Thermal Academy
Where every kcal counts
Academy › Faculty B
The Boiler House
Boilers, fuels, feedwater, blowdown, controls and IBR — where steam is made and where most money is won or lost.
- B1200°9 minBoiler types in IndiaShell, water-tube and coil boilers — what runs where, and why.
- B2200°9 minFuels and the price of a kilo of steamGCV, the Indian fuel basket, and the ₹-per-1000-kcal method.
- B3200°8 minF&A rating decodedWhat “from and at 100 °C” really promises — and what your boiler actually evaporates.
- B4200°9 minBoiler efficiency and the lossesThe indirect method: stack, blowdown, radiation — and what excess air costs.
- B5200°10 minFeedwater and deaerationHot feed economics and how deaerators remove the gases that corrode boilers.
- B6200°10 minBlowdown and TDS controlWhy boilers must bleed, how much, and how to recover the heat.
- B7200°8 minBoiler water chemistry primerHardness, softening, dosing and carryover — enough chemistry to run a boiler well.
- B8200°9 minBoiler controls and safetyLevel, pressure and combustion controls, mountings and interlocks.
- B9200°9 minSteam accumulatorsSmoothing batch demand — when a pressure vessel of hot water pays for itself.
- B10200°8 minIBR without tearsWhat counts as an IBR steam pipe, what registration involves — the working engineer's view.
- B11200°11 minCombustion arithmeticHow much air a kilogram of fuel is owed, why every industrial fuel wants ~1.3-1.5 kg of air per 1,000 kcal, and the 190-tonne daily flow that never crosses the weighbridge.
Free, vendor-neutral fundamentals from working practice. Teaching values — verify with certified data for design.