inside a boiler

taken inside unit 1

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• coal
• plant
• boiler
• fire

[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).

[Saluki388]

Tube leak?

[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.

[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.

[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).

[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!

[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.

[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!

[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.