump
• Main engine lube oil pump is provided on deck 4 of engine room
arrangement of ships.
• This is a vertically mounted pump whose impeller is inside the sump.
• This pump is used to transfer the lube oil to the purifier and then this
oil is subjected to the lube oil cooler and finally, this oil comes to the
main engine for lubrication.
Sludge Pump
• Sludge Pump is provided on deck 4 of engine room arrangement of
ships.
• For handling waste oil (sludge oil) from the various sludge tanks.
• It transfers waste oil to waste oil service tank so that the oil can be
further taken to the incinerator to burn.
• Example :- Oily bilge tank to waste oil service tank or purifier lube oil
sludge tank to waste oil service tank.
Bilge Pump
• It is mainly a reciprocating type of the pump.
• The main function of the bilge pump is to transfer bilge water to the
bilge holding tank and to the oily water separator.
Oily Water Separator With 15 PPM
Equipment
• The purpose of oily water separator is to remove the oil particles from the
water.

• Bilge water is passed through the OWS where the oil particles in it are
removed.

• The water with oil particles less than 15 PPM is then thrown overboard.

• Two Stage Oily Water Separators :- These contain two units – A separator
unit and a filtrating unit.
Main Engine Camshaft Lube Pump
• It is a gear pump and it is used to discharge the oil to the camshaft
lube oil cooler.

• It takes the suction from the main engine camshaft lube oil drain tank.
Main Engine Camshaft Lube Oil Drain Tank
• It has the capacity of 1000 to 2000 litres.

• Main engine camshaft lube oil pumps deliver lube oil to cam-case and
exhaust valve actuator pump.

• From there, a return line comes to this drain tank.

• Magnetic filters are provided in this line which takes the unwanted
elements away.
Lube Oil Drain Tank
• This tank is provided on deck 4 of engine room arrangement of ships.
• Lube oil come to this tank from setting tank. i.e. the oil inside the lube
oil drain tank is a high phase oil (highly viscous oil). It has one steam
heater.
• This oil can be reused in case of emergency. i.e. we can transfer this
oil back to the main engine after purification otherwise this oil is
subjected to waste oil service tank.
Fuel Oil Drain Tank
• This tank is provided on deck 4 of engine room arrangement of ships.

• All the heavy fuel oil from settling tank come to this tank. i.e the oil
inside the fuel oil drain tank is a high phase oil (highly viscous oil) and
this oil can be used in case of emergency otherwise is subjected to
waste oil service tank.
Air Condition Cooling Sea Water Pump
• This pump is provided on deck 4 of engine room arrangement of
ships.

• This pump supplies seawater to the air conditioning unit for

accommodation which is located on accommodation deck 1.

• It is used in the condenser of the air conditioner.

IGS Scrubber Sea Water Pump
• Inert gas produced from the boiler goes to the scrubber tower before
passing to cargo holds.

• An Eductor (nozzle) is fitted on top of scrubber tower which sprays

water on that inert gas so that all the dirt and impurities settle down
with water and only pure inert gas goes up and is then supplied to
cargo holds.

• This pump supplies that seawater to the eductor of scrubber tower.

High Sea Suction Chest
• In shallow water where the under-keel clearance is less, we use high
sea suction chest and when the ship is out at the ocean where the
under-keel clearance of the ship is more, we use low sea suction
chest.
Fire General Service Pump & Fire Bilge And
Ballast Pump
• Fire pumps can be used to pump out the water in case of flooding
because they have a very high capacity of pumping
Crankcase Doors
• These doors are located on the port side of the main engine. By
opening this door, you are supposed to go inside the crankcase for
overhauling. These doors are made of light aluminum alloy and the
hinged type and you are supposed to de-attach the hinge and keep it
aside.
• During overhauling, open the crankcase doors of all the units so that
an adequate amount of air can go inside and the person inside will
not feel suffocated
Crankcase Relief Valve Door
• Crankcase relief valves must be fitted to all units and in case if oil mist
detector fails to detect the concentration of oil, then relief valve lifts
so that high pressure can be released and thus avoid the crankcase
explosion.
• The valves allow the pressure of primary or minor explosion to be
dissipated and prevent possible rupturing of the casing.
• The valve instantly closes when the pressure drops and thus prevents
the ingress of air, eliminating the possibility of a major explosion.
Thrust Block
• This block is used to absorb the thrust which is producing by the
propeller shaft and linearly distributes the thrust to ship’s hull.

• Nowadays it is inside the crankcase so there is no need for separate

lubrication. i.e. lubrication of thrust block is done by main engine lube
oil system
Flywheel
• A flywheel is a rotating mechanical device that is used to store
rotational energy. Flywheels have inertia called the moment of inertia
and thus resist changes in rotational speed. For example, flywheels
are used in reciprocating engines because the energy source, torque
from the engine, is intermittent (occurring at irregular intervals).
Turning Gear Motor
• There are tooths present on the flywheel and tooths are engaged with
turning gear motor in order to rotate the flywheel in case of
overhauling of the engine or at the starting of the main engine.
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