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Marine boilers and heat exchangers: Types, components, efficiency, sealing and cleaning. Steam condensers and water distilling plants. Ship service systems and equipment. Centrifugal separators. Fuel, lubrication, water and sewage treatment systems. Valves and pipelines: pipes, fittings, valves, etc. Pumps and pumping systems. Reciprocating centrifugal and rotary types. Principles of operation, pump head, efficiency performance curves and cavitation. Pump construction and installation. Corrosion and oxidation of metal, pipes, boilers, structural work; cracking of brass; minimising methods. Steam ejectors. Compressors and blowers: reciprocating, rotary and centrifugal, and performance. Deck equipment such as incinerators, engine room crane and accessories. Auxiliary power plants. Propeller shaft and shafting. Steering gears. Bow thrusters, stabilizers and stabilizing systems. Refrigeration. Heating, ventilation and air conditioning. Deck machinery and cargo equipment. Fire protection. Safety and safety equipment. Ship control and instrumentation.

Theoretical and actual cycles. Fundamentals of internal combustion engines. Types of engines. Cylinder arrangements. Fuels and combustion. Performance characteristics. Engine ratings. Efficiency. Design and Construction. Fuel oil injection pumps and injectors. Ship propulsion engine types: direct and geared drive.

Engine performance: indicator, scavenging and supercharging turbocharging and turbochargers. Operation of low-speed engines starting air system and reversing mechanism. Controls and instrumentation. Starting (normal and stopping) operations. Overload operation. Maneuvering. Minimum speed operation in specific conditions. Typical operating troubles. Running in service safety devices. Dynamics of crank gear. Vibration: simple system, torsional, multi-cylinder crankshaft system: imbalance correction. Energy balance and engine efficiency calculations. Various cooling systems in I.C. engines; their merits and demerits. Safety and prevention of mishaps in I.C. Engines: causes and prevention of crank-case explosion and Scavenge fires. Detection of hazard and safety fittings provided to prevent damage. Fuel combustion in I.C. engines and air-fuel ratio. Grades of suitable fuels, preparation of fuels for efficient combustion. Fuel atomization and requirements of fuel injectors. Design aspects of combustion chamber. Fundamentals of tribology. Lubrication: theories, classification and characteristics. Types of lubricants: fluid and solid; their properties, applications, additives and limitations. Bearings and seals; theories, types and applications.

Ships’ Electrical System: DC and AC systems: their circuit diagram, calculations and safety. Circuit and insulation testing and over-current protection. Main and standby generators. Main switchboard, circuit breakers and automatic voltage control. Motors and starters: types, ratings, operation, control equipment and maintenance. Auxiliary Electrical Services: Refrigeration and air conditioning; Galley and laundry; Cathodic protection and Battery Supplies. Special electrical practice for oil, gas and chemical tankers. Classification society’s requirements for electrical equipment for: Bridge controls, Steering gears, and Navigation lights, basic electronics, operations and maintenance: alarm system, engine room telegraph, Radar and counter, Remote helm indicator, Echo sounder, Salinity indicators, smoke detectors, carbon dioxide recorder, Watertight door control, traducers for velocity, force, temperature, flow, pressure, displacement and position measurements. Output devices and feedback control systems. Electric propulsion –systems, engines, generators, motors, excitation system and control. Electrical faults detection, prevention and repair. Class requirements for spares on board. Simple electronics measuring devices, such as VTVM, CRO, IC tester, signal generator. 400 level GET 402 Engineering Project I (2 Units: C; PH 90) Learning Outcomes At the end of this course, the students should be able to: 1. Complete the design phase of a complex engineering problem sourced from industry or community during the SIWES III programme. 2. Demonstrate the connection between engineering product-making and the theoretical courses they have learned following the applicable industry best practices. Course Contents In the second semester of the 400-level students, preferably in groups, work from the university on the identified industry or organization to tackle industry complex engineering problems. Theoretical issues may be provided by the department faculty or industry experts. During the vacation, students will now work full time with the organisation/industry on the project as part of the SIWES III. The students can also go beyond the department and engage in multidisciplinary undertakings. Literature survey, review of existing systems etc. must be achieved to a satisfactory extent. GET 404 Engineering Valuation and Appraisal (2 Units: C; LH 30) Learning Outcomes At the end of this course, the students should be able to: 1. Identify at least three (3) objectives of engineering valuation work, valuer's primary duty and responsibility and valuation terminologies. 2. Describe at least four (4) Valuer's obligation to his or her client, to other valuers, and to the society. 3. Demonstrate with example the engineering valuation methods, valuation standards, and practices. 4. Prepare engineering valuation and appraisal reports and review 5. Discuss expert witnessing and ethics in valuation. 6. Determine price, cost, value, depreciation and obsolescence in real property, personal property, personal property, machinery and equipment, oil, gas, mines, and quarries valuation.

