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PROJECT
AL DUR II IWPP
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CONTENTS:
1. AIM ............................................................................................................................... 3
2. GENERAL DESCRIPTION ........................................................................................... 4
2.1. MAIN FUNCTIONS ........................................................................................... 4
2.2. DESCRIPTION.................................................................................................. 6
2.3. MAIN EQUIPMENT ........................................................................................... 9
3. INTERFACES..............................................................................................................11
3.1. GENERAL ........................................................................................................11
3.2. SUPPORT SYSTEMS ......................................................................................11
3.3. DEPENDENT SYSTEMS .................................................................................11
4. OPERATION CONCEPT .............................................................................................12
4.1. NORMAL OPERATION ....................................................................................12
4.2. START-UP .......................................................................................................12
4.3. SHUTDOWN ....................................................................................................13
5. INSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL .......................................................................14
5.1. INSTRUMENTATION .......................................................................................14
5.2. CONTROL .......................................................................................................14
6. REFERENCE DOCUMENTS .......................................................................................19
7. ANNEXES ...................................................................................................................20
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1. AIM
The aim of this document is to provide a description of the compressed air system for
Al Dur II IWPP project, to be erected by SEPCOIII for Haya Power & Desalination
Company B.S.C. in Bahrein.
This document defines the purpose, characteristics, control and protection philosophy
for the above-mentioned system.
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2. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The main function of compressed air system is to produce, store and distribute service
and instrument air to the plant consumers.
The instrument air will be used for the actuation of pneumatic operated valves or when
any equipment demands it.
o Gas expanders
o HRSG 11/12/21/22
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o H2 generators
o BOP control and on-off valves (steam system 11/12/21/22 & Block
10/20)
The service air will be used for plant cleaning/maintenance purposes and will be
routed to the following areas:
o Warehouse/workshop building
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2.2. DESCRIPTION
2.2.1. General
The compressed air system includes following major equipment, to produce, store
and supply the compressed air to the plant systems as mentioned above (see chapter
2.1).
o 2x100% Air Dryer (heatless regeneration type) for instrument air, with pre-
filters and after filters.
All the main equipment of this system (compressors, filters, dryers and receivers) are
located in the south-west area of the power plant. From here the service air and
instrument air distribution network fed the different areas of the plant.
Instrument air shall be dry and oil free over the full range of ambient conditions.
Heatless desiccant type air dryers shall be provided. The instrument air and service
air distribution are independently, however as they are connected, an actuated
isolation valve (00QBE10AA201) is provided in the service air distribution to close in
case of low pressure in the instrument air system. This is done to give priority to the
instrument air system.
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The compressed air system includes 3x50% heavy duty compressors, air cooled, oil
free, driven by an electric motor. During normal operation, up to two compressors will
be on duty and the other one will be in stand-by mode. Compressors will start and
shut down according to the pressure of the compressed air network and the two air
receivers (service and instrument) will act as buffer vessels to avoid excessive start-
stop cycles and to provide more stable pressure.
The filtering skid consists of 2x100% coalescing filters. The purpose of these filters is
to remove any liquids and solids that could be present after the air compressor
discharge.
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The first stage of the air treatment is made by a 2x100% configuration coalescing pre-
filter. After the pre-filter, 2x100% heatless adsorption dryers composed of two towers
that will reduce the moisture content to the required level. In case that during the
operation the air dew point is not reaching the expected quality, it takes place an
automatic tower changeover. This automatic changeover from operation dryer tower
to standby tower is made by means of an analyzer located downstream the dryer
station. A dry air stream is recirculated to the saturated tower for regeneration. The
last stage of the air treatment train has a particulate type 2x100% configuration after-
filter.
The outlet of the filtering skid is connected to a common header that conveys the
compressed air to the first air receiver. From this receiver, service air is distributed
and also dryers are fed. After the dryers, the second air receiver is installed, just
before the distribution of instrument air.
The air receivers have capacity to minimize the number of load-unload cycles of the
compressors as they act as a buffer volume of the system. They also provide some
minutes of autonomy to allow plant shutdown (when compressors are not available)
or to support operation during the transient in case of compressor trip and start-up of
standby compressor.
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For the details of the air receivers, please refer to vendor documentation.
