I'm dealing in the SAGD industry which has to always "pay me later". Our current designs put through water in OTSG "boilers" at 8000ppm of TDS. They are currently cleaned every 6-12 months. They are operated with an understanding that the water quality is always going to be bad. The produced...
I've also run boiler plants with less than good water and it became about the downtime versus the cost to improve this downtime. I have to qualify that this was for 2 different low pressure boilers (~350 & 600psig). Both ran for a significant period 2+ years before they had to be cleaned. The...
I'd like to know about the operations of boilers with less than ideal feed water (ASME quality). What type of maintenance are you doing? How often are you cleaning? What type of failures do you have? Do you have reliability numbers (ie/ MTTF, MTTR, etc...) I'm really interested in high...
