Power GenerationBoiler Efficiency 2: Windboxes, Burners, and the Furnace

Boiler Efficiency 2: Windboxes, Burners, and the Furnace

SKU: HR00700CEN
Duration: 1.00 Hr

This course is designed to explain how the windbox, the burners, and the furnace affect boiler efficiency and heat rate. After completing this course, participants should be able to explain how the windbox, the burners, and the furnace operate together to sustain combustion, and how problems with these components can be recognized and corrected.
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Course Details

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Describe how the windbox, the secondary air dampers, the burners, and the furnace operate together to sustain combustion.
  • Explain why the flow of fuel and air through the system is balanced as closely as possible.
  • State the function of the windbox.
  • Describe problems commonly associated with the windbox.
  • Describe how secondary air flow can be balanced by adjusting the secondary air dampers.
  • Describe the effects of adjusting burner tilts.
  • Describe how to recognize burner problems.
  • Describe furnace draft.
  • Describe problems commonly associated with furnaces.

    • Specs

    Course Level Intermediate
    Languages English
    Compatibility Audio, Video, MobileReady

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