A boiler requires thorough inspection on both waterside and fire side, following components in

boiler requires thorough inspection

1. All the pressure parts of boiler
2. Boiler Drum
3. Boiler Tubes
4. Water columns
5. Blow-off and Blow down valves in boiler
6. Safety and safety relief valves
7. Nozzles
8. Refractory setting seals
9. Insulations of different parts in boiler
10. Casing in boiler
11. Sometimes hydrostatic testing is required for compliance with local or insurance
company requirements.
12. External inspection on boiler can be made while the boiler is in operation.
13. After boiler is shut down proper inspection of its accessories must be made.
For the water side inspection of boiler following inspections must be taken
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The burner flame must be extinguished and fuel supply lines should be shut down.
Oil gun assemblies must be removed from the boiler
Places where gas is used the supply lines must be blanked off
All valves in the boiler must be properly tagged and padlocked
The non-return valve and header locked valve in the boiler must be closed and drain

locked valve must be opened

6. Internal areas of pressure parts should be examined to detect any type of corrosion or
cracking of the tube sheets, tube crackings, furnaces and drums
Following abnormalities on the interiors parts of the boiler must be inspected with care
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Cracks
Broken Stays
Erosion
Corrosion
Cracked Fittings
Scale and thin paces in the drums
Greasy and oily spots on the upper half of drums
The interior parts of the tubes must be inspected to detect scale and deposits

Following components must be inspected to find if there perforations are free from deposits
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Dry pans
Baffles
Internal Feed Pipes
Chemical Feed Pipes
Scrubbers
Surface Blow Off connections
Surface Blow down Connections
All the interior fittings

For Fire Side inspection following areas must be inspected

1. Condition of baffles
2. Gas passes
3. Refractory and metal
4. Setting Refractory
5. Poured Refractory
6. Soot Blower Lances
7. Support Bearings
8. All brick tiles and refractory walls
9. Door Linings
10. Outer covering of furnace and boiler
For the External Inspection of boiler we need a visual inspection only, which requires the
inspection of following parts
1. Gauge Glasses
2. Water Columns
3. High and low water alarms and cut offs
4. Water level controls
5. Blow offs
6. Blow down feed water valves
7. Check Valve
8. Feed line at the entry to the boiler
9. Safety Valves
10. Boiler Stop Valves
11. Boiler Non-return Valves
12. All pipes connecting various controls
13. The condition of water column must be examined
14. Fuel lines
15. Electrical Wiring

16. Burner linage

17. Pressure and temperature switch
18. Modulation Temperature Control.