Voltage Instability: Causes and Diagnostics in Marine Generators
Comprehensive chief engineer’s guide to the mechanisms, causes, effects, diagnostics, and troubleshooting of voltage instability in marine generator systems. Includes practical shipboard techniques, escalation procedures, safety practices, diagrams, and review questions.
Contingency Planning for Critical Navigational Areas
A comprehensive guide to practical contingency planning for critical navigational areas. Written from a chief engineer’s perspective, this article explains mechanisms, failure modes, operational checks, troubleshooting, escalation, and shipboard best practice for bridge teams, engineers, and officers.
Chart Corrections and Updates in Voyage Planning: Operational Practice and Engineering Oversight
An in-depth, hands-on guide to chart corrections and updates as applied to marine voyage planning. Written for cadets to chief engineers, this article details the procedures, system mechanisms, monitoring, and troubleshooting required for safe, compliant operations.
Route Optimisation Algorithms for Long Voyages: Practical Engineering, Failure Modes, and Real-World Operation
A comprehensive technical guide written from a chief engineer’s perspective. This article covers the operational principles, mechanisms, and troubleshooting of route optimisation algorithms for long voyages. Includes best practices, real-world case studies, failure analysis, and shipboard safety for everyone from cadet to chief engineer.
Winterization of Ship Fuel Systems: Operational Procedures
A detailed, step-by-step operational guide to winterising ship fuel systems for safe, efficient operation in cold climates. Mechanisms, preventative actions, failure scenarios, checks, and troubleshooting included—written from a chief engineer’s practical perspective.
Microbial Growth: Risks to Marine Fuel Tanks – Practical Management and Safe Operation
Microbial growth in marine fuel tanks poses major operational, safety and maintenance risks. This in-depth chief engineer’s guide details mechanisms, risk factors, typical failures, detection, and robust measures for ongoing shipboard management.
Best Practices for Maintaining Fuel Pumps on Ships
Chief engineer-level operational guide for maintaining shipboard fuel pumps. Focused on real-world mechanisms, failure modes, checks, troubleshooting, escalation protocols, and shipboard best practice in the context of safety and reliability.
Water Contamination in Ship Diesel: Detection & Prevention
Chief-engineer-level operational guide to managing water contamination in marine diesel: mechanism, detection, rigorous prevention, testing, troubleshooting, escalation, case lessons, and system upgrades. For the real-world, results-critical environment.
Diagnosing Air Locks in Marine Fuel Systems: A Chief Engineer’s Guide
Comprehensive operational guidance for marine engineers on diagnosing, localising, and resolving air locks in shipboard fuel systems. In-depth coverage of mechanisms, failure modes, detection, procedural checks, stepwise troubleshooting, proper rectification, escalation protocols, and proven shipboard best practice.