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Coal Handling - Fundamentals

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Coal Handling - Fundamentals Courses

Power Plant Generation Training

Duration: 1.00 Hrs

Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video, MobileReady

Coal handlers work with a variety of equipment designed to help them perform the job of keeping a plant supplied with coal. This equipment, known collectively as the coal handling system, provides an efficient way of carrying out basic coal handling operations, which includes receiving, transporting, storing, and preparing coal. Coal handling systems can also be designed to perform other functions such as weighing coal, taking coal samples, controlling coal dust, and removing ash. This course explains how coal handling systems receive, transport, and store coal outdoors.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Describe the equipment generally used to receive coal and deliver it to coal transport equipment.
  • Explain how conveyors, chutes, and flop gates are used to direct the flow of coal through a coal handling system. Outdoor Coal Storage
  • Identify how coal can be delivered to a coal pile.
  • Explain how coal can be stored to reduce erosion and spontaneous combustion.
  • List three ways that coal can be reclaimed from a coal pile.

Duration: 1.00 Hrs

Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video, MobileReady

Coal handlers work with a variety of equipment designed to help them perform the job of keeping a plant supplied with coal. This equipment, known collectively as the coal handling system, provides an efficient way of carrying out basic coal handling operations. These operations include receiving, transporting, storing, and preparing coal. Coal handling systems can also be designed to perform other functions such as weighing coal, taking coal samples, and controlling coal dust. In addition, coal handlers may be involved in removing the ash produced when coal is burned. It is important for coal handlers to be familiar with the various types of coal handling equipment and with the jobs that they need to perform to keep a coal handling system operating safely and efficiently. This training program explains how coal handling systems generally operate. It also describes equipment that carries out some of the major operations and support functions involved in coal handling.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Explain how breakers and crushers are used to prepare coal.
  • Describe how magnetic separators remove tramp iron from coal.
  • Explain how trippers are used to fill bunkers or silos with coal. Weighing, Sampling, and Dust Control
  • Give two reasons why coal should be weighed, and describe three types of scales used to weigh coal.
  • Explain why coal samples should be taken and explain what a representative sample is.
  • Explain why coal dust must be controlled, and briefly describe four ways to control it.

Duration: 1.00 Hrs

Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video, MobileReady

Coal handlers work with a variety of equipment designed to help them perform the job of keeping a plant supplied with coal. This equipment, known collectively as the coal handling system, provides an efficient way of carrying out basic coal handling operations, which includes receiving, transporting, storing, and preparing coal. Coal handling systems can also be designed to perform other functions such as weighing coal, taking coal samples, controlling coal dust, and removing ash. This course describes how coal handling systems collect and remove ash and describes the jobs coal handlers need to perform to keep a coal handling system operating efficiently.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Identify the two types of ash produced in a boiler and explain why they must be collected and removed.
  • Name four devices used to collect fly ash and explain how they work.
  • Recall two basic types of bottom ash removal systems and describe how they generally operate. The Coal Handler’s Job
  • Describe some of the ways that coal handlers can protect themselves and others on the job.
  • List several of the jobs a coal handler may perform and explain what each of these jobs entails.
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