• Reducing energy costs of boilers

• Operating procedures for effective cost reductions

• Measure and manage

• Instrumentation and digital data systems for better energy management

• Generating low cost electrical power using turbo-generators

• Combustion system check list

• Steam systems check list

• Process heating system check list

• The penalties of thermal mass

• Why not use an accumulator to handle demand surges instead of another boiler

• Fuel selection, different fuels have different efficiencies and cost factors

• The key to large energy loses, controlling air fuel ratios

• Instruments needed for plant analysis

• Oxygen trim systems

• Reducing excess air

• Control aystem improvements

• Questions and review

MODULE 2:  2 hours

• Fuel loss prevention approaching an ideal scene

• Draft control

• Detecting and curing high exhaust temperatures

• Economizers and waste heat recovery

• Combined heat and power

• Emulsified fuel

• Fuel additives to solve specific problems

• New discoveries produce good results

• Reducing CO2 in the combustion phase

• Questions and review

MODULE 3:  2 hours

• Burners and controls

• Air preheaters recover efficiency

• Tabulators improve heat transfer

• Blowdown heat recovery strategies

• Automatic blowdown control

• Vent condensers

• Water treatment and cycles of concentration, how they effect costs and efficiency

• Recovering latent heat from boiler exhaust gas

• Waste heat recovery from process applications

• Submerged combustion improves efficiency

• Questions and review




MODULE 4:  2 hours

• Use of satellite boilers to cure large losses in big old steam distribution systems

• Advantages and disadvantages of high temperature hot water systems

• Recovering energy from steam systems

• Steam trap losses and loss prevention

• Insulation performance

• The advantages and disadvantages of reducing steam pressure and the things that could cause problems when it's done

• Low pressure steam recompression

• Pressure reducing valves

• Utilizing flash steam

• Temperature setback

• Measuring steam system loads

• Temperature setback

• A look at reducing electrical consumption, fan and pump laws

• Pump Information

• Ceramic and soft furnace insulation vs. firebrick

• Intermittent ignition devices

• Advantages of and applications for infra red heaters

• Thermal plant survey lists

• Questions and review