Our boiler has soot blowers but they do not use steam. We inject compressed air from lances that move in and out between the super heaters. We do also have some soot blowing by air on the pre heaters.
I had some ice blasters here to clean our catalyst layers, while they were here I had them try...
I believe when we introduced the SCR into this system (2016) we replaced the cold end baskets with Corten material that has a ceramic coating. It is meant to be corrosion resistant and washed if some build-up ever occurred. I believe at this point though we are well beyond the build-up that the...
One of our units is down for a major outage (coal fired steam turbine). Months before the unit came offline we one of our fuel sources had opened up and delivered us a bad seam of coal with high sulfur, nitrogen content, and high ash. Running it we began experiencing ID/FD fan stalling and lots...