Boiler

Pressure Part

Vertical tube Supercritical boiler technology Improved membrane water wall type boiler Modified furnace bottom sealing system to avoid air ingress New bottom ash handling system Soot blowing system to obtain a clean boiler surface New design coils with fins to minimize flow flue gas velocity to reduce erosion failure

PPT 08 by B3 ETEs

8/14/2012

 Milling

System and Combustion Control

Poor quality coal available Major modification may be carried out to meet the fuel demand and combustion requirements Low NOx burners Ceramic/Pulverized lines to get better life and reduce the lekages

PPT 08 by B3 ETEs

8/14/2012

 Flue

gas System and Ash Handling System

Since the combustion and quantity of fuel burned has changed due to deterioration in coal quality, modification of flue gas ducts, supports, ash handling system may require to be retrofitted and the sizing of the fans may also be reworked and modified Induced draft fans with hydraulic coupling Secondary air control Retrofitting dry ash evacuation system to achieve 100% ash utilization

PPT 08 by B3 ETEs

8/14/2012

 Air

Preheater

Separation of primary and secondary air to gain better heat requirement Modification in sector plates of rotary air heater Improvement in flow modeling to avoid flow channeling

Electro

Static Precipitators

Advanced Microprocessor based control system Advanced rectifiers to collect more ash Increase the retention time to achieve better efficiency Spike electrodes, rotating electrodes to achieve the environmental norms
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 Turbines

and Feed Water System

Steam turbine efficiency improvement

Advanced blade design reduce surface and exit loss Modified shaft sealing Optimization of admissions and exhaust sections Improvement in regenerative feed water heaters

There can be an increase of about 1.8 to-3.8 MW by retrofitting the LP turbine by utilizing the thermodynamic energy of buoyancy steam. Advanced improved blade designs (eg. Tapered and forward leaning guide blades) Modification or re-tubing of condenser and introducing online tube cleaning mechanism
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 Generators

Normally, rewinding is considered with class F insulation to meet new temperature limits

Control

Systems

New control valves and actuators retrofitting Incorporation of new DCS system Retrofitting the On-line optimization system

PPT 08 by B3 ETEs

8/14/2012