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Induction Heat Tube Stub Extraction

Eastern Canada BLRBAC/PAPTAC


Quebec City – June 2010

© 2007 BABCOCK & WILCOX CANADA LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Dan Regan
Traditional Stub Removal

• Slow
• Skill dependent
• Drum damage
- Repairs
• Safety

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Induction Heat Stub Extraction

• Fast

• Skill independent

• No drum damage
- no repairs

• Safe, simple, clean

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Induction Heating Tube Shrinking

• Insert coil into stub

• Power on

• Heat stub

• Stub expands

• Stub yields

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Cooling

• Insert air lance

• Stub shrinks

• Stub loosens

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Extraction

• Remove loose stub

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Induction Heat-and-Pull
Second method

Developed for over - rolled stubs

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• Stub removed in one piece
• Bell collapses
• 1 ½ minutes
• Drum shell unharmed

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Pulled stubs

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License

For IHTS for


• All types of boilers
& heat exchangers

• extensive use in
Japan since 1991

• extensive use in
in North America
since 2005

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Advantages
• No damage to seats

• 50% less seat cleaning required

• Cost and Schedule improvements

• Reduced downtime, shorter outages

• Safer job

• Skill independent

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