COURSE OVERVIEW:

This course provides participants with a practical understanding of boiler feed water treatment and its impact on boiler, evaporator, and desalination plant performance. It explains the outline and basic principles of desalination plants and boilers, the types of failures and problems commonly encountered, and the impurities present in raw and make up water. Participants will learn why water treatment is essential, the consequences of inadequate treatment, and how to produce high quality water suitable for use in high- and low-pressure boilers. Emphasis is placed on corrosion and fouling mechanisms, condensate return line protection, and the correct application of chemical treatment methods.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

After completion of this course, the participants will be able to:

1. Define the effect of fouling and scaling on the performance and efficiency of boilers, evaporators, and desalination plant units.
2. Identify the main impurities present in raw, make up, and condensate water and explain why water treatment is required.
3. Describe the consequences of inadequate or incorrect water treatment on boiler reliability, safety, and operating costs.
4. Explain the basic design and operating principles of desalination plants, boilers, distillers, and evaporators.
5. Distinguish between high pressure and low-pressure boilers and describe how water quality requirements differ between them.
6. Recognize the types of failures commonly found in boilers and evaporators and relate them to underlying water chemistry and operating conditions.
7. Describe the causes and effects of boilers and condensate return line corrosion, including oxygen, carbon dioxide, acidic, and caustic mechanisms.
8. Explain the principles and application of key boiler water treatment methods, including sulphite and other oxygen scavengers, hydrazine, and amine-based treatments.
9. Outline practical approaches to monitoring, sampling, and analyzing boiler feed water and condensate to support proactive treatment and troubleshooting.
10. Apply the knowledge gained to improve plant performance, reduce unplanned outages, and support safe, reliable boiler operation.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

-Process Engineers

-Laboratory Staff and Technicians

-Operations Engineers and Supervisors involved with boilers and desalination plants

-Utilities and Steam Plant Personnel

-Maintenance and Reliability Engineers supporting boiler systems

TRAINING COURSE METHODOLOGY:

A highly interactive combination of lectures and discussion sessions, as well as case studies, will be managed to maximize the amount and quality of information, knowledge, and experience transfer. The course will be intensive but practical and highly interactive. The sessions will start by raising the most relevant questions and motivating everybody to find the right answers. The attendants will also be encouraged to raise more of their questions and to share in developing the right answers using their analysis and experience. There will also be some indoor experiential activities to enhance learning. Course material through PowerPoint equipped with necessary animation, learning videos, and general discussions will be provided.

The course participants shall be evaluated before, during, and at the end of the course.

COURSE CERTIFICATE:

National Consultant Centre for Training LLC (NCC) will issue an Attendance Certificate to all participants completing a minimum of 80% of the total attendance time requirement.