What is an engine room bilge oily-water...

Question 1 / 270705eccef9cbacbc34ba4d456e7

Question 1 of 270705eccef9cbacbc34ba4d456e7

What is an engine room bilge oily-water separator designed to do?

Question 1 of 27070

What is an engine room bilge oily-water separator designed to do?

🔍 Key Concepts

• Bilge water composition in an engine room • What MARPOL/USCG rules are trying to keep out of the sea • Typical ratio of water to oil in bilge slops

💭 Think About

• On a normal vessel, which liquid is present in larger quantity in the bilge: water or oil? • Is an oily-water separator mainly protecting the sea from oil, or recovering fuel for reuse? • If you pumped directly overboard after separation, which component must be reduced to a very tiny amount to stay legal?

✅ Before You Answer

• Remember that bilge tanks mostly collect water contaminated with oil, not the other way around • Think about discharge limits in ppm (parts per million): this refers to oil in water, not water in oil • Match the answer choice that describes a lot of one liquid with a little of the other, where the “little” part is the pollutant you’re trying to control

Question 1 of 27070

What is an engine room bilge oily-water separator designed to do?

Remove small amounts of oil from small amounts of water.

Remove small amounts of oil from large amounts of water.

Remove small amounts of water from small amounts of oil.

Remove small amounts of water from large amounts of oil.