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Written for the boiler operator who has knowledge and experience, but would like to learn more in order to optimize his performance, this text is also clearly-presented enough to be an indispensable guide for those beginning their careers, as well as being suitable for managers and superintendents interested in reducing a facility's operating expense. Based on the author's forty years of experience in boiler plant operation, design, construction, start-up, retrofit and maintenance, it contains absolutely key recommendations to operators and managers of plants large and small.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Chapter 1 Operating Wisely (p. 1)
• Why wisely? (p. 1)
• Prioritizing (p. 1)
• Safety (p. 5)
• Measurements (p. 7)
• Flow (p. 13)
• What happens naturally (p. 14)
• Water, steam and energy (p. 15)
• Combustion (p. 18)
• The central boiler plant (p. 25)
• Electricity (p. 26)
• Documentation (p. 31)
• Standard Operating Procedures (p. 33)
• Disaster Plans (p. 36)
• Logs (p. 37)
• Chapter 2 Operations (p. 45)
• Operating Modes (p. 45)
• Valve manipulation (p. 45)
• New startup (p. 49)
• Dead plant startup (p. 62)
• Normal boiler startup (p. 63)
• Emergency boiler startup (p. 65)
• Normal operation (p. 67)
• Idle equipment (p. 69)
• Superheating (p. 72)
• Switching fuels (p. 73)
• Standby operation (p. 75)
• Rotating (alternating) boilers (p. 76)
• Bottom blowoff (p. 77)
• Annual inspection (p. 78)
• Operating during maintenance and repairs (p. 80)
• Pressure testing (p. 81)
• Lay-up (p. 83)
• Tune-ups (p. 84)
• Auxiliary turbines (p. 88)
• Chapter 3 What the Wise Operator Knows (p. 93)
• Know your load (p. 93)
• Know your plant (p. 97)
• Matching equipment to the load (p. 98)
• Efficiency (p. 100)
• Performance monitoring (p. 105)
• Modernizing and upgrading (p. 106)
• Chapter 4 Special Systems (p. 109)
• Vacuum systems (p. 109)
• Hydronic heating (p. 110)
• High temperature hot water (HTHW) (p. 114)
• Organic fluid heaters and vaporizers (p. 116)
• Service water heating (p. 118)
• Waste heat service (p. 123)
• Chapter 5 Maintenance (p. 125)
• Maintenance (p. 125)
• Cleaning (p. 126)
• Instructions and specifications (p. 127)
• Lock-out, tag-out (p. 128)
• Lubrication (p. 129)
• Insulation (p. 132)
• Refractory (p. 134)
• Packing (p. 136)
• Controls and instrumentation (p. 138)
• Lighting and electrical equipment (p. 140)
• Miscellaneous (p. 143)
• Replacements (p. 144)
• Maintaining efficiency (p. 148)
• Records (p. 149)
• Chapter 6 Consumables (p. 151)
• Fuels (p. 151)
• Fuel gases (p. 152)
• Oils (p. 154)
• Coal (p. 159)
• Other solid fuels (p. 160)
• Water (p. 162)
• Treatment chemicals (p. 164)
• Miscellaneous (p. 165)
• Chapter 7 Water Treatment (p. 167)
• Water treatment (p. 167)
• Water testing (p. 168)
• Pretreatment (p. 172)
• Feedwater tanks and deaerators (p. 175)
• Blowdown (p. 179)
• Chemical treatment (p. 180)
• Preventing corrosion (p. 182)
• Preventing scale formation (p. 184)
• Chapter 8 Strength of Materials (p. 187)
• Strength of materials (p. 187)
• Stress (p. 187)
• Cylinders under internal pressure (p. 189)
• Cylinders under external pressure (p. 191)
• Piping Flexibility (p. 192)
• Chapter 9 Plants and Equipment (p. 195)
• Types of Boiler Plants (p. 195)
• Boilers (p. 196)
• Heat transfer in boilers (p. 197)
• Circulation (p. 199)
• Construction (p. 202)
• Boiler, cast iron and tubeless (p. 203)
• Firetube boilers (p. 203)
• Watertube boilers (p. 208)
• Trim (p. 219)
• Heat traps (p. 231)
• Burners (p. 234)
• Pumps (p. 249)
• Fans and blowers (p. 268)
• Cogeneration (p. 280)
• Chapter 10 Controls
• The basics (p. 289)
• Self contained controls (p. 305)
• Linearity (p. 307)
• Steam pressure maintenance (p. 308)
• Fluid temperature maintenance (p. 312)
• Fluid level maintenance (p. 314)
• Burner management (p. 318)
• Firing rate control (p. 321)
• Low fire start (p. 322)
• High-Low (p. 322)
• Burner cutout (p. 323)
• Jackshaft control (p. 323)
• Establishing linearity (p. 326)
• Startup control (p. 327)
• Parallel positioning (p. 328)
• Inferential metering (p. 330)
• Steam flow / air flow (p. 330)
• Full metering cross limited (p. 331)
• Dual fuel firing (p. 333)
• Choice fuel firing (p. 334)
• Oxygen trim (p. 334)
• Combustibles trim (p. 336)
• Draft control (p. 336)
• Feedwater pressure control (p. 338)
• Instrumentation (p. 340)
• Chapter 11 Why They Fail
• A little bit of history (p. 347)
• Low water (p. 347)
• Thermal Shock (p. 349)
• Corrosion and wear (p. 350)
• Operator error and poor maintenance (p. 350)
• Appendices
• Properties of water and steam (p. 353)
• Water pressure per foot head (p. 357)
• Nominal capacities of pipe (p. 358)
• Properties of pipe (p. 360)
• Secondary ratings of joints, flanges, valves, and fittings (p. 368)
• Pressure ratings for various pipe materials (p. 371)
• Square root curve (p. 372)
• Square root graph paper (p. 373)
• Viscosity conversions (p. 374)
• Thermal expansion of materials (p. 376)
• Value conversions (p. 377)
• Combustion calculation sheets (p. 378)
• Excess air/O[subscript 2] curve (p. 384)
• Properties of Dowtherm A (p. 385)
• Properties of Dowtherm J (p. 386)
• Chemical Tank Mixing Table (p. 387)
• Suggested mnemonic abbreviations for device identification (p. 389)
• Specific heats of common substances (p. 391)
• Design temperatures for selected cities (p. 392)
• Code Symbol Stamps (p. 395)
• Bibliography (p. 396)
• Index (p. 397)