BOILERS
Analysis of Boiler Efficiency
This course explains how air heaters and preheaters affect boiler efficiency and heat rate. After completing this course, participants should be able to identify boiler parameters commonly associated with air heaters and preheaters and explain how boiler efficiency and heat rate are affected by changes in those parameters. They should also be able to explain how problems with air heaters and preheaters can be recognized and corrected.Course Duration: 1 Hour(s)
Boiler Efficiency 1: Air Heaters and Preheaters
This course explains how air heaters and preheaters affect boiler efficiency and heat rate. After completing this course participants should be able to identify boiler parameters commonly associated with air heaters and preheaters and explain how boiler efficiency and heat rate are affected by changes in those parameters. They should also be able to explain how problems with air heaters and preheaters can be recognized and corrected.Course Duration: 1 Hour(s)
Boiler Efficiency 2: Oil and Gas Fired Furnaces
This course is designed to explain how the windbox, the burners, and the furnace affect the efficiency and heat rate of oil and gas fired boilers. After completing this course, participants should be able to explain how the windbox, the burners, and the furnace operate together to sustain combustion, and how problems with these components can be recognized and corrected.Course Duration: 1 Hour(s)
Boiler Efficiency 2: Windboxes, Burners, and the Furnace
This course is designed to explain how the windbox, the burners, and the furnace affect boiler efficiency and heat rate. After completing this course, participants should be able to explain how the windbox, the burners, and the furnace operate together to sustain combustion, and how problems with these components can be recognized and corrected.Course Duration: 1 Hour(s)
Boiler Efficiency 3: Superheaters, Reheaters, and the Economizer
This course describes how superheaters, reheaters, and the economizer affect boiler efficiency and heat rate. After completing this course, participants should be able to describe how superheaters and reheaters add heat to steam, and how the economizer adds heat to feedwater. They should also be able to explain how attemperators control steam temperatures and protect superheaters and reheaters; and how problems with superheaters, reheaters, and economizers affect heat rate.Course Duration: 1 Hour(s)
Boiler Fundamentals
Boilers are commonly used to provide a source of steam for industrial plants. The plant personnel who operate and maintain boilers need to have a good working knowledge of the fundamental principles of boiler operation. They also have to know how to monitor and control the operation of boilers in their plant and the systems associated with the boilers.Course Duration: 1 Hour(s)
Boiler Instruments and Controls
This course is designed to review some of the major points covered in previous courses of the heat rate improvement series, and to cover additional points related to boiler efficiency. After completing this course, participants should be able to describe how changes in parameters that are monitored in the control room can affect boiler efficiency. They should also be able to identify conditions that an operator should routinely inspect at the boiler and its associated equipment.
Course Duration: 1 Hour(s)
Boiler Technology
What type of boiler should you install? How large should it be? What is involved in boiler maintenance? This interactive online course will inform you about the latest Boiler Technology available in the industry and provide critical information regarding types of boilers, opportunities for energy efficiency, and conversion of boilers to natural gas or hydrogen fuel. Also included is information you'll need to know regarding how to avoid contamination and corrosion, and other important operational guidelines that will improve boiler performance.
Course Duration: 2 Hour(s)
Boilers: Basic Principles and Types
Industrial plants rely on steam for heating and other processes, and boilers are commonly used to provide this steam. This unit examines the basic principles of boiler operation and the basic concepts of heat transfer. The major types of boilers used in industrial facilities are also described.
Course Duration: 1 Hour(s)
Boilers: Combustion, Water, and Steam
This course is designed to familiarize participants with some of the equipment and flow paths associated with combustion and steam production in a boiler. After completing this course, participants should be able to describe the parts and operation of typical gas burners, oil burners, and stokers. They should also be able to explain how air flow is produced in a boiler, why the proper fuel-to-air ratio must be maintained, and how air heaters improve the efficiency of boiler operation. Finally, participants should be able to explain how water circulation occurs in a boiler and describe the use of economizers and moisture separators.Course Duration: 2 Hour(s)
Efficient Boiler Operation
This course explains some of the fundamental aspects of turbine efficiency. After completing this course, participants should be able to identify energy flows that enter and exit a typical turbine generator set, and explain how to determine the efficiency of a turbine.Course Duration: 1 Hour(s)
Efficient Operation of Oil and Gas Fired Boilers
This course describes how changes in parameters can affect boiler efficiency and heat rate. After completing this course, participants should be able to explain how changes in key boiler parameters can affect boiler efficiency and heat rate, how some of the possible causes of those changes can be identified, and how problems that can cause parameters to change can be recognized during a boiler walkdown.Course Duration: 1 Hour(s)
Feedwater Heater Efficiency
This course is designed to teach participants how to recognize whether feedwater heaters are operating properly. After completing this course, participants should understand how a feedwater heater works and the role it plays in a generating unit. They should also know how to monitor the operation of a feedwater heater to maintain maximum efficiency and how to recognize and identify feedwater heater problems.Course Duration: 1 Hour(s)
Power Plant Boilers: Abnormal Conditions and Emergencies
This course is designed to familiarize participants with common boiler problems and some of the basic causes of boiler explosions. After completing this course, participants should be able to describe basic procedures for dealing with the loss of certain boiler auxiliaries, leaks, overpressure conditions, and equipment fires. They should also be able to describe some basic causes of boiler explosions and explain what operators can do to help prevent boiler explosions.Course Duration: 2 Hour(s)
Power Plant Boilers: Combustion and Operation
This course is designed to familiarize participants with the basic principles associated with combustion in a boiler and the flow of air and combustion gases during boiler operation. After completing this course, participants should be able to identify the elements needed for combustion in a boiler, explain how fuel is delivered to the burners, and describe the parts and operation of various types of burners. They should also be able to describe the air and gas flow path through a boiler and describe methods used to remove particulates and harmful gases from combustion gases. In addition, participants should be able to explain when and why vents, drains, blowdown valves, and soot blowers are used.Course Duration: 2 Hour(s)
Power Plant Boilers: Normal Operations
This course is designed to familiarize participants with the tasks involved in operating boilers under normal conditions. After completing this course, participants should be able to explain what steady state conditions for a boiler are and describe typical operator concerns associated with the energy losses that occur during operation of a boiler under steady state conditions. They should also be able to describe operator responsibilities for monitoring and controlling the boiler's steam/water system, air/gas system, steam temperature, and ash removal systems.
Course Duration: 2 Hour(s)
Power Plant Boilers: Startup and Shutdown
This course is designed to familiarize participants with basic techniques for starting up and shutting down drum-type boilers and once-through boilers. After completing this course, participants should be able to describe basic procedures for performing a cold startup of a drum-type boiler, lighting off the furnace, warming up the boiler, and establishing the boiler flame. They should also be able to describe basic procedures for shutting down a typical drum-type boiler. In addition, participants should be able to compare and contrast the startup and shutdown of a drum-type boiler with the startup and shutdown of a once-through boiler.
Course Duration: 2 Hour(s)
Power Plant Boilers: Water and Steam
This course is designed to familiarize participants with the basic principles associated with the flow of water and steam in various types of boilers. After completing this course, participants should be able to describe the flow path of water through a typical drum-type boiler, explain the differences between natural circulation and controlled circulation, and describe the functions and components of a typical boiler drum. They should also be able to describe the flow path of steam from the boiler to the condenser in a typical generating unit and explain the function of each component in the flow path. In addition, participants should be able to explain why some boilers operate above the critical point, describe the flow path of water in a once-through supercritical boiler, and explain how steam pressure is maintained in a drum-type boiler and in a once-through boiler.
Course Duration: 2 Hour(s)