Boiler Operation & Maintenance

Course details

This course aims to enable the participants to develop a sound knowledge in the water piping system and equipment used for air-conditioning and mechanical refrigeration system.

• Identify the system components of closed and open systems
• Determine the pressure drop in piping
• Determine the pipe size
• Size an expansion tank
• Select control valves for systems
• Design a chilled water system
• Design a condenser cooling water system
• Size and select the chillers and cooling towers
• Understand the water treatment system
• Select the pump to match the system
• Describe cool thermal storage system
• Estimate chiller size and storage tank for thermal storage system
• Basic principles – pressure drop equations, valve and fitting losses, flow rate limitations
• piping system design- expansion of pipe, pipe sizing
• Types of control, selection of control
• Pump and system- characteristic of centrifugal pumps, Net Positive Suction Head of pump
• Pump laws
• Multiple pump arrangement
• Chiller selection
• Work principles of cooling tower and selection of cooling tower
• Water treatment system
• Types of compressors for cool thermal storage systems
• Description and sizing of chillers and tanks for cool thermal storage

Who should attend:
Technicians, Supervisors, Technical officers, Engineers, facilities managers, cleanroom project engineers