Section 36(2) in Punjab Boiler Operation Engineers' Rules, 2001
(2)The examiner of an oral examination for Second Class Certificate of proficiency under these rules shall, inter alia, satisfy himself that the candidate has sufficient knowledge and practical experience in the following subjects and matters, namely :-(a)unit of force, work, power, energy and their relationship in S.I. Units;(b)familiarity with the provisions of the Indian Boiler Regulations, 1950 including calculations of dead weight safety valve, the weight and position of ball on a ever and weight safety valve;(c)combustion, heat transmission, excess air, heat loss, circulation system in a boiler, properties of steam including ability to read steam tables and mollier diagram;(d)principal types of steam boilers used on lands with special emphasis to industrial boilers and purposes and reasons for which different types of boilers are employed;(e)functions of boiler mountings, fuel pumps, feed pumps, feed heaters, economisers, super heaters, reheaters, forced, induced and secondary draught appliances, stokers, burners, atemperators, dampers and other auxiliaries;(f)operation of shell type boilers and water tube boilers with coal, oil and gas firing system with special reference to industrial boilers;(g)feed water treatment and boiler water conditioning, deaeration, corrosion, PH (a number used to express degree of acidity of alkalinity in the solution), and total dissolved solids etc; and(h)functions of measurement and controls in boiler plants and also the data logging on the operation of boilers automatic control.
