Know the components of your boiler for better care

If you have a boiler installed in your company, you must have ample knowledge about your equipment so that you could take good care of your equipment. A boiler is a huge machine that is used for creating very high degree of pressure and heat, which are used by various industries for different operations and processes, such as heating, cleaning, pressurising moving, etc. major industries that use boilers extensively include textile mills, sugar factories, alcohol breweries and distilleries, paper mills, etc.

In order to take care of your boiler, you must have ample knowledge about it working and also about its various components. Here is some information about different components that are installed in a boiler.

Boiler feed pump

Water level in a boiler is very important factor, and it is important to keep the water levels of a boiler at optimum for complete safety of the boiler. The boiler feed pumps provide water to the boiler tubes and shell so that they could work efficiently. If your boiler feed pumps get damaged or stops working, then you might have some serious problem regarding boiler, hence you must have a spare boiler feed pump so that it could serve in case of emergency. 

Boiler tubes

Boiler tubes are the part of boiler that carries either the water or the heat; hence it is necessary to keep these tubes clean and free from any clogging. The tubes of a boiler get clogged from various dirt and sludge that are introduced to them through feed water or from the furnace. The boiler tubes must be cleaned regularly with boiler tube cleaners to ensure maximum efficiency as clogged tubes lead to lower efficiency and more fuel consumption and eventually economic loss. 

Pressure gauge

Pressure gauge of a boiler is used for determining the pressure developed by a boiler. The level of pressure should not exceed the prescribed level or it can be very dangerous for the boiler and for those working near it, hence a pressure gauge is very important for a boiler. 

 Water level indicator

A water level indicator tells about the level of water in the boiler, and it is very important to take care of the indictor and read it well so that an optimum level of water could be maintained as ignoring the water level can cause development of cracks in boiler shell or tubes, which is very dangerous for the equipment. 

Exhaust fan

The exhaust fan of a boiler is responsible for providing air to the furnace as well as sucks the smoke out of the furnace and sends it to the chimney. If the boiler exhaust fan is not working properly, your boiler cannot work at all. For this reason, you must check your boiler exhaust fan regularly for any type of defects or problem and solve it immediately for optimum work.