Each year more and more local and state municipalities require maintenance professionals to be licensed to operate boilers and their accessories. Skilled trades courses do a decent job providing an introduction to the field of boiler operations but many are deficient in preparing students or readers on what is essential to passing an boiler operator examination. This book has boiled down the crucial and necessary parts in layman terms so the reader can focus on what's most important; integrating the knowledge in a manner that will allow them to recall that information either in a written or oral form when needed. There is not a book on the market like this and it will definitely help the reader that applies themselves to adopting its principles.
Genre: EDUCATION / VocationalThis book was released in August of 2019 and has remained in the Top 100 for Vocational and Technical Training categories.
What is a Boiler Plant? Ans. A plant consisting of one or more boilers in battery or connected to a common header or steam outlet used to generate steam for heating, process or mechanical work in a prime mover.
What is a heating plant?
Ans. A boiler plant consisting of one or more boilers in bat- tery connected to a common header or steam outlet used to generate steam for heating conditioned spaces. Depend- ing on the distances the steam must travel to the condition space will determine the pressure the boiler must generate. The steam once it leaves the boiler is then directed and handled by other auxiliaries and accessories before being discharged through heat transfer surfaces which give off the heat energy in the steam to the conditioned space before re- turning to condensate and returning to the boiler via conden- sate return pumps, condensate tank and boiler feed pumps.
The heat energy produced by a boiler in a heating plant is often recycled and reused in other processes to reduce fuel consumption in the boiler and thus reduce overall costs to operate and maintain the boiler. The steam leaving the boiler may also be reduced through Pressure Reducing Stations or Pressure Reducing Valves (PRVs) before the steam enters heat exchanging equipment. If the heat exchanging equipment (radiators or coils) are relatively in close proximi- ty to the boiler a PRV is not required as the steam pressure entering the coil is sufficient to heat the space and not do damage to the coil as it gives off its heat energy and return to condensate.
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