Kerala PSC Fireman 2025 Syllabus and Exam Pattern – Download PDF

Are you preparing for the Kerala PSC Fireman Exam 2025? The official syllabus for the 2025 exam has been released, and candidates can now start preparing with the updated syllabus and exam pattern.

In this blog, we will provide you with all the essential details regarding the Fireman exam, including the latest syllabus and exam pattern. We’ll also share some valuable tips to help you prepare effectively and boost your chances of success. Keep reading to find out more!

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Preparing for the Kerala PSC Fireman Exam 2025? Below, we will discuss the expected syllabus and exam pattern for the Kerala PSC Fireman Syllabus 2025. So, read on to get a better understanding of the syllabus and exam pattern of the Kerala PSC Fireman Exam 2025.

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Unit I: Safety and Hand Tools (Marks: 10)

• Importance of Safety and General Precautions observed in the workshop
• Accident prevention and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
• First Aid methods
• Hazard identification and avoidance
• Safety signs: Danger, Warning, Caution, Personal safety messages
• Fire extinguishers – types and uses
• General safety precautions in Boiler house
• Different equipment and instruments used for boiler
• Hand tools and simple measuring instruments
• Cutting tools and their operations

Unit II: Units and Measurements (Marks: 10)

• Systems of units
• Units of length, area, and volume
• Mass, weight, and density
• Work, Power, and Energy
• Heat and Temperature
• Pressure – absolute, atmospheric, and gauge pressure
• Pyrometers
• Volume and Quantity of heat
• Mechanical equivalent of heat
• Boyle’s Law, Charles’s Law, and Pascal’s Law
• Precision measuring instruments and gauges

Unit III: Fasteners and Sheet Metal (10 Marks)

• Nomenclature of screw threads – types
• Nuts & Bolts – introduction and types
• Spanners and studs
• Keys and keyways – types and functions
• Sheet metal: cutting snips, tools, stakes, and types
• Hand shearing machine – functions
• Types of sheet metal joints
• Rivets – types, uses, methods of riveting, specifications, and safety precautions
• Pipe and pipeline fittings

Unit IV: Types of Steam & Air Draughts (Marks: 10)

• Wet steam, Dry steam, Super-heated steam
• Types of air draughts: Negative, Balanced, Positive
• Formation of steam
• Effect of pressure on the boiling point of water
• Conditions of steam
• Methods of determination of dryness fraction of steam
• Degree of superheat
• Specific volume of water, wet steam, dry steam, and superheated steam
• Concept of Enthalpy
• Temperature–Enthalpy diagram

Unit V: Boilers – Types, Functions and Classification (Marks: 10)

• Functions and classification of boilers
• Terminology of boilers
• Lancashire and Cornish boilers
• Multi-tubular fire-tube boilers: Horizontal & vertical, single pass & multi-pass
• Locomotive boilers
• Vertical cross-tube boilers
• Cochran Boilers
• Scotch Marine fire-tube boiler
• Water tube boilers – Babcock & Wilcox, Stirling boilers
• Integral furnace and external furnace boilers
• Waste heat recovery boilers
• Small industrial boilers

Unit VI: Boiler Mountings, Accessories and Maintenance (Marks: 10)

• Boiler mountings and accessories
• Safety valve
• Water level indicators
• Pressure gauge & attachment for inspector’s test gauge
• Steam stop valve
• Feed check valve
• Blow-off cock, manhole, mud hole, fusible plug
• Economizers, Air pre-heaters, Super heaters
• Feed pumps, Injectors, Automatic water level controller

Unit VII: Draught System (Marks: 10)

• Definition and classification of draught
• Functions of a chimney
• Natural draught
• Determination of chimney height to produce a given total static draught
• Conditions for maximum discharge through a chimney
• Efficiency of a chimney and draught losses
• Artificial draught and advantages of mechanical draught
• Induced draught, Forced draught, and Balanced draught
• Power required to drive a fan
• Steam jet draught
• Types of steam: Wet, Dry, and Super-heated
• Types of air draught: Negative, Balanced, and Positive

Unit VIII: Fuels and Performance of Boiler (Marks: 10)

• Classification of fuels: Solid, Liquid, and Gaseous
• Hydrocarbons
• Calorific value of fuels – solid, liquid, gaseous
• Experimental determination of calorific value (Bomb calorimeter)
• Evaporation and Boiler performance
• Equivalent evaporation and steam generation
• Boiler efficiency and Boiler trial
• Boiler house instruments and records
• Heat losses in boilers

Unit IX: Combustion of Fuels and Boiler Water Treatments (Marks: 10)

• Combustion of fuels and modes of heat transfer
• Laws of Thermodynamics
• Determination of air leakage in boiler flues
• Calculation of heat losses
• Flue gas analysis
• Scaling, corrosion, and erosion in boilers
• Boiler feed water parameters and impurities in feed water
• Temporary and permanent hardness of water
• Feed water treatment systems: Mechanical, Chemical, and Heat treatments

Unit X: Boiler Operating Procedure & Inspection, Rules and Regulations (Marks: 10)

• Boiler start-up and shut-down procedures
• Monitoring parameters during operation
• Period of inspection and inspection preparedness
• Hydro test procedure and Open test procedure
• Tube puncture, safety and blow-down valve leakages
• Fusible plug blown, low water level, excess drum pressure
• High flue gas temperature, back firing, water carryover in steam
• Overview of the Boilers Act, 1923
• Indian Boiler Regulations, 1950
• Inspection, testing, and certification of boilers

Kerala PSC Fireman Exam Pattern 2025

The official exam pattern for the Kerala PSC Fireman 2025 has been released. The exam will consist of Objective Type questions. Be sure to review the full exam pattern and syllabus to ensure you are fully prepared. Stay updated for any further official announcements.

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