Principles of operation and classification. Rankine cycle, reheat cycle, regenerative cycle, reheat/regenerative cycle and cycle efficiencies. Theory of steam expansion in cascade. Gas turbine. Principles of operation and classification. Brayton cycle, heat exchange cycle, reheat cycle, intercooled cycle, intercooler/reheat/heat exchange cycle, cycle efficiencies, combined steam and gas turbine cycles. Turbomachinery theory: Expansion of fluids in nozzles. Expansion process in turbine stator blades, work done in turbine rotors, velocity distribution across compressor and turbine, pressure, velocity and pressure-velocity compounding. Steam turbine construction: Governors, safety devices, glands, couplings, Astern turbine, blades, rotors, blade fixing, seals, casings and condensers. Gas turbine construction. Rotors, compressor blades, intakes, combustors, turbines and exhausts.

Introduction to electronic configuration, atomic structures, inter-atomic bonding mechanisms, crystal and microstructure. Relationships between structure and properties of metals, alloys, ceramics and polymers. Principles of the behaviour of materials in common environments. Phase diagrams and phase transformations of metal solutions. Effect of engineering design, engineering materials processing, selection, manufacturing and assembling on the performance and service life of engineering materials. Corrosion: types, causes and effects of corrosion, corrosion prevention and mitigation. Fabrication processes and applications. Basic nanotechnology, nanomaterials and engineering applications.

Metallurgical engineers and techno-economic consideration; selection of engineering materials by the metallurgical engineer for specific applications such as in oil and gas, saline environment, construction, high temperature environment, nuclear, electronics, aerospace industries based on techno-economic considerations. Physical, mechanical, chemical, electrical, magnetic and thermal properties of engineering materials: metals, ceramics, polymers, composite and their production. Structure-properties-application relationship of materials and their selection based on cost-benefit analysis, environmental friendliness and safety. Factors governing the selection of materials for specific applications needs.

Chemical reaction equilibria: Review of thermodynamics function. Fugacity and Activity. Free Energy. Partial and integral molar thermodynamics functions. Gibbs-Duhem equations. Ellingham's diagrams for metal-oxide, metal-chloride and metal-sulphide systems. Application of Ellingham diagrams in metal extraction and heat treatment. Assessment of the application of carbon, silicon, hydrogen and other reductants in metallic production. Theory of solutions: ideal, actual and dilute solutions. Deviations from ideal behaviour. Raoult's and Henry's laws. Activity in multi-component system. Phase equilibria: Equilibria of two-component systems. Free energy composition diagrams; Construction of phase diagrams. Reactions between different phases i.e., slag/metal or slag/metal/gas. Pre-requisite: GET 206.

The name MATLAB is an acronym for MATrix LABoratory. MATLAB was written originally to provide easy access to matrix software developed by the LINPACK (linear system package) and EISPACK (Eigen system package) projects. MATLAB integrates computation, visualisation, programing environment and it has sophisticated data structures, contains built-in editing and debugging tools, and supports object-oriented programming. These factors make MATLAB an excellent tool for teaching and research. MATLAB has many advantages compared to conventional computer languages such as C, FORTRAN which are employed for solving technical problems. It is also an interactive system whose basic data element is an array that does not require dimensioning. Engineering students in our universities can use the software package as a standard tool to meet the 21st century industry worldwide needs. Students will use MATLAB’s powerful built-in routines that are cable of enabling a very wide variety of computations and easy-to-use graphic commands capable of making the visualisation of results immediately available. Students need to be conversant with the toolboxes required for signal processing, symbolic computation, control theory, simulation, optimisation and several other fields of applied science and engineering.

Transducers and applications; general instrumentation, basic meters in DC measurement, basic meters in AC measurements, rectifier, voltmeter, electro-dynamometer, and wattmeter, instrument transformers, DC and AC bridges and their applications general form of AC bridge, universal impedance bridge, electronic instruments for the measurement of voltage current resistance and other circuit parameters, electronic voltmeters, AC voltmeters using rectifiers, electronic multi meter, digital voltmeters; oscilloscope, vertical deflection system horizontal deflection system, probes, sampling CRO; and electronic function. generators.