What a Boiler Inspector Checks During Internal Examination
Follow a systematic route through history, cleaning, visual inspection, measurements, NDT and reporting.
Read complete lesson →Follow a systematic route through history, cleaning, visual inspection, measurements, NDT and reporting.
Read complete lesson →Build plant understanding through flow paths, drawings, calculations and failure logic.
Read complete lesson →Relate thermal gradients to tube-plate, drum, header, furnace and refractory stress.
Read complete lesson →Recover flue-gas heat without crossing unsafe acid-dew-point limits.
Read complete lesson →Explain why indicated level changes during rapid steam-load changes.
Read complete lesson →Understand bottom and continuous blowdown, TDS control, heat loss and recovery.
Read complete lesson →Connect deposits, overheating, corrosion, erosion, fatigue and flow problems with physical evidence.
Read complete lesson →Separate legally essential safety fittings from efficiency and performance equipment.
Read complete lesson →Trace feedwater, downcomers, headers, generating tubes, risers, drum separation and superheat.
Read complete lesson →Understand how the furnace, reversal chamber and smoke tubes form a multi-pass gas path and why water inventory affects response and safety.
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