Are there any safety issues with combustion equipment?
Most facilities do not have personnel properly trained in combustion equipment maintenance, start-up and shut-down procedures, or equipment operations. Most sites also do not follow proper fuel train interlock and safety testing guidelines even though they are mandated by law.
How does a self-audit combustion system work?
These “self-audit” combustion system programs usually include an analysis for code compliance but then go further into installation deficiencies, interlock testing, screening for maintenance practices that can be impacting safety, and assessing technological advances that can improve safety. 4. GRANDFATHERING OLD EQUIPMENT
Why is it important to control the process of combustion?
Burning fuel can be useful to mankind as long as it is done as a controlled process. Control means that combustion takes place where we want it, when we want it, and at the rate we want it. Fuel trains are the complicated-looking series of valves, piping, wires, and switches that provide this control.
How does a fuel train keep gas out of the combustion chamber?
Fuel trains regulate the amount and the pressure of gas to burners. They also keep gas out of the combustion chamber whenever equipment is shut off. This is accomplished with a series of regulators, flow control valves, and special shutoff valves. The special automatic shutoff valves are designed for low leakage and are spring loaded to close.
Most facilities do not have personnel properly trained in combustion equipment maintenance, start-up and shut-down procedures, or equipment operations. Most sites also do not follow proper fuel train interlock and safety testing guidelines even though they are mandated by law.
These “self-audit” combustion system programs usually include an analysis for code compliance but then go further into installation deficiencies, interlock testing, screening for maintenance practices that can be impacting safety, and assessing technological advances that can improve safety. 4. GRANDFATHERING OLD EQUIPMENT
Burning fuel can be useful to mankind as long as it is done as a controlled process. Control means that combustion takes place where we want it, when we want it, and at the rate we want it. Fuel trains are the complicated-looking series of valves, piping, wires, and switches that provide this control.
Fuel trains regulate the amount and the pressure of gas to burners. They also keep gas out of the combustion chamber whenever equipment is shut off. This is accomplished with a series of regulators, flow control valves, and special shutoff valves. The special automatic shutoff valves are designed for low leakage and are spring loaded to close.
