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Boiler Operator Training

NIFES offer a two-day on-site steam boiler operator’s course, specifically for boiler plant engineering staff.

NIFES have provided on-site boiler plant operators training courses for decades, the training ensures that the delegates are fully conversant with the latest documentation including the new standard BG01 – Guidance on the Safe Operation of Boilers which replaces Guidance note PM5: Automatically Controlled Steam and Hot Water Boilers.

If required, the training can also incorporate a critical review of Boiler Operating Procedures and accompanying Safety Rules and Procedures and can specifically present and discuss the general requirements for insurance inspections.

NIFES courses typically follow the structure below:

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Course Aim

To raise delegates’ awareness and knowledge levels with respect to the technical principles of steam generation and the safe and efficient operation of boiler plant.

Proposed Content

The proposed content is based on NIFES standard Boiler Operations training course and would be modified to suit the plant and operating conditions at the site. Particular reference will be made to the general requirements for insurance inspections on the site boiler plant.

Course Duration

Two-day classroom based at the clients site, although this can be rearranged to suit the particular requirements.

Course Outline

  • Boiler Design and Construction
  • Steam and pressure fundamentals, definitions and units.
  • Construction and advantages of relevant steam boiler types; foaming and priming. Features of the boilers on site: key design points, TDS requirement, performance

Safety

  • Safe operation of boiler plant
  • the need for insurance and annual inspection.
  • Reasons for boiler failure and explosions.
  • Statutory mountings, fittings and gauges; BG01 and SAFed latest revision

Boiler Fittings and Ancillary Equipment

  • Function of all valves, controls and fittings on the boiler
  • Testing water level controls and alarms.
  • Start-up/shut-down in principal (not detailed)

Boiler Fuels

  • Natural Gas and Fuel Oils.
  • Composition, properties and characteristics.

Combustion Air

  • Constituents of air, air for combustion, the roles of primary and secondary air.
  • Excess air and its effects.
  • Boiler-house ventilation.

The Combustion Process

  • Principles of combustion, ignition temperatures
  • Flue gas composition and factors affecting efficiency

Combustion Products

  • Composition and measurement of main exhaust gases.
  • Interpretation of results, optimum values.

Air Pollution Control

  • Environmental legislation, smoke, gaseous and particulate emissions.

Draught

  • Natural, forced.
  • Fans.

Heat Transfer

  • Radiation, conduction, convection.
  • Temperature, time and turbulence, barriers to heat transfer

Water Treatment

  • Reasons for and types of water treatment, origin of impurities.
  • Effect of over and under-treatment, water sampling, hotwell Sodium salt softening plant – ion exchange principle.
  • Chemical dosing – function of chemicals

Firing Equipment

  • Gas and oil burners construction and operation
  • Burners used on site boiler plant
  • Start-up and shutdown sequence of burner, safety interlocks.

Steam

  • Review of properties of steam
  • latent and sensible heat
  • dryness fraction
  • saturated steam
  • flash steam
  • superheated steam.
  • Distribution pipework, support, expansion, insulation
  • Water hammer
  • Steam traps & condensate recovery

Boiler Thermal Efficiency – review

  • Direct method of calculation, i.e. output -v- heat input.
  • Indirect method of calculation, i.e. by assessing dry flue gas loss, radiation and other losses. Feedwater hotwell temperature, heat recovery opportunities and insulation.

HSE and other Safety Guidance Notes

  • BG01 Guidance on Safe Operation of Boilers (and differences to PM5)
  • SAFed Guidance Notes for Hot Water Boilers (as appropriate)
  • INDG436 Safe Management of Steam and
  • Hot Water Boilers
  • PM60 Steam Boiler Blowdown Systems
  • Pressure Systems Safety Regulations 2000

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