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Boiler Systems
In Boiler Systems , you'll learn ...
- Boiler types and components
- Components that make up the feedwater system and the fuel and combustion system
- The three types of combustion and the impact of each on pollution and boiler efficiency
- Calculations for sizing a boiler
Overview
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Credit: 3 PDH
Length: 39 pages
Water is a useful and cheap medium for transferring heat to the process. Boilers are fuel-burning appliances that provide a means for generating hot water or steam under pressure, which is then usable for transferring heat to the process or used as a hydronic heating system for large buildings.
There are virtually an infinite number of boiler designs, but generally they fit into one of the two categories; (1) Fire-tube boilers or as an easy way to remember “fire in tube boilers”, which contain long steel tubes through which hot gases from a furnace pass and around which the water to be changed to steam circulates and (2) Water-tube boilers or “water in tube boilers” in which the conditions are reversed with the water passing through the tubes and the furnace for the hot gases surround the water tubes.
When water is boiled into steam, its volume increases about 1600 times, producing a force that is almost as explosive as gunpowder. Proper design, selection, maintenance and operation of a boiler system is therefore important with regard to efficiency and reliability. Without this attention, boilers can be extremely dangerous and hence must be treated with the utmost respect.
This 3-hour course covers the fundamentals of steam and hot water boiler types, design, operation, and how the components of a steam generation plant interrelate.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Distinguish among forced-draft, induced-draft, and natural-draft boilers.
- Identify the types of fuel and combustion equipment used in gas-fired and oil-fired applications.
- Calculate the appropriate boiler size for an application.
- Explain essential safety practices for the installation and operation of boilers.
- Differentiate among types of hot-water and steam boilers, including fire-tube and water-tube boilers.
- Identify essential boiler system components, such as safety valves, instrumentation, venting, and pressure-control devices, and explain how they interrelate.
- Describe the function of a feedwater system and its primary components.
- Explain the theory of combustion, water flow, heat transfer, oxygen, water, and fuel reactions.
- Describe basic boiler performance testing methods and procedures.
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 20 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
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Preview a portion of this course before purchasing it.
Credit: 3 PDH
Length: 39 pages
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