Standard Technical Features of BTG System for Supercritical 660/800 MW Thermal Units

xi) Minimum tube thickness at the bends in no case shall be less than the
minimum tube thickness for the straight tubes calculated in the manner
described above. For this purpose appropriate thinning allowance shall
be considered while calculating the thickness of the bends

xii) In case water wall orifice are provided, these should be supplied with
indexing holes and index pins.

xiii) Other Provisions

a) Provision for future installation of additional soot blowers shall be

made in the furnace so that after commissioning of each unit, the
same can be installed, if the operational experience warrants the
same. For this purpose the furnace construction shall preferably be
provided with wall box openings. Necessary space provision in
layout for providing approach and platform for future soot blowers
shall be kept in the original design so that same can be installed
whenever the future soot blowers are required. The loads for these
platforms shall be considered in the boiler structure design.

b) Erosion resistant shields shall be provided for tubes/ header

affected by gas impingement/ laning effects (e.g. in a between
SH/RH, economizer and furnace walls openings for economizer
bypass etc.).

c) Tapping points at five levels shall be provided for furnace vacuum

monitoring (in addition to routine monitoring).

d) All around seal plates of stainless steel type 430 or better (6-mm
thick minimum) welded to furnace hopper for sealing against air
ingress.

e) Panel to panel welding in burner zone may be avoided to maximum

possible extent.

f) Evaporator section shall be provided with sufficient number of

temperature probes for metal temperature measurement as per
standard and proven practice of the OEM. A suggested criterion
for the same is to provide one temperature probe for every three
consecutive tubes.

g) Stainless steel expansion markers/ indicators shall be provided on

all four furnace walls to monitor thermal expansion and predicted
thermal expansion at different levels shall be indicated.

6.5.4 Steam separator(s)

i) Design Code IBR.

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