Boiler Plant: Start-Up, Operations, Maintenance & Troubleshooting

Program Overview:
This is a practical maintenance engineering training course enabling delegates from technical and production disciplines to understand the rudiments of functional responsibilities that guarantees high level of Boiler Plant availability and reliability. This 5-Day Course teaches the practicality of Boiler Maintenance in a most suitable manner ready for implementation and monitoring.

For Whom:
This course is designed for all levels of Technical Personnel in the oil & Gas Industry as well as in Chemical and Process Industries but will greatly benefit Technical Personnel in charge of Production, Maintenance & Operations Engineers, Boiler Operators, Supervisors and Engineering Managers

Learning Objectives:
At the end of the program, participants will be able to:
⦁ explain the concept of boiler plants and their applications;
⦁ comprehend the derivation, calculation & application of reliability centered maintenance to boiler plants;
⦁ measure the effectiveness and efficiency of boiler plant maintenance functions;
⦁ evaluate investment opportunities in maintenance engineering vis-a-vis boiler plants;
⦁ ensure boiler plant availability and reliability based on production planning models;
⦁ evaluate cost-benefit analysis of boiler maintenance activities with respect to production high level timing goals; and
⦁ have a good overview of uncertainty and risk in the maintenance boiler plants.

Course Outline:
DAY 1 – Combustion Process and Heat Transfer Fundamentals
⦁ Basics of Thermodynamics
⦁ Heat Transfer and Combustion
⦁ Introduction to Steam Boilers
⦁ Latent Heat & Sensible Heat
⦁ Steam Properties
⦁ Purity of Steam
⦁ Mass and Energy Balance
⦁ Conduction, Convection, and Radiation
⦁ Combustion Fundamentals
⦁ Excess Air & Flue Gases Relation

DAY2 – Boiler Types & Operational Overview
⦁ Classifications of Steam Boilers
⦁ Boiler Functional Overview
⦁ Main Pressure Parts Components of Steam Boilers
⦁ Burners Types & Operational Controls
⦁ Low NOx Burners
⦁ Draft System of Steam Boilers
⦁ Water Treatment System

DAY 3 – Boiler Control Systems & Protection Mechanisms
⦁ Boiler Control and Protection
⦁ Safety Valves and Flame Safeguard
⦁ Oxygen Trim
⦁ Burner Management System
⦁ Continuous Blowdown Control
⦁ Drum Level Control

DAY 4 – Operation and Safety of Steam Boilers
⦁ Boiler & combustion systems hazards codes
⦁ Principles of Boiler Operation
⦁ Pre-startup procedures
⦁ Start-up & Shut down Procedures
⦁ Routine Operation during Boiler Service
⦁ Emergency Procedures

DAY 5 – Maintenance Management and Troubleshooting of Boilers
⦁ Problems of Steam Boilers
⦁ Preventive Maintenance Program
⦁ Destructive Test of Steam Boilers
⦁ NDT of Steam Boilers
⦁ Steam Boiler Repair
Approaches to Boiler Plant Maintenance
⦁ Systematic Approach to Boiler Plants Maintenance:
MTTR, MTBF, FTE, etc. analysis
⦁ Planning & Implementation of RCM for Boiler Plant
⦁ Cost-Benefit Analysis of RCMS in Boiler Plant

The Course Package: Include: Course material in soft copy, Tea break, Lunch, City tour, and certificate of attendance. A laptop with the soft copy of the course material loaded with a carrying bag will be presented to the participants at the end of the course.
Note: Payment is either U$D or the prevailing parallel market rate. We do not accept government official rate.

Training Methodology
⦁ Methodology: Lectures, discussions, exercises, case studies, audio-visual aids will be used to reinforce these teaching/learning methods

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