inside a boiler

[Saluki388]

Tube leak?

[E510]

those flames are in bad shape. major afterburn from incomplete combustion. Also, slag or external fouling does not create cold spots, but actually hot spots. The heat from the fouling is not carried away by the process inside the tubes. Which then shortens tube life. Not good especially if the boiler is in hydrocarbon process.

[jjjooommm222]

I have to disagree with the guy here. There was definatly some sofa bias in there!

[zequelll]

this is what hell looks like :)

[SuperDickweed]

He's not much of a DJ is he?

[randommagnum]

It sounds like he's saying, "The real matrix-4, negative sofa bias."  I wonder what that's supposed to mean...

Is this inside the boiler or the firebox? In other words, are we looking at fire or steam creation (looks like fire).

[lakewood85]

I thought the "real" Matrix is a movie starring Keaneau Reeves and Lawerence Fishburn? As far as a sofa bias I thought they were fighting "the machines?"

[randommagnum]

See that's exactly what I thought too! :S

[noisypipes05]

@randommagnum-what your looking at here is the inside of the boiler at a coal burning power plant. They are looking for excess slag created by burning coal. When a power house like this shuts down to get work done, they usually bring in a blasting crew and use explosives to blow the slag off the boiler tubes to make work inside easier and safer. They will proceed to shoot the boiler with 10ga. buckshot to blow any excess slag off the walls.

[TheFriedolays]

@noisypipes05

Must be nice to have a camera, the power plant I work at makes us damn near stick our heads inside the boiler to observe the walls.

[HJayden]

@noisypipes05

I have done this and i have acctually used an 8 gauge on a frankenstined wheeled tripod. the shell is about the size of a 50 cent piece wide. thank god you dont shoulder it. full as hell and loud as s***. ear plugs sometimes are not good enough.

[noisypipes05]

@randommagnum- They are making sure no slag is sticking to the bolier tubes. If there is slag build up, it creates a cold spot on the tubes where it cannot be heated properly and can cause a problem.

[randommagnum]

@noisypipes05 Oh, okay. So when we say that it's "inside a boiler", we mean inside the combustion area...I wasn't sure which side of the tubes we were on, or for that matter, how big the different volumes (combustion and water/steam) were in this case. I'm used to thinking of these in terms of how a steam locomotive does it, where you have fire going through tubes immersed in water, rather than the other way around. Thanks for the info!

[mfrannyc]

@randommagnum sofa = secondary over fire air, real matrix 4 is probably just a reference used to know which part of the furnace they were video taping, negative bias probably mains that they have altered the normal control settings by a view percent in the negative direction (i.e. less secondary over fire air being added).

[randommagnum]

@mfrannyc Ah, thanks for that supplementary. I'm guessing you've worked in that business, yes? It would be hard to know that much otherwise.

[dorime71]

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[jvaljval]

CFS employee <--- get to climb in these all day!

[SHAH6008]

Very good brother. How can you do this?

[kenbasse]

looks like it could do with some soth blowing

[GreasedMunky]

holy shit that looks like a big boiler!

[Chaknil]

we got 3 of those, even bigger than this one

[peter0parker]

I am currently studying to get my boiler ticket, Im only on my second day of studying and wondered what it looked like inside a water tube boiler while it is running. Where I work we only have a small 5mw IFM Boiler.

[Chaknil]

3 water tube boilers consisting of 75 MW, 90 MW and 95 MW and 3 electro boilers of 33 MW

:):):)

[LocustLurker]

Haha! If you knew anything about boilers, you would know it was a water-tube boiler. Use your head.

[gfriedline]

At what Mass or volume rate is the pulverized fuel being fed into this furnace, looked like quite a lot. Quite amazing.

[johnsonrxr]

it not that much, i have see way more. where i work it was 32 pulverizers feeding around 2500 pound per hour each. coal.

[pwrbytrd]

Is this a watertube boiler?why is the fire on the burner so red?the fire wall needs a major clean ups to get rid of soots.

[lickthetip]

This is a clean boiler, when i have to go in to boilers where i work its awfull. It's usualy up in the elements where the klinker grows,

[madfran6]

explosion in the waiting if that is soot deposits

[Kharmak]

Whats all that flaky stuff inside?

[andyg3]

dirt, limescale, anything

[lickthetip]

I U.K. power stations where i work we call the flakey stuff Klinker.

[lordtaw]

I once had a tour of the Poletti Power Project here in New York City. I was able to peer into the boiler with the aid of a shield with glass from a welders mask. Sort of felt like you were peering into hell. Amazing sight.

[anglinae]

it is very nice  thanks for it