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Sea Valves
About the sea valves, please refer to INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON LOAD LINES,
Regulation 22.
Here in this chapter the inspection of the water suction and discharge valves (hereinafter called
"sea valves") during a docking survey is described.
If a sea valve and the distance piece are holed, water enters into the hull
and may cause a major casualty such as sinking of the ship; therefore, the inspections should be
14-1-1 Hull
"Sea inlets and overboard discharges below the waterline are to be examined and valves and cocks
together with their fastenings to the hull are to be dismantled and examined. Dismantling may be
dispensed
with at the discretion of the Surveyor, provided they were dismantled and examined at the last
Docking Survey."
14-1-2 Machinary
"All openings to the sea including sanitary and overboard discharges in the machinery spaces and
pump room with valves and cocks are to be examined internally and externally. The fastening of
valves and cocks to the hull are also to be examined."
14-2 Position of valve
The weather deck discharge pipes are fitted above load water line without any valves but most of
discharge and inlet pipes are in stalled below the load water line directly to shell plate through the
distance piece or the sea chest.
Vertical
Horizontal
Angle
Photo.14-5 kinds of valve (1) from the catalogue of Niikura Kogyo Co.Ltd.
(2) Construction
There are four types of valves depends on the construction.
Storm valve
Angle valve
Sluice valve
Butterfly valve
1) Storm valve
Fig. 14-3 is a sketch of the construction. If sludge accumulates in the pipe, the valve plate
automatically opens with the weight of sludges and discharges them. After discharging, the
counterweight fitted to one side of the valve plate closes the valve, It prevents the sea water from
outside come into the hull.
The stem ascends or descends when the handle is rotated. When the valve disc at the end of the
stem descends and comes in contact with the metal latch in the dis shaped valve seat, the
suction/discharge stops.
14-4-2
(1) Corrosion and cracks
A major problem in valves is a corrosion of the valve body. In old ships, openings appear suddenly
because of corrosion, water floods into the engine room and in bad case the ship sinks.
Examine the thickness of body by hammering; if it feels thiner, open the valve completely and
inspect thoroughly the internals . If a rubber lining has been provided, corrosion will be small;
however, if the rubber lining has partly peeled off, concentrated local corrosion occurs.
Even if other area is is satisactory, holes might develop at the peeled off spots.
In angle valves and globe valves, corrosion in valve body, valve stem and valve seat can be
carefully examined, in addition to corrosion in the
casing, sometimes, cracks are also detected in the casing.
In Sluice valve, the grooved disk guide is provided on both sides of the casing. It prevents horizontzl
movement of the valve disk. When this guide is heavily corroded valve disk do not move smoothly.
(2) Valve connection bolts or studs
Bolts or studs used for securing the valve to the sea chest do not have any problems when they are
made of stainless steel. But if they are made of mild steel they rapidly corrode because they are
immersed in bilge.
If the base of the valve is, corrosion progresses rapidly. In some cases, bolts head is disappeared.