Section 1 Appendix 1
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Clasifications Register Guidance Information - Guidance Notes for Machinery Survey Arrangements including The Examination of Surveyable Machinery Items by Chief Engineers, April 2021 - Chapter 3 Appendices - Section 1 Appendix 1

Section 1 Appendix 1

Parent topic: Chapter 3 Appendices

1.1 Applicable machinery items

1.1.1 Typical items of machinery which may be examined by the Chief Engineer.
  1. Main propulsion diesel engines:
    • Cylinder covers.
    • Valves and valve gears.
    • Cylinder liners.
    • Pistons and piston rods.
    • Connecting rods, crossheads, top end bearings, guides, gudgeon pins and bushes.
    • Crankshafts and bearings.
    • Fuel injection pumps and fuel booster pumps.
    • Scavenge pumps, blowers and air coolers.
    • Turbocharger.
    • Detuners, dampers and balancer units.
    • Camshaft and camshaft drive.
    • Main engine thrust bearing.
    • Governor.
  2. Auxiliary diesel engines:
    • Complete unit including coolers and pumps.
  3. Auxiliary steam turbines:
    • Complete unit including coolers and pumps.
  4. Shafting:
    • Intermediate shafts.
  5. Auxiliary machinery:
    • Main engine driven pumps, e.g. bilge, lubricating oil and cooling water.
    • Independently driven pumps (and associated motors and cables where insulation resistance readings are supplied), e.g. bilge, ballast, fresh water cooling, seawater cooling, lubricating oil and oil fuel transfer.
    • Main engine fresh water and lubricating oil coolers.
    • Low pressure heaters used in high viscosity fuel systems of internal combustion engines.
    • Main and auxiliary condensers/drain coolers.
    • Air compressors and their safety devices.
    • Forced or induced draught fans.
  6. Pressure plant:
    • Adjustment of exhaust gas boiler safety valves under steam.
  7. Steering machinery:
    • Steering gear pumps.
  8. Deck machinery:
    • Windlass and windlass machinery.
  9. Refrigerated cargo installations:
    • Refrigerant compressors.
    • Brine pumps.
    • Condenser cooling pumps.
    • Liquid refrigerant circulating pumps.
  10. Ships for liquefied gases:
    • Refrigerant compressors.
    • Cargo gas compressors.
    • Condenser cooling pumps.
    • Circulating pumps (where fitted).
  11. Ships fitted with approved inert gas systems:
    • Scrubber units.
    • Blowers.
    • Independent gas generators.
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