Treatise on Indian Boiler Regulations

As Amended by
Indian Boiler (Amendment) Regulations, 2020 dated 11-09-2020, w.e.f. 11-09-2020
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Description
I happen to see the Boilers Act and regulation made thereunder. I was astonished to see that major portions of the regulations were in fps system. This assumed more importance as we went metric by law on December 1956 and even after 64 years we are still talking about inches, tons and pound force. But then I look up the date of the Act on the subject, which was 23rd February of 1923 and the regulations were made in 1950 and I understood the reasons for regulations being in not metric units. Going deeper I found that the metric units have been used but of much older version. At one time gravitational force was in vogue, which was the force experienced by a body of known mass under standard gravity condition. International Community adopted International System of Units abbreviated as SI in 1960. We have been following by the Act of the Parliament the International System of units since 1976. The Parliament enacted, on 8th April, 1976, the Standards of Weights and Measures Act (60 of 1976). According to SI there is a unification of units of energy whether mechanical, electrical or heat. Unit of energy is joule for all energy measurements. A clear distinction was made between mass and weight. The unit of force was declared as newton while that of mass as kilogram. The weight of a body was taken as the force experienced by it at a particular place. Gravitational unit of force like kilogram force (kgf) was abrogated. Gravitational unit of force along with millimetre as unit of length was in vogue in engineering field. The symbols of all units in International System of Units have been assigned unambiguously. Normally, symbols of units are in brief case' except those which have been named after the names of the scientists like newton symbol N. No plurals exist for symbol of units. For kilogram the symbol is kg which remains unchanged even if the value of a particular quantity is several kilograms. For writing the value of the particular quantity there are two items, one is a numeral and another is its units. One may write distance between Delhi and Agra is 250 kilometres or just 250 km but not 250 kms. There is a space in between the numeral and its symbol. All symbols are written in upright form.

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Contents
History of Boilers
The Indian Boilers (Amendment) Act, 2007
The Boilers Act, 1923
Indian Boiler Regulations, 1950
Chapter I : General Requirements, Application of Standard Conditions and Exceptions thereto
                   Standard Requirments
Chapter II : Materials of Construction steel Plates, Rivets, Section and Bars in Carbon Steel
Chapter III : Construction and Workmanship General
Chapter IV : Regulations for Determining the Working Pressure to be allowed on various
                     Parts of  Boilers  other than Fusion Welded and Seamless forged Drums
Chapter V :  Fusion Welded and Seamless forged Drums for Water Tube Boilers and Superheaters
Chapter VI :  Valves, Gauges and Auxiliaries
Chapter VII : Boiler and Superheater Tubes, Headers and other parts tubes
Chapter VIII :Steam-Pipes and Fittings
Chapter IX :  Regulations for the Registration of Boilers and Inspection of Boilers and Steam-Pipes
Chapter IXA : Safety of persons inside Boilers
Chapter X :   Electrode Boilers
Chapter XI :  Standard Conditions for the Design and Cosntruction of Economizer, Feed Pipes,
                       Feed  Heaters and other Similar Vessels Economisers
Chapter XII : Shell type Boilers of Welded Construction
Chapter XIII : Qualification Tests for Welders engaged in Welding of Boilers and Steam-pipes
                       under Construction, erection and Fabrication at site in India and in Repairing Boilers
                       and Steam-Pipe by Welding
Chapter XIV : Small Industrial Boilers
Chapter XV : Feed Water for Boiler
Forms
Appendices
The Boiler Operation Engineers' Rules 2011
Chapter I : Preliminary
Chapter II : General
Chapter III : Board of Examiners
Chapter IV : Examination
Chapter V : Certificate
Chapter VI : Application for Examination
Chapter VII : Eligibility Criteria
Chapter VIII : Syllabus for Examination
Chapter IX : Mode of Examination
Chapter X : Grant of Certificates
Chapter XI : Enquiry
The Boiler Attendant's Rules, 2011
Chapter I : Preliminary
Chapter II : General
Chapter III : Board of Examiners
Chapter IV : Examination
Chapter V : Certificate
Chapter VI : Application for Examination
Chapter VII : Eligibility Criteria
Chapter VIII : Syllabus for Examination
Chapter IX : Mode of Examination
Chapter X : Grant of Certificates
Chapter XI : Enquiry
The Boiler Appeals Rules, 2013
The Central Boilers Board (Nomination of Members ) Rules, 2008
Amendments  Amending Boiler Regulations, 1950
Units and Conversion Factors
Central Boilers Board- Constitution Thereof
Standard Specifications for Boilers and associated topics
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Author Details
S.V.Gupta, Former Director, Weights & Measures, Govt. of India