Package Boiler Inspection

Overview

OVERVIEW

This is a comprehensive independent training course for engineer surveyors and inspectors who inspect industrial package (shell) boilers and associated steam systems.

Why is it required?

The UK is one of the few mature industrial countries with no independent training course for assessing and examining industrial boiler inspectors. Inspectors with specific boiler knowledge and skills are in short supply, and the quality is variable.

An improvement in employer-led assessments

This programme aims to provide boiler inspectors with demonstrable training and certification independent of their current employer.

Technical points about this WILKINSON COUTTS course

• Fully aligned with the statutory requirements of the PSSRs and HSE guidelines and published SAFeD documents

• Based on the best content of published codes and reference documents for in-service boiler inspection from several countries and sources, rather than restricting this to a single published source

• Production of enhanced inspection reports providing comprehensive technical detail. A method of ‘quality score assessment’ is applied to previous and current boiler inspection reports.

• An inspector training and certificate programme which is not employer-specific and therefore has external recognition.

COURSE SCOPE

Industrial and commercial steam and hot water boilers to the same technical scope as HSE BG01 i.e.

• MAWP 0.5-32 bar gauge and temperature 110°C to 400°C.

It is also relevant to small water tube boilers and fired heaters, and related steam plants in the boiler feed and steam distribution circuit, such as deaerators and feed heaters, dosing equipment, drain coolers and sampling components, pressure relief valves, and steam pipework.

MODULE CONTENT

It covers those items of direct relevance to a boiler inspector acting as a competent person (CP) under the PSSRs. i.e. relating to the pressure integrity of the boiler circuit and its attendant risks of danger due to the release of stored energy and scalding by steam. Subjects include:

• Related qualifications
• Background and history of boiler inspection
• Principles of boiler operation
• Boiler types
• Boiler design principles
• Materials of construction
• Boiler manufacturing codes
• Fabrication practices and defects
• Boiler operation regimes
• Water chemistry
• Boiler cleaning practices
• Corrosion/damage mechanisms
• Fireside DMs
• Boiler failure modes
• Written scheme of examination: technical
• Safety: Confined space entry
• Boiler inspection, NDE and testing
• Evaluation of inspection results
• Repairs
• Steam circuit components and pipework
• Pressure relief valves
• Statutory requirements: PSSRs
• Enhanced reporting

COURSE ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

• Previous inspection experience in the mechanical/pressure engineering field is required for entry to the course.