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Syllabus Boiler Attendant Pharmaceutical Corporation|370/2025 Syllabus Kerala PSC: DETAILAED SYLLABUS FOR THE POST OF BOILER ATTENDANT IN PHARMACEUTICAL CORPORATION (IM)
(CAT.NO.: 370/2025) (Total Marks – 100)

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Contents

Syllabus Boiler Attendant Pharmaceutical Corporation

370/2025 Syllabus Kerala PSC

MODULE I UNITS OF MEASUREMENT [10 marks]

Systems of units, Units of length, area and volume, Units of mass, Units of
force, Units of work and power, Units of energy, Important measurements –
Pressure, Temperature, absolute pressure, atmospheric pressure, gauge
pressure, Pyrometers, Volume, Quantity of heat, Mechanical equivalent of
heat.

MODULE II: PROPERTIES OF STEAM[10 marks]

Formation of steam, Effect of pressure on the boiling point of water,
Conditions of steam, Saturated steam, Dry saturated steam and wet steam,
Superheated steam, Supersaturated steam , Properties of steam, Dryness
fraction Methods of determination of dryness fraction of steam, Degree of
superheat, Specific volume of water, wet steam, dry steam, superheated
steam, Concept of Enthalpy, Temperature- Enthalpy diagram.

MODULE III: STEAM BOILERS – TYPES, FUNCTIONS AND CLASSIFICATION [12 marks]

Functions of a Boiler, Classification of boilers, Terminology of boilers ,
Lancashire and Cornish boilers, Multi-tubular fire tube boilers: Horizontal and
vertical boilers, single pass and multi pass boilers, Locomotive boilers, Vertical
cross tube boilers, Cochran Boilers, Scotch Marine fire-tube boiler, Water tube
boilers, Babcock and Wilcox boilers, Stirling boilers, Integral furnace boilers,
external furnace boilers, waste heat recovery boilers, small industrial boilers,
packaged boilers, dry back and wetback boilers, low pressure, medium
pressure and high pressure boilers.

MODULE IV: BOILER MOUNTINGS AND ACCESSORIES [13 marks]

Steam boiler mountings and accessories, Safety valve, Water level indicators,
Pressure gauge, attachment for inspector’s test gauge, Steam stop valve, Feed
check valve, Blow off cock, manhole, mud hole, fusible plug, economisers, Air
pre-heaters, Super heaters, Feed pumps, Injectors, automatic water level
controller.

MODULE V: DRAUGHT SYSTEM [10 marks]

Definition of draught, Classification of draught, Functions of a chimney,
Natural draught, Determination of a height of a chimney to produce a given
total static draught, condition for maximum discharge through a chimney,
Efficiency of a chimney , Draught losses, Artificial draught, Advantages of
mechanical draught, Induced draught, Forced and balanced draught , Power
required to drive a fan , Steam jet draught.

MODULE VI: PERFORMANCE OF BOILERS [8 marks]

Evaporation, Boiler performance, Equivalent evaporation, steam generation,
boiler efficiency, Boiler trial, Boiler house instruments, Boiler house records,
heat losses in boilers.

MODULE VII: FUELS [10 marks]

Classification of fuels, solid fuels, Liquid fuels, gaseous fuels,
Hydrocarbons, Calorific value of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels,
Experimental determination of calorific value of a fuel, Bomb colorimeter.

MODULE VIII: COMBUSTION OF FUELS[10 marks]

Combustion of a fuel, modes of heat transfer, laws of Thermodynamics,
Minimum quantity of air required for complete combustion of 1kg of solid
or liquid fuel, Excess air, Gas analysis by mass and by volume, Determination
of air supplied from volumetric analysis of flue gases, Determination of air
leakage in boiler flues, Calculation of heat losses, Flue gas analysis

MODULE IX: BOILER WATER TREATMENTS [12 marks]

Scaling, corrosion and erosion in boilers, Boiler feed water parameters,
Impurities in feed water, temporary and permanent hardness, Feed water
treatment systems, Mechanical Treatment, Chemical Treatment, Heat
Treatments