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Steam Boilers
Raising steam safely: boiler types, mountings, safety valves, gauges, combustion and draft — with the figures examiners expect.
Steam Boilers
Steam Boilers Topics
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Steam Boilers — Heat, Circulation, Types & EGB Fire
How flame becomes steam through three heat paths, why circulation decides survival, which boiler fits which duty — and why wet soot burns at 200 °C.
02
Boiler Water, Combustion, Draft & Economiser Leaks
How level is proved, how oil becomes a suspended flame, how fans divide the draught — and which way a leak pushes.
03
Boiler Water Chemistry — 7 Tests, Treatment & Pressure Proof
Seven titrations decide whether the drum lives or dies — and two pressure proofs decide whether the surveyor signs.