Boiler Operation, Maintenance and Water Treatment Technology

A boiler fails through its water long before it fails through its firing. Scale from hardness, corrosion from dissolved oxygen, caustic attack under deposits and carryover from poor steam separation all originate in treatment and show up as tube failures, efficiency loss and contaminated steam. The firing side has its own discipline, and the safety side is not negotiable. This week covers all three, with water treatment given the weight it actually deserves rather than treated as a chemistry appendix.

It runs 7 times over the published calendar, in 6 cities and live online. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Explain how feedwater quality determines boiler life, with the mechanisms named.
• Set and control a treatment regime, and interpret the test results.
• Operate the firing side for efficiency without losing combustion safety.
• Carry out the statutory and routine safety checks, and know what each proves.
• Diagnose carryover, scale and corrosion failures to their cause.

Boiler operators and shift engineers, utilities and maintenance engineers, water treatment and laboratory staff, and HSE staff with responsibility for steam plant.

Short input, then work. Across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• A water treatment and testing regime for the delegate's own boiler.
• An efficiency assessment identifying the two largest losses.
• A safety check routine mapped to what each check actually verifies.

A GATI certificate recording what you attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended.

Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.