What Will I Learn?

SYLLABUS FOR BOE EXAMINATION.

Paper-I
( a )	Calculation of loads, areas, volumes, quantities and weights
( b )	Description of the principal types of steam boilers used on land and to state the purpose and reason for which different types of boilers are employed; and from the data and formulae supplied, calculate the safe working pressure for any part of a boiler in accordance with the Indian Boiler Regulations;
( c )	Calculation of the direct stress, the torsional stress and the bending stress in round bars and shafts and the bending stress in rectangular bars and levers with given load;
( d )	Working and management of steam boilers, super heaters and economizers
( e )	Use and purpose of various valves, cocks, mountings, fitting and other safety devices.
( f )	Function of feed pumps, feed injectors, feed regulators, feed water filters and softners, feed heaters, air heaters, calorifiers, steam accumulators, forced draught, induced draught, induced draught and automatic draught control devices;
( g )	Fact relating to combustion, heat and steam and calculate consumption of coal and water and quality of steam that may be generated from given heating surface under the various systems of draught, in any land boiler and also calculate overall efficiency of boiler plant
( h )	Explanation of jet and surface condensation, reheating and the working of steam expansion

Paper-II
( i )	Explanation of general methods employed in laying foundation for boilers and chimneys and the suitable area and height of chimneys to promote efficient combustion.
( j )	Explanation of significance of principle appliances in use for prevention of smoke and the principle on which they work and give description of the principle mechanical stokers, pulverizes, gas oil and pulverized fuel system in use
( k )	The need of periodical cleaning, the method used for prevention of scale or other deposits on heating surface and the necessity for maintaining a certain PH value in feed water.
( l )	Detection of defects in boilers and state the means and methods of recitifying them
( m )	Understands the precautions to be taken for starting a boiler and economizer out of commission while the boiler is on steam
( n )	Understands the procedure to be adopted in putting an economizer out of commission while the boiler is on steam
( o )	Explanation of the methods adopted for the achievement of fuel economy and the use of various instruments in a Boiler House
( p )	Materials used in Boiler components and piping

Paper-III
( q)	Explanation of general methods employed in laying foundation for boilers and chimneys and the suitable area and height of chimneys to promote efficient combustion.

 

Prior Knowledge

Has served for not less than two years in case of degree holders and for five years in case of diploma holders in the operation or maintenance of a boiler of not less than one thousand square meters heating surface or a Battery of boilers of not less than one thousand square meters heating surface in aggregate out of which at least one boiler of not less than five hundred square meters heating surface