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Boiler Operation 
and Control

Mechanical, Electrical

Course Number: BOC-202

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Course Description:

The course provides attendees with the practices and procedures to understand and maintain a steam boiler. Overview for maintenance technicians, multi-craft tradespeople, building managers, stationary engineers, or anyone seeking to improve their boiler maintenance and operation skills. The goal of this course is to ensure the student gains a comprehensive understanding of commercial, industrial and utility boiler systems. Boiler inspections, operating controls testing and general troubleshooting tips will all be discussed. Overall, this program is designed to help maximize safety, dependability, and efficiency, thus extending boiler life, improving boiler efficiency, saving energy costs for the employer, and establishing a culture of safe work practices among the employees. A well-maintained boiler system is reliable and can last 25 years or more. However, it experiences a lot of wear and tear. We teach preventative maintenance to counteract some of the deterioration and discuss common failures: how to diagnose, troubleshoot and fix them.

 

Each student will receive class books, work activity sheets, self-test progress evaluations, as well as questions from the instructor to make sure they understand the material presented.  It is expected that an attendee will leave the class with the basic knowledge of the subject and possess new found skills to better equip them when they return to their job. A certificate suitable for framing will be issued to each attendee who successfully completes the course. Call, email or check the website for the next time this course is scheduled at the MTI training center or as a ZOOM interactive session.  On-site sessions?  Request a quick 48-hour turnaround quote.

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2-day course: $1095 per person

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Course Syllabus

THERMODYNAMICS
  • Laws of thermodynamics

  • Specific/sensible/latent heat

  • Superheated

  • Steam expansion & quality

  • Boiler rating terms

  • British thermal unit

  • Heat and temperature

  • Pressure Saturated Steam Table

  • Fundamentals of Heat Transfer

  • Steam vs. hot-water boilers

  • Strainer

  • Hydronic system

  • Steam cycle and trap

  • Typical steam piping


BOILER TYPES AND DETAILS

  • Fire-tube

  • Water -tube boilers


CODES & STANDARDS

  • ASME boiler and pressure

  • ASME definitions •Vessel code

  • Safety valves

  • Hydrostatic testing

  • Pressure gauge

  • Annual Inspection R (Repair)


FUELS

  • Solid fuels

  • Fossil fuels

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COMBUSTION SYSTEMS AND FUEL-BURNING EQUIPMENT

  • Combustion system

  • Air for combustion supplied

  • Fuel supply systems

  • Classification of combustion air

  • Ventilation

  • Fuel trains


COMBUSTION THEORY AND TUNING CONTROLS​

  • Combustion

  • Burner tuning

  • Firing-rate control

  • Gas pressure switches

  • Oil pressure switch

  • Manual/auto selector switch

  • System pressure selector

  • Damper position switches •Condensate receiver

  • Feedwater pump & control systems

  • Burner operating controls

  • Burner on/off switch •Fuel selector switch

  • Lead/lag controls

  • Low fire hold

  • Low-water cutoff

  • Flame sensors

  • Boiler management control systems

  • Gauge glasses


EMISSIONS

  • Clean Air Act

  • Deposition control

 

WATER TREATMENT

  • Water treatment based on analysis

  • Three basic impurities

  • Pretreatment

  • Internal treatment

  • Silica

  • Oil contamination

  • Conducting minimum

  • Testing small low-pressure systems

  • Boiler water limits and steam purity

  • pH scale

  • Water treatment classifications

  • Boiler blowdown

  • Condensate corrosion

  • Condensate testing

  • Treatment for hydronic systems

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Course Pictures

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