Honorable Chief Engineer (Thermal) Genco, Faisalabad
Honorable Chief Engineer (Thermal) Genco, Faisalabad
Honorable
Chief Engineer (Thermal)
Genco III , Faisalabad
BY
A steam power station is a power plant in which the prime mover is steam
driven. Water is heated, turns into steam and spins a steam turbine which
either drives an electrical generator or does some other work, like ship
propulsion. After it passes through the turbine, the steam is condensed in a
condenser and recycled to where it was heated; this is known as a Rankine
cycle. The greatest variation in the design of thermal power stations is due to
the different fuel sources, like Crude oil, coal ,natural gas and nuclear.
7. Condensate pump
8. Surface condenser
12. Deaerator
19. Superheater
21. Reheater
23. Economizer
24. Air preheater
25. Precipitator
Barring gear
Barring gear (or "turning gear") is
the mechanism provided to rotate
the turbine generator shaft at a
very low speed after unit
stoppages. Once the unit is
"tripped" (i.e., the steam inlet
valve is closed), the turbine coasts
down towards standstill. When it
stops completely, there is a
tendency for the turbine shaft to
deflect or bend if allowed to
remain in one position too long.
This is because the heat inside the turbine casing tends to concentrate in the
top half of the casing, making the top half portion of the shaft hotter than the
bottom half. The shaft therefore could warp or bend by millionths of inches.
Condenser
The surface condenser is a shell and tube heat exchanger in which cooling
water is circulated through the tubes. The exhaust steam from the low
pressure turbine enters the shell where it is cooled and converted to
condensate (water) by flowing over the tubes as shown in the adjacent
diagram. Such condensers use steam ejectors or rotary motor-driven
exhausters for continuous removal of air and gases from the steam side to
maintain vacuum.
For best efficiency, the temperature in the condenser must be kept as low as
practical in order to achieve the lowest possible pressure in the condensing
steam. Since the condenser temperature can almost always be kept
significantly below 1000C where the vapor pressure of water is much less than
atmospheric pressure, the condenser generally works under vacuum. Thus
leaks of non-condensable air into the closed loop must be prevented. Plants
operating in hot climates may have to reduce output if their source of
condenser cooling water becomes warmer; unfortunately this usually coincides
with periods of high electrical demand for air conditioning.
The condenser generally uses either circulating cooling water from a cooling
tower to reject waste heat to the atmosphere, or once-through water from a
river, lake or ocean.
Feedwater heater
In the case of a conventional steam-electric
power plant utilizing a drum boiler, the
surface condenser removes the latent heat
of vaporization from the steam as it
changes states from vapour to liquid. The
heat content (BTU) in the steam is referred
to as Enthalpy. The condensate pump then
pumps the condensate water through a
feed water heater. The feed water heating
equipment then raises the temperature of
the water by utilizing extraction steam from
various stages of the turbine.
Superheater
As the steam is conditioned by the drying equipment inside the drum, it is
piped from the upper drum area into an elaborate set up of tubing in different
areas of the boiler. The areas known as super heater and re heater. The steam
vapor picks up energy and its temperature is now superheated above the
saturation temperature. The superheated steam is then piped through the
main steam lines to the valves of the high pressure turbine.
Deaerator
A steam generating boiler requires that the
boiler feed water should be devoid of air
and other dissolved gases, particularly
corrosive ones, in order to avoid corrosion
of the metal.
There are many different designs for a deaerator and the designs will vary from
one manufacturer to another. The adjacent diagram depicts a typical
conventional trayed deaerator.
Auxiliary systems
Oil system
An auxiliary oil system pump is used to supply oil at the start-up of the steam
turbine generator. It supplies the hydraulic oil system required for steam
turbine's main inlet steam stop valve, the governing control valves, the bearing
and seal oil systems, the relevant hydraulic relays and other mechanisms.
At a preset speed of the turbine during start-ups, a pump driven by the turbine
main shaft takes over the functions of the auxiliary system.
The hydrogen pressure inside the casing is maintained slightly higher than
atmospheric pressure to avoid outside air ingress. The hydrogen must be
sealed against outward leakage where the shaft emerges from the casing.
Mechanical seals around the shaft are installed with a very small annular gap
to avoid rubbing between the shaft and the seals. Seal oil is used to prevent
the hydrogen gas leakage to atmosphere.
The generator also uses water cooling. Since the generator coils are at a
potential of about 22 kV and water is conductive, an insulating barrier such as
Teflon is used to interconnect the water line and the generator high voltage
windings. Demineralized water of low conductivity is used.
