Standard Boiler Operators' Question And Answers (repost)

This book attempts to look inside boilers, beyond the pressure switches that cycle a boiler on and off, and into the many factors such as types of boilers, methods of construction, Code requirements, fuels, firing, programs of operation, safety controls, safety devices, possible causes of malfunction, methods of repair, maintenance, feedwater treatment, state laws, and the many other features that can affect a boiler, and the operator or owner-user involved with boilers, in his daily business.

Key Features:

This volume is arranged in question and answer form, it is not limited to typical standard questions and answers geared only to pass operator license examinations. The stress is on fundamentals, and where need be, it goes beyond these to help the reader grasp the meaning and depth of a lead question.
This volume should prove beneficial to the smaller plants with no licensed or trained operators and it should certainly help those plants where operators need a review of boilers prior to taking an examination or need training as operators.
Management people should find this material helpful in assessing their current practices on boiler maintenance and operation and also in ful-filling their obligation to provide a safe and legal boiler plant.
Stationary license examiners will find this volume useful in preparing examinations, thus helping to bring the standard of operating engineers up to a uniform level.

Preface Chapter 1. Usage and Application
Chapter 2. Heat Transfer and Design
Chapter 3. Fire-Tube Boilers
Chapter 4. Water-Tube Boilers
Chapter 5. Cast-Iron and Heating Boilers
Chapter 6. Special Boilers
Chapter 7. Construction: Methods of Joining
Chapter 8. Pressure, Stresses, and Forces
Chapter 9. Boiler Strength Calculation
Chapter 10. Fuels, Firing, and Combustion
Chapter 11. Combustion Safeguards and Controls
Chapter 12. Instruments and Controls
Chapter 13. Safety Appurtenances
Chapter 14. Boiler Operation
Chapter 15. Boiler-Water Treatment
Chapter 16. Maintenance, Inspection, and Repair
Chapter 17. Nuclear Power Reactors
Chapter 18. Boiler-Room Management