This training is tailored to meet the needs of all engine room personnel. Our training focuses on systems rather than individual equipment.

Objective: To deliver up-to-date, realistic training that provides knowledge, confidence, and competence for safe and cost-effective operation of the auxiliary boiler system.

Activities include, but are not limited to:

  • Tracing the various systems and making a line sketch of each system

  • Demonstrate the correct procedures for starting up and shutting down the boiler system

  • Conduct inspection on the various equipment in the system, explain why/how the equipment are in such a condition

  • Conduct testing of the various boiler mounted safety devices

After successfully completing this training, students will have the necessary competency to:

  • Understand the various systems and how each piece of equipment in the system has an impact on other equipment in the system

  • Understand how operation are planned and carried out in accordance with established rules and procedures to ensure safety of operation

  • Deviations from the norm are promptly identified and rectified

Syllabus:

1. General Principle
2. Boiler Construction
3. Boiler System

  • Feed water

  • Fuel

  • Steam

4. Boiler Mountings
5. Operation of Boiler System

  • Starting up boiler system

  • Shutting down boiler system

  • Change over fuels, H.F.O. to D.O.

6. Daily Maintenance and Checks

  • Blowing down the boiler

  • Blowing down the gauge glass

  • Soot blowing

  • Chemical test

  • Fault finding

7. Burners

  • Combustion of fuel in boilers

  • Operation

  • Maintenance

8. Exhaust Gas Boilers / Exhaust Gas Economiser

  • Operation

  • Maintenance

9. Boiler Maintenance, Inspection, And Repairs

  • Boiler manhole door

  • Setting safety valves

  • Boiler controls and alarms

10. Uptake Fires
11. Feed Water Treatment

Methodology: A practical hands-on-training is used to maximum possible advantage. This training is interwoven with the use of training videos, lectures, and discussion

Certificates: Issued to candidates who successfully pass the final evaluation. 

Duration of the course:   Five (5) days

Location: Manila