In this section most relevant equipment and components of the system are highlighted
KKS: 00SCA11/12/13AN001
Control function: yes, compressors start and load-unload to maintain compressed air
system pressure
Reference drawings:
KKS: 00SCA21/22AT001
Maintenance: yes, cleaning and/or change of filtering media based on pressure drop
on the filter
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Reference drawings:
Maintenance: yes, cleaning and/or change of filtering media based on pressure drop
on the pre and after filters
Reference drawings:
Reference drawings:
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3. INTERFACES
3.1. GENERAL
The interfaces of the compressed air system with other systems or related equipment
are described below. The interfaces are classified according to those that are
necessary for the operation of the system (support systems) or according to those
that are provided by the system and are necessary to allow other systems to carry out
their functions (dependent systems).
Electrical Systems:
Control Systems:
Mechanical systems:
o All systems that requires compressed air, typically pneumatic valves but also GT
pulse air cleaning system, gas expanders, etc...
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4. OPERATION CONCEPT
Instrument air is required in multiple systems along the power plant, therefore this is
considered a critical system and must be always in operation.
It is expected that compressed air system will operate continuously with one or two
compressors running (configuration is 3x50%). In case air demand/consumption is
low, one compressor will operate loading and unloading to maintain the pressure in
the system, however if high demand consumers operate simultaneously (for example
GT air intake pulse cleaning systems) it is possible that a 2nd compressors will be
required to start to operate. Third compressor is not expected to be required.
In normal operation the status of the main equipment and components will be as
follows:
• One air compressor will be running continuously, and the other 2 compressors
will be in standby.
• One filter of the filtering skid will be operating and the other will be isolated (as
spare)
• One air dryer (together with one pre-filter and one after-filter) will be operating
and the other will be isolated (as spare).
• On-off valve for supply of service air will be open (as long as air in the
instrument air distribution is within normal range).
4.2. START-UP
For the start up of this system, the following conditions are required:
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• Actuated valves (control and on-off) are put in auto to operate as per logics
defined
4.3. SHUTDOWN
The shutdown of this system should be done only after all systems are shutdown as
this system provides instrument air through all the plant.
The shutdown of the system is done automatically and is summarized in the following
events:
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5.1. INSTRUMENTATION
5.2. CONTROL
In this section, descriptive narrative is provided for the control and protection of the
system. For details on the logics of this system, please refer to the following
document:
This system is in close relation with the Compressed air package PLC, therefore
some signals are exchanged between this PLC and the DCS in order to operate in a
coordinated way. Details of this exchange are included in the logic diagram document
mentioned above.
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There are no actuators / drives included in this functional group as the system control
will be done from its own PCS.
Compressed Air Functional Group receives the orders from the Automatic Plant
Sequencer.
The below table summarized the logic for the Compressed Air System Functional
Group:
Air compressors with 3x50% configuration are provided. The Air Compressor is a
package plant with its own controller. Between Air compressor local controller and
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DCS there is basic signal exchange to allow coordinated operation. The Air
Compressors are required to operate based on the pressure at the service air tank.
Normally, one single compressor will run based on the pressure of the air network.
In case pressure reduces below the load setting of the running compressor because
there is a high demand, a 2nd compressor will start and load to support the increased
demand of the network.
If the pressure recovers and reaches a high pressure setting, 2nd compressor will
unload to return to operation with one single compressor. 3rd compressor will be in
standby mode to start in case there is a problem with one of the two other
compressors.
The package controller is also in charge of avoiding unequal wear of the three
compressors. This is done automatically, by controlling how many hours is running
each compressor to regularly change the operating compressor.
The below table summarizes the logic for the Air Compressor System:
Air dryers with 2x100% configuration are provided. The Air dryers is a package plant
with its own controller. Each dryer includes 2 towers with desiccant and operation
between these 2 towers is automatically controlled by the dryer’s controller based on
dew point analyzer. Regeneration of saturated tower is controlled automatically by the
dryer’s controller. Changeover between air dryers is not automatic as this is only
required during maintenance of a dryer package.
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The below table summarizes the logic for the Air Drier System:
This valve is in charge of closing the supply of service air in case of low pressure in
the instrument air system. The idea of this valve is to stop the supply of service air in
order to give priority to the consumers of instrument air as this is related to plant
operation and therefore it is considered more critical.
Once the valve is closed, it must be re-open manually by the operator once the
problem of low pressure has been solved.
The below table summarizes the logic for the Service Air Distribution ON-OFF Valve:
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6. REFERENCE DOCUMENTS
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7. ANNEXES