The necessary protection and metering devices are included for the high
voltage leads. Thus, the steam turbine generator and the transformer form
one unit. In smaller units, generating at 11 kV, a breaker is provided to connect
it to a common 11 kV bus system.
Steam generator
In fossil-fueled power plants, steam generator refers to a furnace that burns
the fossil fuel to boil water to generate steam. In the nuclear plant field, steam
generator refers to a specific type of large heat exchanger used in a
pressurized water reactor (PWR) to thermally connect the primary (reactor
plant) and secondary (steam plant) systems, which of course is used to
generate steam. In a nuclear reactor called a boiling water reactor (BWR),
water is boiled to generate steam directly in the reactor itself and there are no
units called steam
generators. In some
industrial settings, there
can also be steam-
producing heat
exchangers called heat
recovery steam
generators (HRSG)
which utilize heat from
some industrial process.
The steam generating
boiler has to produce
steam at the high
purity, pressure and
temperature required
for the steam turbine
that drives the electrical
generator.
Once water inside the boiler or steam generator, the process of adding the
latent heat of vaporization or enthalpy is underway. The boiler transfers
energy to the water by the chemical reaction of burning some type of fuel.
The water enters the boiler through a section in the convection pass called the
economizer. From the economizer it passes to the steam drum. Once the
water enters the steam drum it goes down the down comers to the lower inlet
water wall headers. From the inlet headers the water rises through the water
walls and is eventually turned into steam due to the heat being generated by
the burners located on the front and rear water walls (typically). As the water
is turned into steam/vapor in the water walls, the steam/vapor once again
enters the steam drum. The steam/vapor is passed through a series of steam
and water separators and then dryers inside the steam drum. The steam
separators and dryers remove water droplets from the steam and the cycle
through the water walls is repeated. This process is known as natural
circulation.
The boiler furnace auxiliary equipment includes coal feed nozzles and igniter
guns, soot blowers, water lancing and observation ports (in the furnace walls)
for observation of the furnace interior. Furnace explosions due to any
accumulation of combustible gases after a trip-out are avoided by flushing out
such gases from the combustion zone before igniting the coal.
The steam drum (as well as the super heater coils and headers) have air vents
and drains needed for initial startup. The steam drum has internal devices that
removes moisture from the wet steam entering the drum from the steam
generating tubes. The dry steam then flows into the super-heater coils.
Re-Heater
Power plant furnaces may have a re-heater section containing tubes heated by
hot flue gases outside the tubes. Exhaust steam from the high pressure turbine
is rerouted to go inside the re-heater tubes to pickup more energy to go drive
intermediate or lower pressure turbines. This is what is called as thermal
power.
Boilers in some power stations use processed natural gas as their main fuel.
Other power stations may use processed natural gas as auxiliary fuel in the
event that their main fuel supply (coal or oil) is interrupted. In such cases,
separate gas burners are provided on the boiler furnaces.
The capacity of the DM plant is dictated by the type and quantity of salts in the
raw water input. However, some storage is essential as the DM plant may be
down for maintenance. For this purpose, a storage tank is installed from which
DM water is continuously withdrawn for boiler make-up. The storage tank for
DM water is made from materials not affected by corrosive water, such as PVC.
The piping and valves are generally of stainless steel. Sometimes, a steam
blanketing arrangement or stainless steel doughnut float is provided on top of
the water in the tank to avoid contact with air. DM water make-up is generally
added at the steam space of the surface condenser (i.e., the vacuum side). This
arrangement not only sprays the water but also DM water gets de-aerated,
with the dissolved gases being removed by an air ejector attached to the
condenser.
Other systems
Monitoring and alarm system
Most of the power plant operational controls are automatic. However, at
times, manual intervention may be required. Thus, the plant is provided with
monitors and alarm systems that alert the plant operators when certain
operating parameters are seriously deviating from their normal range.
Energy is extracted in the form of shaft power, compressed air and thrust, in
any combination, and used to power generators.
Combined Cycle Power Plant (CCP)
Applications
Overview
In a combined cycle power plant (CCPP), or combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT)
plant, a gas turbine generator generates electricity and the waste heat is used to
make steam to generate additional electricity via a steam turbine; this last step
enhances the efficiency ofelectricity generation.
Design Principle:
In a thermal power station water is the working medium. High pressure steam requires strong, bulky
components. High temperatures require expensive alloys made from nickel or cobalt, rather than
inexpensive steel. These alloys limit practical steam temperatures to 655 °C while the lower
temperature of a steam plant is fixed by the boiling point of water. With these limits, a steam plant has
a fixed upper efficiency of 35 to 42%.
