Experience with compressed air cleaning of main steam piping

Conference · Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1990 · Proceedings of the American Power Conference; (United States)

OSTI ID:6018037

Skrgic, P J ^[1]; Brookins, C ^[2]; Larson, L; Rothe, D ^[3]; Pier, J B; Goldman, G ^[4]

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1. Allegheny Power System Corp., New York, NY (United States)
2. Detroit Edison Co., MI (United States)
3. Basin Electric Power Cooperative, Bismarck, ND (United States)
4. General Electric Co., Schenectady, NY (United States)

This paper presents a summary of long-term and short-term experience that demonstrates compressed air-blow results are at least as good, and often better than steam-blows. Compressed air-blows have been used effectively on applications for supercritical boilers, drum-type boilers, and heat recovery steam generators for preoperational cleaning of main steam lines at power plants with ratings from 35 to 700 MW.

• OSTI ID: 6018037
• Report Number(s): CONF-9004133-; CODEN: PAPWA
• Journal Information: Proceedings of the American Power Conference; (United States), Vol. 52; Conference: 52. American power conference, Chicago, IL (United States), 23-25 Apr 1990; ISSN 0097-2126
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

42 ENGINEERING
BOILERS
SUPERCRITICAL STATE
STEAM GENERATORS
CLEANING
AIR FLOW
COMPRESSED AIR
HEAT RECOVERY EQUIPMENT
MAINTENANCE
AIR
COMPRESSED GASES
EQUIPMENT
FLUID FLOW
FLUIDS
GAS FLOW
GASES
VAPOR GENERATORS
421000* - Engineering- Combustion Systems