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Information Field
Project Number: Valmet Engineer: Antti E. Lehtonen
K0001AEM1_ARAUHOBUR
Client Company: Arauco Client contact person: Ricardo Barrientos
Client e-mail: Ricardo.Barrientos@arauco.com Country: Chile
Site Address: Arauco Horcones, RB 2, Chile
Time: 05-04-21 – mm-dd-yy Still Going

1. Introduction

Trip purpose was to do MeOH commissioning to existing commissioned burner.

Valmet has sold new Dual Fuel Lance and MeOH valve rack. Existing fuels with
burner are Heavy Fuel Oil & Natural gas as support fuel. Burner has also CNCG
Lance.

Erection has been made by Customer with Valmet Chile supervision.

Burner head and refractory has been inspected by Valmet Chile during Erection
phase.

Burner has been commissioned earlier at 2018.

2. Installation / Cold Commissioning

Tuesday 04.05.2021, 08:45 – 19:00

• Travelling from i loca area to Arauco

• First entry to the plant, minor problems with gate and permissions.
• Meeting with client
o Discussed about burner status and Valmet´s action plan
o Burner location check
▪ Installations has been finished
▪ Asked about new Methanol lines are they cleaned?
• Customer was not sure and will check it.
• Washing´s going on at the boiler, no permit to start installation inspection.
• Program contractor is 3rd party company and will be working remotely.
• Client estimate about boiler start up is Saturday 08.05.2021

Wednesday 05.05.2021, 07:45 – 19:30

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• Plant had protest and gate access was blocked which caused Traffic Jam
at the highway. Drive to plant took around 1h – 1,5h.
• Had a small status meeting with Araucos Ricardo Barrientos.
o Boiler washing´s still going on, customer informed that maybe
tomorrow is possible to go check burner installations.
• Office work for today.
• After 12:00 PM I got message that there is possible go to boiler house.
o We started installation inspection
• During installation inspection we founded some differency comparing PID:
o Physically we have atomization by-pass valve for keeping nozzle
clean during Oil firing. We didn’t find this instrument from Valmet
pictures (electrical, nor instrument catalog or PID). Contacted to
Burner Division to clarify this. Hopefully answer comes tomorrow.
o From customer scope, there is missing temperature measurement
TI-1827
o From customer scope, there is missing limit switch from ZS-1814
with close limit. Currently works as manual valve.
▪ This is safety interlock, this needs to be discussed how to
handle.
o Tag number 252-HSV-1819 solenoid valve for condensate valve
operation is removed from the valve rack and limit switch cables
are not connected to Valmet´s LCP. Current position is cabled
straight from field to DCS. Information came from customer during
installation checking.
o Methanol control valve looks suspicious, don’t know how it works or
controls flow.
o Flame scanner eye was dirty
o Visually installations look ok
• After inspection we started flushing of MeOH lines with instrument air. It
continues tomorrow.
o Opened instrument air filter and let air through.
▪ Small particles was flying from the piping
• Agreed with customer that after flushing we do signal tests for
components and after that sequence simulation.
• Hopefully tomorrow we can continue working at the boiler house.
Customer will inform Valmet about this matter.

Thursday 06.05.2021, 07:45 – 15:45

• Came to the site, customer informed that it is not possible go to boiler

house today. Maybe tomorrow.
• Got information from Burner Division about MeOH atomization by-pass
valve for keeping nozzle clear. It seems there has been a mistake
during designing phase and nobody has been noticing it until now. We

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need to cable it, need some more information because program has
done little bit different way.
o Informed customer about changes
• Send MeOH burner interlock list to customer
• Office works mainly whole day

Friday 07.05.2021, 07:45 – 16:15

• Plan was to start signal testing at the boiler on 9:00 AM.

o Went to visit Arauco´s Ricardo Barrientos
▪ He informed that maybe afternoon is possible to start IO
and functionality testing.
▪ Customer informed that boiler start-up is scheduled on
Sunday.
▪ Waiting at the Valmet´s Container and looking project
information.
• End of the day, there was no permit to entry boiler house. Got informed
at the end of the day that tomorrow 8AM we are able to work and get
access to the boiler house.

Checked
Part / Item / Task Notes
(yy.mm.dd, Initials)
Mechanical installations are
completed (Burner, valve unit, local 06.05.2021/ALE
cabinets)
Electrical installations are completed
and tested (Signal tests)
Refractory is completed (dimensions
Valmet Chile has supervised refractory. No
ok or not?) and dried N/A
possibility to go inside.
Boiler and it’s auxiliary equipment
N/A N/A
installations are completed
Gas / Oil piping are purged / cleaned

Gas / Oil piping are pressure / leak

tested
All fuels are available

Instrument air is available (dry, no

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condensate)
Combustion air is available

Steam is available (dry, no

N/A N/A
condensate)
Electricity is available

Boiler thermal load is available and

boiler is ready for use N/A N/A

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Process values are according to

engineering documentation
Spare parts and consumables are
available at site
Project documentation is available at
05.05.2021/ALE
site

3. Commissioning
Daily report here and times

Example:

11.02.2021, 08:00 – 18:00

Part / Item Task Note / Value

Shut Off valves Restriction? timing different than normally?

Atomizing Pressure (Bar) Steady? Steam/Instrument air?

Instrument air supply (Bar)

Ignition burner, ignition air pressure Rotameter values

and cooling air pressure
Ignition burner gas pressure (Before No, electric igniter?
and after regulator)
Purge action Adjusted?

Supply oil / gas pressure (bar, kpa)

Nozzle pressure´s (mbar, kpa) Oil (mbar), Gas (kpa),

Filling Time (s)

Safety Time (s)

Pressure Control (bar) Recovery Boiler, start burners? GAS/OIL

Combustion air pressure (kpa, mbar) 30mbar

Control valves (ignition setpoint)

Flow measurement

Insulating / Heat tracing (Celsius)

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Flame Scanner settings Range A, Range B? HZ?

Nozzle Codes

Other

4. Spare Parts

No Spare Parts used.

5. Further Actions

No Future actions yet.

6. Mechanical Measurements (check drawing L-

measurements)

Where Actual Length (mm) Factory Setting (mm)

Dual Fuel Lance
310 no measurement
Igniter
145 145
CNCG Lance
175 164
N/A
N/A N/A
Gas lance
142 142
Secondary swirl 1-10
45mm min side 45mm min side

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7. APPENDIXES

Photos, Test reports,

Signature

Antti Lehtonen
Combustion Specialist
Valmet Technology Oy

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