An open circuit gas turbine cycle has a compressor, a combustor and a turbine. For gas turbines the
amount of metal that must withstand the high temperatures and pressures is small, and lower
quantities of expensive materials can be used. In this type of cycle, the input temperature to the
turbine (the firing temperature), is relatively high (900 to 1,400 °C). The output temperature of the flue
gas is also high (450 to 650 °C). This is therefore high enough to provide heat for a second cycle
which uses steam as the working fluid; (a Rankine cycle).
In a combined cycle power plant, the heat of the gas turbine's exhaust is used to generate steam by
passing it through a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) with a live steamtemperature between
420 and 580 °C. The condenser of the Rankine cycle is usually cooled by water from a lake, river, sea
or cooling towers. This temperature can be as low as 15 °C
In an automotive powerplant, an Otto, Diesel, Atkinson or similar engine would provide one part of the
cycle and the waste heat would power a Rankine cycle steam or Stirling engine, which could either
power ancillaries (such as the alternator) or be connected to the crankshaft by a turbo
compounding system.
When comparing costs several internal cost factors have to be considered. Note we are not here
talking about price (i.e., actual selling price) since this can be affected by a variety of factors such as
subsidies on some energy and sources and taxes on others:
Capital costs (including waste disposal and decommissioning costs for nuclear energy)
Operating and maintenance costs
Fuel costs (for fossil fuel and biomass sources, and which may be negative for wastes)
Expected annual hours run
To evaluate the cost of production of electricity, the streams of costs are converted to a net present
value using the time value of money. Inherently renewables are on a decreasing cost curve, while
non-renewables are on an increasing cost curve.
There are additional costs for renewables in terms of increased grid interconnection to allow for
diversity of weather and load, but these have been shown in the pan-European case to be quite low,
showing that overall wind energy costs about the same as present day power.
More fuel is sometimes added to the turbine's exhaust. This is possible because the turbine exhaust
gas (flue gas) still contains someoxygen. Temperature limits at the gas turbine inlet force the turbine
to use excess air, above the optimal stoichiometric ratio to burn the fuel. Often in gas turbine designs
part of the compressed air flow bypasses the burner and is used to cool the turbine blades.
Evaporator:
Within a downstream processing system, several stages are used to further isolate and purify the
desired product. The overall structure of the process includes pre-treatment, solid-liquid
separation, concentration, and purification and formulation. Evaporation falls into the concentration
stage of downstream processing and is widely used to concentrate foods, chemicals, and
salvage solvents. The goal of evaporation is to vaporize most of the water from a solution containing a
desired product. After initial pre-treatment and separation, a solution often contains over 85% water.
This is not suitable for industry usage because of the cost associated with processing such a large
quantity of solution, such as the need for larger equipment.
Superheater
superheater is a device used to convert saturated steam or wet steam intodry steam used for
power generation or processes. There are three types of superheaters namely: radiant, convection,
and separately fired. A superheater can vary in size from a few tens of feet to several hundred feet (a
few meters or some hundred meters).
A separately fired superheater, as its name implies, is totally separated from the boiler.
A superheater is a device in a steam engine, when considering locomotives, that heats the steam
generated by the boiler again, increasing its thermal energy and decreasing the likelihood that it
will condense inside the engine [1] [2]. Superheaters increase the efficiency of the steam engine, and
were widely adopted. Steam which has been superheated is logically known as superheated steam;
non-superheated steam is called saturated steam or wet steam. Superheaters were applied
to steam locomotives in quantity from the early 20th century, to most steam vehicles, and to stationary
steam engines. This equipment is still an integral part of power generating stations throughout the
world.
General arrangement of a superheater installation in a steam locomotive.
Applications
Economizer:
As with all cyclic heat engines, higher combustion temperature means greater
efficiency. The limiting factor is the ability of the steel, nickel, ceramic, or other
materials that make up the engine to withstand heat and pressure.
Considerable engineering goes into keeping the turbine parts cool. Most
turbines also try to recover exhaust heat, which otherwise is wasted energy.
Recuperators are heat exchangers that pass exhaust heat to the compressed
air, prior to combustion. Combined cycle designs pass waste heat to steam
turbine systems. And combined heat and power (co-generation) uses waste
heat for hot water production.
More sophisticated turbines (such as those found in modern jet engines) may
have multiple shafts (spools), hundreds of turbine blades, movable stator
blades, and a vast system of complex piping, combustors and heat exchangers.
