BOAS Assessors – the key to our success

13th February, 2024

Could you be part of the team? The Boiler Operations Accreditation Scheme has been running for nearly 20 years now and is in a significantly enhanced and ‘steady state’ of operation after seeing over 7500 successful candidates pass through the scheme. But what makes a successful training and assessment scheme?  One answer in the case […]

 Inadvertent steam release results in tragic outcome on cruise ship

15th February, 2024

An article edited from a news item by ‘Troublespot’, the Marine Professional magazine #IMarEST On 14 July 2020, a passenger vessel was anchored when a sudden release of steam in a feed water tank caused a crew member fatality.  Shortly after 10am on 14 July 2020 , three crew, including one junior seafarer, descended into a […]

CEA Members help out at Museum

15th February, 2024

Edited from an article by Richard Albanese, Steaming into Sustainability Project Manager – London Museum of Water & Steam For the full story see Kew News- Vol 126, January 2024 – London Museum of Water & Steam (waterandsteam.org.uk)   Over the last seventeen months we explored the feasibility of repairing our Lancashire boiler which had […]

Emission Limit Values for Hydrogen and Non-Conventional Fuels

15th February, 2024

Emission Limit Values (ELV) for combustion plants burning Hydrogen The EA and other regulators (NRW, SEPA, NIEA) are working on a project to set some guidance for operators who wish to burn hydrogen in a combustion plant and who will require a permit to do so. The current legislation that applies under the umbrella of […]