Boiler Safety Articles

The use of electricity is a vital ingredient of many of the production and support operations performed on-site.  In today’s modern-day environment, we are literally surrounded by electricity.  It is important that we protect ourselves from its potential hazards, as electricity is an unseen danger that cannot easily be detected …

It is important that reporting accidents and near-misses are important for several reasons. It allows for proper medical treatment to be given to those who are injured, helps identify hazards that need to be addressed to prevent future accidents, and can also assist in the investigation of the incident to …

A burner management system (BMS) is a control system that is used to monitor and regulate the operation of burners in industrial processes such as Boilers, power plants, chemical plants, and oil refineries. The BMS is responsible for ensuring that the burners are operating safely and efficiently, and it can …

Almost all fires are small in their incipient stage and can be put out quickly in the hands of a trained person, portable fire extinguishers are great tools to protect people and property from fire during the early stages if the proper firefighting equipment is available. When using an extinguisher …

Large Boilers in power plants are fitted with soot blowers, which are tools to keep the outside surface of the tubes clean and free from material or ash that would have a detrimental effect on the heat transfer surface. The blowing fluid is generally steam and the frequency of operation …

Boiler preservation is required when boiler is out of service or in shutdown condition for a long period to protect boilers internal surface from corrosion and atmospheric oxygen. There are two types of boiler preservation methods each of them is used in specific conditions. Wet preservation of boiler Dry preservation …

Pressure vessels and Boiler Inspection are done to determine the amount of maintenance required to have equipment operate properly until the next turnaround. A comprehensive equipment history must be maintained that includes conditions found during inspection and testing, maintenance work done, changes made, and date of each. ASME Code Standards …

Many hazards are associated with welding and cutting safety, but as in any other operations they can be controlled by appropriate preventive measures. Unless these measures are taken, the hazardous situations can easily give rise to personnel injury and/or material damage. Welding and cutting hazard examples are:- Electric shock Fumes …

Boiler engineers can increase boiler efficiency up to 10% without even spending any penny or up to 15% with spending some money. Take these steps on your steam boiler and you can save a lot of energy, fuel, and money.  25 ways to increase boiler efficiency Control excess air in …

Pressure Safety valve or PSV Valve is the most important valve on a boiler used to relief excess pressure to atmosphere let’s see how psv valve is important, Let’s discuss about Pressure safety valve theory installation rules and PSV valve mechanism, Sv setting, testing and the types. Purpose and safety …

What is a scaffold? Scaffolds are widely used on site to get access to heights and areas that would be otherwise hard to get to. Scaffolds should provide use with safe platform to work from.  Unsafe scaffolding has the potential to result in death or serious injury to those working …

What is a pressuretrol? The pressuretrol is an important boiler control mounting as how pressuretrol works? is the today question asked by someone in group, simple answer is that the pressuretrol in a boiler works as pressure control switch that turns the boiler on and off at adjusted pressure. The …