The Formation of Hydrocarbons in Offshore Reservoirs
The formation of hydrocarbons in offshore reservoirs occurred 300 million years ago being formed by decaying plankton and algae on the seabed. These were then covered in silt, sand and…
DCN – Multiplexing
Multiplexing is a technique by which different analog and digital streams of transmission can be simultaneously processed over a shared link. Multiplexing divides the high capacity medium into low capacity…
Main Engine Operating Troubles
Operational Faults - Engine Receives No Fuel to Start In marine diesel engine which are mainly started by air ,the highly compressed air is used to start the engine when…
DCN – Wireless Transmission
Wireless transmission is a form of unguided media. Wireless communication involves no physical link established between two or more devices, communicating wirelessly. Wireless signals are spread over in the air…
DCN – Transmission Media
The transmission media is nothing but the physical media over which communication takes place in computer networks. Magnetic Media One of the most convenient way to transfer data from one…
Marine Machinery, Engines & Controls
Troubleshooting Marine Auxiliary Diesel Engines (Starting Problems) This article discusses the different starting problems and troubleshooting of marine auxiliary diesel engines. The problems discussed are not turning on air, not…
DCN – Analog Transmission
To send the digital data over an analog media, it needs to be converted into analog signal.There can be two cases according to data formatting. Bandpass:The filters are used to…
DCN – Digital Transmission
Data or information can be stored in two ways, analog and digital. For a computer to use the data, it must be in discrete digital form.Similar to data, signals can…
Layout of Auxiliary Equipment in a Steamship
This article describes the auxiliaries mandatory to the efficient running of a steam turbine ship and their location. Marine Turbine Auxiliaries I have laid out the marine steam ship engineroom as I…
DCN – Physical Layer Introduction
Physical layer in the OSI model plays the role of interacting with actual hardware and signaling mechanism. Physical layer is the only layer of OSI network model which actually deals…


