Grade 1 - Topic 2
- Fuel saving guidelines to minimise Energy losses on a typical process steam plant installation
- Managing your Carbon Footprint and helping to reduce your carbon emissions
Aims & Objectives
This is a one day training programme consisting of two sessions of three (3) hours duration, provided for personnel working within the process steam environment. A professional certificate of attendance is provided for these lectures.
Aims
The aim of this training is to encourage and make aware of the most common examples of Steam and Energy losses that can be observed and reported when working around or surveying a general steam process plant
General action plan that can be achieved towards reducing fuel losses in the boiler house and steam distribution and condensate return systems.
Objectives
By the end of this three (3) hour lecture, the learner will be able to appreciate:
- the significance of steam leaks around the process plant and estimate what fuel losses this represents in the course of the plant running generally a 168 hour week
- the importance of reporting misuse of by-passes being left open around steam traps and the effects of fuel wastage
- the importance of reporting on areas of steam plant where condensate is run to waste and understand the reasons for effective return of condensate to the boiler house feed tank:
- Saving treatment/chemicals
- Saving fuel
- Reducing raw water make-up
- the importance of using good quality lagging of steam distribution systems including control valves and associated flanges
- the importance of reporting on areas where redundant steam pipework is still installed
- the importance of regularly checking the operation/performance of steam traps, and reporting on those found to be blowing steam and wasting fuel
- the significance of checking out process plant and if automatic controllers are operating
- the importance of reporting on areas around the steam distribution system where water logging occurs and the risks of water hammer
- etc
It should be noted that, in the interests of maintaining safety standards
and engineering regulations, these Aims and Objectives are continually under review.
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