Learning Outcomes

Having completed this course you will be able to:

• Explain why we use steam instead of other energy fluids
• Summarise the history of steam in engineering
• Break down heat fundamentals (thermodynamics, latent heat, sensible heat)
• Describe heat transfer (conduction, convection and radiation)
• Outline combustion theory (efficiency, heat values...etc.)
• Identify steam properties such as wet, dry, saturated, enthalpy
• Discuss boiler design, and their advantages and disadvantages