Steam tables, Section I calculations, combustion and excess air, three-element drum level, transformers, pumps, turbines and refrigeration: in your course notes it's a wall of text. Here every topic fits on one page, with the drawing and what you need to remember. 109 drawn pages.
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One topic per page, the drawing that shows you how it works and the boxes with what you need to know:
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These are real pages from the book. The table of contents is the full one: 13 parts and 103 topics.
You've read the thermal expansion section three times. You close the course binder...
...and you're not sure which temperature goes where, or why the answer comes out in millimetres. It was just lines of text, one after another.
Here expansion is one page: 50 m of steel steam pipe drawn from 20 °C to 250 °C, with the growth marked at the end: 134.6 mm, and the temperature scales side by side.
And on the pages next to it, each topic gets its own: dryness fraction, equivalent evaporation, heat transfer, the gas laws and the P-V diagram.
First you understand why the pipe grows. Then the order of the calculation sticks on its own.
Your exams, applied math, thermodynamics, chemistry and materials, codes and combustion, electrotechnology, instrumentation and safety, boilers, boiler operation and water treatment, pumps and welding, prime movers, compressors and refrigeration, and the final review: 109 pages, all drawn
Imagine this:
Instead of rereading half a page on the Section I tube thickness calculation without being able to picture it...
...you open the page and find the tube drawn in section, the formula in a box and the problem solved in the same steps every time: given, absolute pressure, formula, units checked, answer.
And steam tables, excess air, power factor, NPSH and the Brayton cycle turn into drawings and tables you can read at a glance.
You stop repeating and start understanding.
That's exactly what The Power Engineer 3rd Class Sketchbook does. It's not “just another manual.” It's 109 pages in 13 parts, 103 topics each drawn on its own page, sorted by paper (3A1, 3A2, 3B1, 3B2), and at the end the frequent mix-ups side by side and an exam day checklist. Because what you see in order, you remember.
Because what your brain sees organized, it remembers.
Know what each paper covers before you open the binder: 3A1, 3A2, 3B1 and 3B2 on one SOPEEC map, 100 questions each, plus steam tables read in the same order every time.
Algebra and trig for plant problems, tanks and pipes, vectors, friction, velocity, work and power, simple machines, stress and strain, beams and fluid flow.
Temperature scales and expansion, specific heat, sensible and latent heat, dryness fraction, superheat, equivalent evaporation, heat transfer and the gas laws.
Moles and balancing equations, pH, hydrocarbons, steels and alloys, corrosion, non-ferrous materials, and reading PFDs and P&IDs.
Acts and regulations, the ASME sections and CSA B51/B52 in one map, tube thickness and safety valve calculations, combustion and excess air, piping codes, steam traps and valves.
Induction, DC machines, AC and RMS, power factor, alternators and synchronizing, motors, transformers, protection and Kirchhoff's laws.
Control modes, cascade and feedforward control, DCS, PLC and SCADA, work permits and fire protection.
D, A and O type watertubes, once-through and supercritical, HRSG and black liquor boilers, drums, superheaters, economizers, burners, fans and flue gas cleanup.
Start-up and shutdown, furnace explosions, the hydrostatic test, three-element drum level, combustion and steam temperature control, water treatment and blowdown.
Pump head and NPSH, centrifugal, reciprocating and rotary pumps, welding, weld defects and NDE, ASME IX and pressure vessels.
Impulse and reaction blading, compounding, droop vs isochronous governors, condensers, the Brayton cycle, Otto vs diesel, and cogeneration.
Compression, reciprocating and centrifugal compressors and surge, compressed air, refrigeration and CSA B52, heat exchangers, fired heaters, wastewater and maintenance.
The most frequent mix-ups side by side, the exam day checklist and what comes after your 3rd Class.
At the end of the book: The frequent mix-ups side by side and an exam day checklist.
Extra exam-style problems on dryness fraction, equivalent evaporation, excess air, the Section I tube thickness and safety valve method, pump head, power factor and transformer ratios, each solved in the same steps as the book.
Printable cards for 3rd Class vocabulary, with the term on the front and a one-line definition plus a small sketch on the back, so you can review on a break or between rounds.
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Each paper's topics one page at a time, to review between shifts and classes, with every calculation solved in the same steps.
A full review sorted by paper (3A1, 3A2, 3B1, 3B2), plus the frequent mix-ups side by side and the exam day checklist.
The theory behind what you see on the console every shift: drum level, combustion control, turbines and Section I, drawn the way the equipment looks.
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You get an email, at the address you enter at checkout, with The Power Engineer 3rd Class Sketchbook as a high-resolution PDF, to read on your phone or print and take to the plant. The two free books, Code and Plant Calculations Workbook and 300 Power Engineering Terms on Cards, come in the same way, as PDFs by email.
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For 4th Class power engineers (or equivalent) preparing the four 3rd Class papers in a Canadian province that uses the SOPEEC syllabus, for anyone rewriting a paper, and for operators who want a drawn review. Quebec has its own system and isn't covered, and neither are US state or city stationary engineer licences. Check the index above to see every topic.
The SOPEEC Third Class Power Engineer syllabus (2016 edition) as published by Technical Safety BC, the 3rd Class exam pages of Technical Safety BC and TSASK, the public scope of CSA B51 and B52, and ASME Sections I, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII and IX and B31.1/B31.3. The Section I pages follow the code formulas (for example PG-27 for tube thickness), and each worked problem states the allowable stress it uses so you can follow every step. On the exam, use the values given in the question or in the code edition your jurisdiction specifies. Exam rules can change, so check your jurisdiction's rules.
No. It's an independent study book. It isn't published or endorsed by SOPEEC, ABSA, TSSA, TSASK, Technical Safety BC or any other authority.
No. It doesn't replace your course, its textbooks, your qualifying time or your plant's procedures. What it adds: your course explains each topic in pages of text; here each topic is one drawn page, every calculation is solved in the same steps (given, absolute pressure, formula, units checked, answer) and everything is sorted by paper, so you can see where you stand and review a topic in a few minutes between shifts.
No. The problems in the Code and Plant Calculations Workbook are written for this book and aren't official exam questions. They're there for practice.
Yes. It's a high-resolution PDF: print the pages you need and take them to the plant, or read them on your phone.
You have 30 days. Tell us what didn't work and we'll refund 100%.
You don't have to reread the same page hoping it sticks this time.
You don't have to memorize formulas you can't picture.
And you definitely don't have to walk into the exam not knowing where to start.
One last thing before you decide: you already have the course and the binder. What's missing is seeing each topic on one page, every calc in the same 5 steps. 109 drawn pages, two free books, PDF by email, and 30 days to tell us if it didn't work for you.
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