As a general rule, the smaller the engine the higher the rotation rate of the
shaft(s) needs to be to maintain top speed. Turbine blade top speed
determines the maximum pressure that can be gained, this produces the
maximum power possible independent of the size of the engine. Their are
eight gas turbine in Faisalabad power plant and normal turbine speed is
51000rpm.
Turbine
A turbine is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid or air flow and
converts it into useful work.
The Exhaust temperature of turbine in gas turbine power station (1-8) has
4830C .It has 2 stages. Normal turbine speed is 51000 RPM.
The simplest turbines have one moving part, a rotor assembly, which is a shaft
or drum, with blades attached. Moving fluid acts on the blades, or the blades
react to the flow, so that they move and impart rotational energy to the rotor.
Early turbine examples are windmills and water wheels.
Gas, steam, and water turbines usually have a casing around the blades that
contains and controls the working fluid. Credit for invention of the steam
turbine is given both to the British Engineer Sir Charles Parsons (1854-1931),
for invention of the reaction turbine and to Swedish Engineer Gustav de Laval
(1845-1913), for invention of the impulse turbine. Modern steam turbines
frequently employ both reaction and impulse in the same unit, typically varying
the degree of reaction and impulse from the blade root to its periphery.
Operation of turbine
A working fluid contains
potential energy (pressure head)
and kinetic energy (velocity
head). The fluid may be
compressible or incompressible.
Several physical principles are
employed by turbines to collect
this energy:
Impulse turbines
Before reaching the turbine, the fluid's pressure head is changed to velocity
head by accelerating the fluid with a nozzle. Pelton wheels and de Laval
turbines use this process exclusively. Impulse turbines do not require a
pressure casement around the rotor since the fluid jet is created by the nozzle
prior to reaching the blading on the rotor. Newton's second law describes the
transfer of energy for impulse turbines.
Reaction turbines
Electrical generator
In electricity generation, an electrical
generator is a device that converts
mechanical energy to electrical energy.
The reverse conversion of electrical
energy into mechanical energy is done
by a motor; motors and generators have
many similarities. A generator forces
electric charges to move through an
external electrical circuit, but it does not
create electricity or charge, which is
already present in the wire of its
windings. It is somewhat analogous to a water pump, which creates a flow of
water but does not create the water inside. The source of mechanical energy
may be a reciprocating or turbine steam engine, water falling through a
turbine or waterwheel, an internal combustion engine, a wind turbine, a hand
crank, compressed air or any other source of mechanical energy. Generators of
gas turbines (1-8) are air cooled capacity of 32000 KVA. Voltage are 10.5 KV.
Exciting Voltage are 140V, excitation current is 540 Amps and speed is 3000
RPM.
Equivalent circuit
The equivalent circuit of a generator and load is shown in the diagram to the
right. To determine the generator's VG and RG parameters, follow this
procedure: -
Before starting the generator, measure the resistance across its terminals
using an ohmmeter. This is its DC internal resistance RGDC.
Start the generator. Before connecting the load RL, measure the voltage across
the generator's terminals. This is the open-circuit voltage VG.
Connect the load as shown in the diagram, and measure the voltage across it
with the generator running. This is the on-load voltage VL.
Measure the load resistance RL, if you don't already know it.
The maximum power theorem states that the maximum power can be
obtained from the generator by making the resistance of the load equal to that
of the generator. This is inefficient since half the power is wasted in the
generator's internal resistance; practical electric power generators operate
with load resistance much higher than internal resistance, so the efficiency is
greater.
Generator terminology
The two main parts of a generator or motor can be described in either
mechanical or electrical terms
Mechanical:
Electrical:
Excitation
An electric generator or electric motor that uses field coils rather than
permanent magnets will require a current flow to be present in the field coils
for the device to be able to work. If the field coils are not powered, the rotor in
a generator can spin without producing any usable electrical energy, while the
rotor of a motor may not spin at all. Very large power station generators often
utilize a separate smaller generator to excite the field coils of the larger.
Transformer
A transformer is a device that transfers electrical
energy from one circuit to another through
inductively coupled conductors—the
transformer's coils. A varying current in the first
or primary winding creates a varying magnetic
flux in the transformer's core, and thus a varying
magnetic field through the secondary winding.
This varying magnetic field induces a varying
electromotive force (EMF) or "voltage" in the
secondary winding. This effect is called mutual
induction.
