What are the boiler and combustion safety issues to avoid?

1. FUEL SYSTEMS

One of the biggest issues related to natural gas explosions is that in the industrial world, people just don’t understand that natural gas piping repairs are different from other piping repairs.

2. EQUIPMENT ISSUES

Most facilities do not have personnel properly trained in combustion equipment maintenance, start-up and shut-down procedures, or equipment operations. Most sites also do not follow proper fuel train interlock and safety testing guidelines even though they are mandated by law.

3. INTERLOCK TESTING

Burning fuel can be useful to mankind as long as it is done as a controlled process. Control means that combustion takes place where we want it, when we want it, and at the rate we want it. Fuel trains are the complicated-looking series of valves, piping, wires, and switches that provide this control.

4. HUMAN FACTOR

Operations, maintenance, and people issues are now by far your biggest combustion equipment safety issue. Statistics for boiler incidents show that nearly 40 percent of all deaths and accidents are caused by human error or poor maintenance. A lot of your success will now depend on the safety culture at your site.