Are you up to date on the selection criteria of instruments and control systems for boiler plants? How can you select the best fuel efficiency instruments and controls to fulfill power generation requirements? Our online course presented by specialist J. Paul Guyer, P.E. dives into combustion, boiler, and non-boiler controls and how to select fuel efficiency instruments and control systems for boiler plants and atmospheric omissions. While control system manufacturers used to produce pneumatic controls for the heating and/or electric power generation of a steam plant, most manufacturers have discontinued their production. As a result, it's typically not recommended they be specified for new installations. In fact, replacement parts and qualified service for pneumatic controls systems are now difficult to procure. So what are the most current instruments and control systems for boiler plants...and why? Microprocessor-based control systems can provide sequential logic control and modulating control in one control device. This capability makes boiler control systems, which use both sequential logic and modulating control, more flexible, reliable, and cost-effective. Furthermore, the processing units in microprocessor-based control systems can be utilized as single loop controllers. Alternatively, more powerful processing units can be applied to individual control subsystems, such as combustion control of ash handling control. Expand your skills and knowledge of how to choose instruments and control systems for boiler plants!

Course Content

1. GENERAL 2. COMBUSTION CONTROLS 3. BOILER CONTROLS 4. NONBOILER CONTROLS 5. CONTROL PANELS 6. FIELD INSTRUMENTATION

Learning Objectives

At the successful conclusion of this course, you’ll be able to identify and discuss:

• Pneumatic controls for boiler plants
• Advantages and disadvantages of microprocessor controls
• Importance of control system safeguards
• Combustion control systems and instruments
• How positioning systems are employed
• How to use metering control systems to regulate combustion in boiler plants
• How to use fuel efficiency controls
• Instruments and control systems for boiler plants and atmospheric omissions