Typical cold start

-Generally, ensure boiler is capable of supply steam , check level of oil in tank.
-Warm up of main steam inlet line to the turbine up to the isolation valve.
-Continue warm up slowly tell the temperature reaches at least 80 85% of the main steam
temperature.
-Ensure availability of sufficient cooling water supply.
-Start A pump ; observe discharge valve and air venting from condenser.
-Line up cooling water so that minimum cooling water flow is stablished.
LUBRICATING SYSTEM:
- Start the centrifuge and keep it running to ensure moisture free lubricating oil in the lube oil tank
before starting the lube oil pump . Check the quantity of oil in tank.
-Line up lube oil coolers.
-Start the auxiliaries lube oil pump and check the pressure available at all the bearing inlets.
BARRING GEAR:
-Start the jack oil pump and check its discharge pressure.
-Ensure turbine and Barring gear motor shaft is stationary and then engage the barring gear attachment
lever with the rotor.
-Start the barring gear motor and ensure the rotor is rotating.
VACUUM PULLING IN THE CONDENSER:
-Start supply sealing steam to the glands and maintain the pressure just above atmospheric pressure.
-Starting the starting ejector vacuum pump to build up vacuum in side the condenser.
-After reaches certain vacuum take the service ejector in to service.
ROLLING OF TURBINE:
-Open the check valve slowly by building up the trip oil pressure and observe the turbine speed.
-Keep the speed constant for some time to allow for uniform heating of the turbine.
-Ensure the barring is stopped and disengaged when the speed raises.
-Observe the bearing vibration and temperatures.
-Increase the speed by opening steam admission valves at a rate mentioned with respect to the machine
start up curve.
-Care should be taken to increase the turbine speed rapidly when it approaches critical speed.
-When machine approaches full speed confirm that the main oil pump as taken over by observing AOP
motor current.
-Observe that the governor has started functioning as the machine reached full speed.
-Stop the AOP and keep in mode.
-Before synchronization check all the protections of of the turbine.
-Close all the turbine drains.
-Synchronize the machine and load the machine as per start up and loading curve.