In central thermal workshop there are many processes that have been done on
the heavy parts of gas turbines or steam power stations like rotors, diaframes
(first stage, second stage etc) different types of bearings, blasters etc
Chemical cleaning
Cleaning shop
Non destructive test shop
Cutting, Welding & grinding
Chemical cleaning:
Those parts that have high scaling can dip in the chemical for the
cleaning proposes.
Cleaning shop:
There are different processes to clean the heavy jobs (parts of the machine).
Decreasing plant
Vacuum blast junior
Vapors blasting
Steam jet cleaner
Sand blasting
Decreasing plant:
This is just like a big container or tub which is use to dip the parts that we need
to clean. In this tryo chloro ethylene is used. The normal temperature of this is
87 c. at this temperature the steam is produce and it will remove the oil and
grease from the small point and curves in the job.
Vapors blasting:
Sand blasting:
This process is used for cleaning propose. Basically sand is used in this process
the sand is throwing with a high speed on the job to clean
visual inspection
penitent method
magnetic practical inspection
ultrasonic method
x ray radio graphy
Visual inspection:
In visual inspection the job can be inspected simply without any other
machine.
Penitent method:
Arc welding
Gas welding
Tig welding
Mig welding
Spot welding
Arc welding:
Gas welding:
Tig welding:
Tungsten inert gas welding (helium + organ gas is used) also known as organ
welding
Mig welding:
Spot welding:
Spot welding is just like between two points such as cars body.
1. INTRODUCTION OF WORKSHOP. 30
2. SPECIFICATIONS OF 25 MW 32
GENERATOR ROTOR GTPS
FAISALABAD.
6. PICTURES OF GENERATOR 38 - 47
ROTOR
Initially this Workshop was established to provide repair facilities only to Gas
Turbine power station Faisalabad but later on repair facilities were extended to
other power stations. Keeping in view the rising importance of this Workshop
Authority decided to upgrade it. For this purpose in 1995 new machines and
T&P were imported from abroad and now this Workshop can handle all
turbines parts of Thermal Power Stations of Wapda.
Heavy Duty CNC Horizontal and Vertical Lathe machines, Radial Arm Drill
machine, Milling machines Overhead cranes, Heavy Duty Dynamical Balancing
and Moment Weighing Balancing machines, Alloy analyzer, Plasma Spray
Coating System, Vacuum Annealing Furnace, NDT equipments and many other
T&P is available to carry out satisfactory repair of sophisticated turbines parts
including Turbine Rotors, Generator Rotors, Heavy Duty Motors, Turbine
Casings, Diaphragms, Combustor Liners, Transition Pieces, Shroud Blocks etc.
In short now this Workshop is capable to provide repair facilities to all Thermal
Power Stations. This workshop has proved it importance in the Wapda by
putting best efforts to bring damaged power turbines back in operation within
minimum possible time and cutting down their outage time and make them
available for production of extra electric power for the country. By repairing
turbine parts of Wapda formations within country, this Workshop has saved
precious foreign exchange of billions of rupees.
In addition to precious foreign exchange saving for Wapda, this Workshop has
also earned hard cash amounting to Rs.178.254 Millions from Private
Industry since it’s commissioning. This became possible only due to additional
un-tired efforts of Engineers, Workers and Management of this Workshop.
SPECIFICATIONS OF 25 MW GENERATOR ROTOR
GTPS FAISALABAD
2 Capacity 32 MVA
5 Voltage 10.5 KV
6 Current 1682 A
9 Frequency 50 Hz
11 Insulation Class-F
CASE STUDY
The Rotor of the generator keeping in view the speed of turbine and operating
frequency in our country i.e. 50 c/s has been designed as two pole generator.
The rotor has been provided with latest excitation system i.e. ROTA DUCT. To
supply excitation current to both coils a bore of 80 mm dia. & 2000 mm in
length has been drilled in the rotor body. In this bore glass fibre rod which
accommodates two copper main lead (25x2000 mm) has been fitted. From
these excitation copper strips current is supplied to both coils of the rotor.
Fiber glass rod keeping in view the maintenance of rotor has been designed in
two pieces. The length of each half is approximately one meter.
FAULT DIAGNOSIS.
During preliminary inspection the rotor body was found dead short with the
body. First of all after the removal of both axial fans both end rings were also
removed from rotor windings. After necessary cleaning of the windings
improvement in winding resistance was not noted. So next step was to
disconnect the connecting leads from both coils and removal of the both leads
alongwith its fiber glass fitting from the bore.
