IMO e-Reader KTB303E Model Course: Survey of Machinery Installations, 2024 Edition

IMO e-Reader KTB303E Model Course: Survey of Machinery Installations, 2024 Edition

This course equips maritime professionals with the skills to survey and assess machinery installations, ensuring compliance with international standards. Flexible in design, the course can be tailored to the trainees' knowledge levels and training needs. Validated by the IMO Sub-Committee on Ship Systems and Equipment, this course is a vital resource for standardizing machinery installation surveys, enhancing safety and competence across the global maritime industry.

The course covers the requirements of initial, annual, intermediate, and periodical and renewal surveys, as specified in SOLAS. It does not cover preliminary design or plan approvals, nor does it cover the survey or inspection of chemical tankers, gas carriers, special purpose ships or mobile offshore units.

Chapters:

• Foreword

• Introduction

• Part A: Course Framework

• Part B: General outline

• Part C: Detailed outline

• Part D: Instructor Manual

• Part E: Evaluation and assessment

• Appendix I – Guidance on the implementation of IMO model courses

• Appendix II – Instructor feedback on model course

• Chapter 1: Introduction

• Chapter 2: Preparation for survey

• Chapter 3: Machinery survey methods

• Chapter 4: Non-destructive examination (NDE)

• Chapter 5: Survey of machinery systems

• Chapter 6: Survey of boilers and pressure vessels

• Chapter 7: Survey of steam turbines

• Chapter 8: Survey of diesel engines

• Chapter 9: Survey of gearing arrangements

• Chapter 10: Survey of propulsion systems

• Chapter 11: Survey of steering gear systems

• Chapter 12: Survey of equipment for the control of oil discharge from machinery space bilges

• Chapter 13: Ballast water management systems

• Chapter 14: Miscellaneous

• Appendices