Steam Engineering for LNG Ships

The current phase of unprecedented rapid growth in LNG transportation at sea was not really anticipated. The resulting acute manpower shortage in this niche industry sector provides a unique opportunity for the maritime training institutes worldwide.

Singapore Maritime Academy (SMA) has just started a course covering Steam Engineering for LNG Propulsion. The course is jointly organized by Singapore Maritime Academy and Maritime Port Authority of Singapore.

It is a course for the sea-going marine engineers with Class I or Class II COC (Motorship), who would like to get a steam COC for sailing on LNG Carriers using boil-off LNG gas for steam propulsion.

This blog supports development of steam engineering knowledge for LNG ships.


Next Course (Full Time- 15 days), From: 1st September 2008 to 18th September 2008. There are only 12 seats! 8-hour each day [8am to 12noon & 1pm to 5pm] - 6days per week [Monday to Saturday]. The course starts on 1st September & ends on 18th September 2008. However, those not able to finish the assignments in time will be allowed to extend their end date. Course Fees - S$ 2696.40 per participant inclusive of GST.

See 'Course Progression' at the end of this blog.

Click here for online registration! Please also email Kalyan@sp.edu.sg to confirm your attendance.


More details of how the course is run: Read Our Publication

Sunday 4 November 2007

ICERS 8 - International Conference on Engine Room Simulators, Manila, 5th-7th Nov 2007 ...

A paper entitled "Development of Resource-based Learning Organisers to Enhance Training on Simulators" by Kalyan Chatterjea (SMA) & Takeshi Nakazawa (WMU) will be presented at the above conference. The paper and the presentation can be downloaded/ viewed from the following links:

Paper

Presentation

Tuesday 11 September 2007

Register Online for The Next 'Steam COC for LNG Propulsion" [Starting on 24th Sept 2007]

You can now register online for the course at the following link:

Online Registration

After you get to the Singapore Polytechnic Online Registration Site, scroll down to the course 'Steam COC for LNG Propulsion' & click to access direct online registration. If you have any problem & questions, email to Course Coordinator [ Kalyan@sp.edu.sg].

See you on the 24th September!

Saturday 28 July 2007

Content Upgrading for the Steam Certificate of Competency Course at the World Maritime University, Malmö, Sweden

The project is a joint collaborative effort between

World Maritime University (WMU), Malmö, Sweden

& Singapore Maritime Academy (SMA).

Five final years Marine Engineering Students of SMA will be working in the project and they will be at the WMU, Sweden during the one month development period (4th week of Aug 07 to 3rd week of Sept. 07), when, Professor Takeshi Nakazawa, Chair of Technology at WMU will be collaborating with the SMA team. Prof. Nakazawa is a specialist in thermodynamics and simulation-based training of ship's officers.

SMA team will be supervised by Kalyan Chatterjea, Steam C.O.C. Course Coordinator at the SMA.

During the project, Learning Objects would be developed to support training on SMA's Steam Engine Simulator for LNG Carrier propulsion.

Thursday 12 April 2007

Report on the Two Cohorts of "Steam COC Preparatory Courses for LNG Carriers" Conducted at Singapore Maritime Academy

Scope, Learning, Teaching & Assessment Strategy

The course delivery and assessments are through computer mediation. The students use a Knowledgebase Package [CmapTools] and an online LAN-based Assessment System [ExamView] for their learning.

The skill & proficiency training is imparted by a PC-based networked Steam Propulsion Simulator running on dual fuel system [HFO & LNG Boil-off]

The course coverage, learning processes and some of the distinctive features are described below:

  • The content coverage is shown in the following diagram:

Content is presented to the learners through graphical interfaces. An example of the same is given below:
Instead of top-down PowerPoint-based lectures, the learning sessions are conducted in an interactive manner. As an example the students created the following classification and content organization for Boiler Protection:
  • The facilitator introduced the topic of boiler protection. Subsequently the students identified the important issues (subtopics) in boiler protection. Using CmapTools the students developed the graphic representations. Later the students added resources to these subtopics (documents, graphics etc), which further clarified the topic to the learners.
  • The learning process could be seen as the deconstruction of the content and subsequent reconstruction with a graphical overview.
  • The end result is a knowledge base, which is to be reused in future and thus these learning processes enrich the course content incrementally by each cohort.
  • The following pictures shows one of the learning sessions at the Steam Simulation Lab, Singapore Maritime Academy with Mr Zulfiqur Husain, Maritime Port Authority Surveyor auditing the session. The bottom picture is screen shot of the steam propulsion simulator.
  • The students were given 10 to 12 online assignments each week for formative assessment. The figure shows some these online assessments on the server:
  • ExamView, the software suite used for online assessment development has 14 different types of objective questions. The following diagram shows a part of the development screen and a part of the question on turbine:



Saturday 7 April 2007

2nd Cohort of Steam Engineers Completed Course at Singapore Maritime Academy


An enjoyable get together of budding Steam Engineers stamped by Mr & Mrs Zulfiqur Husain of Maritime Port Authorities of Singapore.

Some Details of Team Members