After disconnecting the leads from both ends again insulation of both coils was
noted which was found as infinity. So it was concluded that the fault was with
the main exciting current supply leads.
When the main leads was pulled out from the bore only half portion with its
fiber glass & fitting came out where as the 2nd half remained in the body
which indicated occurrence of major damage to the supply leads inside the
Rotor bore.
1. Main copper strips which are two meter long had broken into two pieces
due to short circuiting.
2. Fibre glass rod in which the copper strips are adjusted had burnt due to
flash of short circuit.
3. Molten copper in the form of spatters and pieces had stuck with the
rotor body inside the bore.
4. Both bolts joining the coils with main copper strips had also given way at
their joining points with the strips
5. 2nd half of the fiber glass rod with damaged strips has stuck inside the
rotor body and was very difficult to remove.
6. The bore of the rotor body which had damaged due to short circuiting
needed through cleaning/polishing.
REPAIR STEPS.
For the removal of the 2nd half of fibre rod fitting left inside the bore and
cleaning/polishing of the bore following steps were carried out:-
1. Borescopic inspection of the available bore was carried out to check the
exact position inside the bore.
2. A 3.5 meter long cutting tool was fabricated to reduce the diameter of
the fibre rod from 80 mm to 70 mm dia & also to remove stickings of
fibre rod with rotor body.
3. Rotor was fitted on the lathe machine and with the help of the above
mentioned tool the fiber rod was machined from 80 to 70 mm dia.
4. After machining another fixture was designed/fabricated to pull out the
machine fibre rod from the body.
5. After removal of the whole fibre glass fitting boroscopic inspection of the
bore was carried out in which lot of copper spatter and pieces was found
stuck with the rotor body.
6. To clean the rotor bore honing tool was designed with which the bore
was thoroughly cleaned and polished.
7. After detail market survey material was purchased/tested as per our
requirement & then new fittings were fabricated. This activity was
carried in parallel to cut down the down time of the repair time.
8. During fabrication numerous difficulties were faced which were solved
one by one.
9. Complete new fitting was adjusted in side the rotor bore and connecting
rods were screwed and same were brazed with the field windings of the
rotor.
10.Insulation strength of the winding was checked and found satisfactory.
11.Both End Rings and Cooling Fans were fitted back on the rotor body with
the help of special fixtures.
12.Finally rotor was dynamically balanced and sent to the Power Station for
fitting in the machine.
FINAL CONCLUSIONS.
As far as the fault finding is concerned it is crystal clear that the fault has
occurred as a result of short circuiting between the excitation bars & rotor
body due to face to face of the two fibre rods which accommodates both the
exciting bars by the original manufacturer. Due to wrong machining/fitting
carbon made a path between the bars & rotor body. At this point slowly short
circuiting took place and ultimately the fibre burnt away, copper strips melted
and broke into two pieces which stopped the flow of field current to both coils
and caused tripped of Power Plant.
This was a original manufacturing fault (straight joint) which has been modified
by providing overlap joint. This will not allow the carbon to make a short circuit
path between the strips & rotor body for longer time.
It is suggested that in order to avoid the repetition of such fault on other units
same modification may please be got done at the time of
replacement/removal of end rings of the rotor.
INSPECTION TECHNIQUE.
In this method of inspection after proper cleaning of the job dye penetrant is
applied to the job and at least half an hour is given to this dye penetrant for
penetration. Then the job surface is cleaned very carefully and job is dried up.
Finally the Developer is applied on the surface of the job. This developer sucks
out the penetrant from the cracks by anti capillary action and makes it visible.
6 Bearings. 1606
27 Bushes. 64
28 Contactors. 75
29 Generator Rotors. 63
30 Pumps. 62
31 Slip Rings. 55
34 Hydrogen Seals. 60
35 Impellers. 34
36 Pressure Switches 28
37 Gears. 21
38 Diffusers. 21
39 Control Valves. 19
40 Solenoid Valves. 18
42 Shaft Sleeves. 28
43 Combustor Wrapper. 13
46 Shaft Sleeves 14
47 Wiper Seal 2
48 Casings 4
SOME SPECIAL MAJOR JOBS REPAIRED
IN CENTRAL MAINTENANCE WORKSHOP
Labyrinth Seals were also replaced with new ones, journal were polished.
Rotor was shifted on balancing machine. Necessary balancing weights were
added.
After fixing locking wire, wedges & blades seals were rectified, Rotor was
shifted on balancing machine where after successful balancing Turbine Rotor
was competed in 25 days. Rotor was despatched back to Kotri Power Station
on 23-04-2007.