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SETS 6000 EM5: Manage Fuel and Ballast Operations

SETS Engine Management 10 questions

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  1. Question 1

    If when in port there is an urgent need to pump bilge water from the vessel, what would you do?
    • Authorise pumping the bilges over the side via the oily water separator.
    • Instruct the watchkeeper to lower the bilges only during night time.
    • Issue strict instructions that the bilges must only be discharged to a shore tank or barge facility.
    • Instruct the watchkeeper to pump bilges to the dirty oil tank or sludge tank and note in logbook.

  2. Question 2

    After bunkering when all the fuel oil tanks have been topped off, which of the listed procedures should be followed next?
    After bunkering when all the fuel oil tanks have been topped off, which of the listed procedures should be followed next
    • The pressure vacuum relief valves should be reset.
    • The tanks should be sounded to make sure the levels are not rising.
    • The tanks should be marked with a bull stamp on the manifold filling valve.
    • All of these.

  3. Question 3

    A pump can empty a tank in 12 hours, another pump can empty the same tank in 4 hours, and another can empty this tank in 9 hours. If all three pumps are used together, how long would it take to empty it?
    • 4/9 hours.
    • 2 and 1/4 hours.
    • 2 hours.
    • 3 hours.

  4. Question 4

    Every ship above 400 tons gross shall be provided with tank(s) of adequate capacity to receive oily residues or sludges such as those resulting from:
    • Heavy fuel oil purification leakages, lantern and scavenge spaces leakages and drainages from engines.
    • Lubricating purification and crankcase leakages from machinery and stern tube leakages.
    • Diesel oil leakages from purification, main and auxiliary engine fuel leakages.
    • All oil leakages in the engine room inclusive of these.

  5. Question 5

    Concerning the designing and construction of Machinery Space Oily Residue Tanks (Sludge Tanks) what requirements, besides capacity, need to be met?
    • All engine room overflows and leakage tanks must drain into them.
    • They must be capable of being pumped overboard through a 15 ppm separating system.
    • They must have cleaning facilities and arrangements to discharge to reception facilities.
    • They must have steaming out and pumping out connections fitted.

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About this SETS test

SETS 6000 EM5: Manage Fuel and Ballast Operations is a SETS test for the Engine department at Management level with 10 questions and verified answers. Common topics include: tank hours, written information, empty, operations, pump, oil, tanks, capacity.

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