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Bill Nielsen |
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AL. HIGH
PRESSURE BOILER DESIGN: a. Development of boiler design. b. Boiler terminology. c. Firetube boilers; construction, stays, tubes, tube sheets, shell. d. Watertube boilers; construction, drums and walls. e. Electric boilers. f. Boiler construction; support, suspension, refractory. AM.
HIGH PRESSURE BOILER PARTS AND FITTINGS: a. Combustion theory, composition of fuel, fuel heating value. b. Boiler draft equipment; natural, forced, induced, balanced. c. Boiler combustion equipment; coal, oil and gas burners and safety. d. Fluidized bed and grate systems. e. Safety and relief valves. f. Water columns and gauge glasses. g. Steam drum internals. h. Superheaters, reheaters, economizers, air heaters. i. Insulation. AN.
HIGH PRESSURE BOILER OPERATION: a. Boiler prestart, start-up, operation and shut-down. b. Emergency boiler operation. c. Soot blowers, continuous and intermittent blowdown. d. Chemical and mechanical cleaning, boil out and lay-up. e. Hydrostatic testing, inspection, safety precautions. f. Cause and prevention of boiler furnace explosions. AO.
FEEDWATER TREATMENT: a. External feedwater treatment; filtration, lime soda, zeolite,
deaeration. b. Internal feedwater treatment and testing. c. Knowledge and control of: pH, sludge, scale, foaming, caustic
embrittlement, blow-down and corrosion.
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