Maintenance of oil-fired power plant

Maintenance of power plant is crucial for safety and also prolong the life of power assets. If we
are not using appropriate maintenance, it can cause dangerous situation on site and some cause
the failure of expansive equipment in generating power. In kashima thermal power plant
maintenance is also very important task Some common strategies used for maintenance is as
follows.

Breakdown Maintenance
This is the earliest type of maintenance used in industry. In kashima thermal power plant due to
earthquake in 2011 furnace is blast in in station 1 of kashima thermal power station so for
maintenance break down they again open station 1 with 100% output after 10 days of blast

Preventive Maintenance
For the inspection of line time base maintenance strategy is use on predefined timetable. If any
equipment is damage equipment will be repair or remanufacture then after this put back in line. It
is very expansive process. In most of the cases everything is alright.
Similarly, predictive maintenance and proactive maintenance also use if power station.
Strategy Approach Signification
Breakdown Maintenance Broke then fix it High budget maintenance

Predictive Maintenance Monitor on the basis of Decision taken on the

condition. basis of equipment
Proactive Maintenance Detecting the source of Monitoring or correcting
failure the failure of root cause
Preventive Maintenance Maintenance base on Replacement of
schedule component periodically

Boiler maintenance
During the maintenance of boiler, you need to check the boiler either any leakage occurs in
boiler pipe lines check burner flame, pressures etc. on daily bases. In kashima power plant
operators always check the working of boiler on daily, monthly and annually bases if any
abnormality occurs, they maintain it on time to prevent from disaster.

Steam turbine maintenance

In thermal power plant to maintain the performance of turbine is also important so for that case
in industry periodically maintenance is required to check the parts of turbine e.g. turbine blades,
rotors, spindles shaft, seals all these parts fail either cyclic loading, wearing distortion insulation
faults. In kashima power plant technicians and engineers daily observe the turbines to prevent
any disaster.
Different systems for power plant maintenance and Safety
Keeping the maintenance in power plant is very complex and challengeable but it is required for
the safety. If problem in the plant dose not solve quickly it can cause disaster so without taking
any risk in power plant for real time status of equipment use computerize system
So, two primary system use in power plant maintenance
 SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition).
 CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System).

SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition)

To monitor the machinery and plant condition we use SCADA which is complex industrial
control system in which we use computers and network data communication.

CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System)

Because there are so many different things to keep track of at power plants, engineers in charge
of maintenance use a CMMS to help them track, share, and archive maintenance schedules and
reporting.

Figure 1 control room of thermal power plant

Safety improvement of power plant

In dangerous cases, instead of sending person send drone for inspection. It can prevent life
threatening issue.
Drone also help to collect data more efficiently then any person on filed as you can see in figure

Figure 2 conducting inspection on oil-fired power plant

use safety equipment’s like goggles , long rubber shoes on site helmet overall suit to prevent any
accident.