Water Treatment Plant:

The most common source of corrosion in boiler systems is dissolved gas: oxygen, carbon
dioxide and ammonia. Of these, oxygen is the most aggressive. The degree of oxygen attack
depends on the concentration of dissolved oxygen, the pH and the temperature of the water.
The basic assumption with regard to the quality of feed water is that calcium and magnesium
hardness, migratory iron, migratory copper, colloidal silica and other contaminants have been
reduced to a minimum, consistent with boiler design and operation parameters.

WTP Flow Chart:

Apart from preparing the water for boiler, the water treatment plant will carry many tests that
lead the co-gen plant safe and efficient. Some of those tests are as follows.
Bagasse Test:

Take different samples of weight 100 grams each.

Keep them in different trays.
Put them in the hot air oven.
Maintain 100C for 3 hours.
After 3 hours weight the remaining bagasse.

The difference between the initial weight and final weight will be the moisture contents of
bagasse.
Moisture content = (Initial weight (100gms)) (Final weight)
Phosphate Test for Drum Water:
Take 10 ml of drum water.
Keep it in spectrophotometer and make it zero.
Add phosphate reagent to the sample.

 Stir it and wait for 2 minutes.

Keep in spectrophotometer and note down the readings.
Silica Test:
Silica test for boiler water will be done for every 4 hours for 5 different samples,
namely Feed water, Drum water, Superheated steam, Saturated steam, Turbine condensate.

Take samples of 50 ml.

Add 1 ml of silica reagent 1 in all samples.
Add 1 ml of silica reagent 2 in all samples.
Wait for 4 minutes.
Add silica reagent 3& 4 both of 1 mls in all samples.
Stir it and wait for 10 minutes.
Take the readings in spectrophotometer.

Ash Unburnt Percentage Test:

Muffle furnace is used to test the ash and the sample is taken at Ash silo.

Take 5 grams of sample.

Maintain 800C.
Keep it for 3 hours.
Weight the remaining ash and the weight loss will be the unburnt ash.