Reliability Centered, Multiple Year Preventative Maintenance Plan for Utility Boilers

Reliability Centered, Multiple Year Preventative Maintenance Plan for Utility Boilers: An Arctic Combustion Solution
Arctic Combustion Limited, Milton, Ontario

Project Report by
Ashiqur R Khan (ID: 0441687) MANUF 701, Walter G Booth School of Engineering Practice McMaster University September 17, 2012 Version 4.0

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Declaration by Candidate
I hereby declare that this project report entitled Reliability Centered, Multiple Year Preventative Maintenance Plan for Utility Boilers: An Arctic Combustion Solution is the result of my own research except as cited in the references. Other sources of information (i.e. consultation with the supervisor and the senior engineers) wherever used have been acknowledged. General guidance was sought from the following personnel while preparing the section entitled Arctic’s Service Procedures and Methodologies. Harry Terpstra, Service Manager, Arctic Combustion Limited Craig Matthews, Account Manager, Arctic Combustion Limited Jim Buckel, Senior Engineer, Arctic Combustion Limited Janice Koehler, Application Engineering Manager, Lakeside Process Controls Chris Calvet, Sales Engineer, Maxon, a Honeywell Company, Toronto Branch

The project report has not been accepted for any degree and is not concurrently submitted in candidature of any other degree.

Ashiqur R Khan

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Executive Summary
Arctic Combustion Limited realizes that the ability of a heating and cooling plant to operate safely and productively is highly dependent upon the integrity of the boilers. In this business case, we enquired the opportunity of multiple-year preventative maintenance plan for utility boilers. The scope includes various sizes of fire-tube and water-tube boilers firing natural gas at a rate of 400,000 BTUH or higher. The target customer base includes but is not limited to hospitals, universities, large buildings with central heating and cooling systems. As a part of the project we presented a systematic approach to implement a

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