How to keep your boiler working for you for long years
Posted on: October 21, 2014
For people who work in companies where big boilers are installed such as sugar factories, chemical manufacturing plants, paper and pulp industry, textile mills, etc., they must know how important a boiler is for an industry. Industries rely to a great extent on the working of boilers. The steam and temperature created by the boiler are used in many primary operations carried out in many industries.
When a boiler is installed in a company premises, the company management expects it to work for long time continuously so that it could yield maximum profits. In order to keep a boiler working continuously 24×7, you must take good care of it. Without proper care and maintenance, it cannot survive long and will start creating problem. Additionally, without proper care, it can also lead to serious accidents leading to loos of time, money and even lives.
Operation of boiler
Operating a boiler is not an easy task and it takes a high level of knowledge and experience to operate a boiler at its maximum efficiency without causing damage to the equipment. When you hire a boiler operator, you need to ensure that he has appropriate qualification regarding boiler operation. He also must have a valid license to operate on boiler. In addition with proper qualification, proper experience is also necessary so that he is aware of various situations that he has to face during operation of boiler. A well-experienced operator knows how to keep a boiler working under safe working limits, which is very important as crossing the safe limits can lead to fatal and serious accidents.
Maintenance
Just hiring a well-qualified and well-experienced boiler operator is not enough to keep your boiler working for a long time. You also need to do regular and frequent maintenance of your boiler. Maintenance includes tube cleaning, inspection of boiler and repair and replacement of defected components of the boiler.
Tube cleaning is done for removal of scale, sludge and dirt from the tubes, which are introduced to the tubes along with water that is fed to the boiler. This accumulation of sludge can lead to poor heat transfer and more fuel consumption leading to economic loss. For some smaller boilers, chemicals and cleaning agents are used and cleaning of tubes is done manually, but for bigger boilers, manual cleaning is not feasible hence tube cleaning system are used. Tube cleaning in larger boilers is done using various tube cleaning systems that are electric, hydraulic and pneumatic tube cleaners, which perform cleaning very efficiently and in very less time.
After cleaning of tubes, complete inspection of boiler is done to find any defective, damaged or malfunctioning component in the boiler. If any defect is found in any of the components of the boiler, it is replaced with an immediate effect. Operating a boiler with defective components can be very dangerous and causes serious accidents.
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