PIPE 2657 - Advanced Boiler Systems

2 Credits

Review of Hydronics heating and cooling systems. Introduction to boiler types, such as fire tube, water tube, condensing, and no condensing boilers. Students will understand hot water, low pressure steam, and high pressure steam boilers. Learning how to size pipe to attain delivery of desired BTU’s to equipment. Discussion and understanding of the different burner fuel systems, as in natural gas, oil, propane, and electric. Students will understand burner ignition, and flame safety. Thorough coverage of pumps for HVAC systems, covering different types, i.e. positive displacement, and non positive displacement, pump installation, alignment, and repair. Pumping system calculations on pumping head & GPMs and pump curve analysis. 2C/0/2/0