Auxiliary Steam header

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 Content
1. Auxiliary System Overview

2. Auxiliary System Operation Parameters

3. PID

4. Aux Steam Users

5. Startup ,Stop and Monitoring Adjustment

6. Troubleshooting

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1 、 Overview

Auxiliary steam system has three steam sources:

•starting boiler steam supply,
•unit cold reheat steam, (Backup source)
•five section steam extraction.(Conventional)
When the unit is started, start the boiler to provide
auxiliary steam; Under normal operation The five section
steam extraction is used as the conventional steam source
for the auxiliary steam system, The incoming steam in the
cold reheater serves as the first backup steam source.
Equipment Technical Parameters

Table Technical specification for auxiliary steam header

Specifications Model FQ-1100

Design pressure (case) MPa 2.5
Working temperature (case) ℃ 357.3
Working pressure (case) MPa 0.981
Volume M3 19.8

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Auxiliary Header Users

•Feedwater pump turbine

•Soot blowers
•Air heater
•To Turbine gland steam
•To feedwater pump turbine gland steam
•To Air preheater
•Startup steam to Deaerator
•supply, to the boiler room fuel purge
•coal feeder fire steam supply.
Auxiliary Steam System Start-Up
Check auxiliary steam system has put into operation conditions.
All users of the auxiliary supply steam the valve is closed, five sections of the steam
and reheater cold section the valve is closed.
Open the start-up boiler steam pipe and auxiliary steam header drain valve. Slightly
open the steam valve warm pipe, pay attention to the pipeline without impact vibration.
Check the auxiliary steam header gradually warm up, auxiliary steam header pressure
gradually increased.
Auxiliary steam header full warm pipe, the temperature rose to 200 ℃, check the
auxiliary steam header of the drain water normal, slow full open of the start-up boiler
steam valve to the auxiliary steam header, to improve the auxiliary header steam
pressure is normal.
Confirm the auxiliary steam pressure, the temperature is normal.
According to the situation, open the upstream and downstream drain of the user supply
steam valve, after warm pipe to supply the user steam.
When the unit starts up, the auxiliary steam system is supplied from the auxiliary
boiler. Also, an emergency shutdown of the auxiliary boiler can be initiated from the
operator console.
As the boiler is fired, the cold reheat steam becomes adequate to supply to the auxiliary
steam header through the valve, cold reheat steam supply pipe is set under house load
condition. As and when house load condition occurs,
Pneumatic regulating valve is opened and put into service to guarantee header auxiliary
steam supply rate; Manual gate valves are set before and electric gate valves are set
after this regulating valve. Hence, the regulating valve can be isolated for repair in case
of any failure. The auxiliary steam header set point will be slightly higher than the
steam pressure delivered by the Auxiliary Boiler. This allows the cold reheat steam
supply to gradually become the auxiliary steam source and will cause the auxiliary
boiler’s firing rate to decrease.
At this point, the auxiliary boiler may be shut down at the operator’s discretion. The
cold reheat steam supply pressure, temperature, and valves’ status are available to the
operator from the AUX STEAM graphic in the DCS.
Auxiliary Steam System Stop
During the operation of the unit, the auxiliary steam system shall be
kept running continuously.
Before the shutdown, the auxiliary steam supply should be turned to
start-up boiler for supply steam.
After the unit is out of service, confirm that the auxiliary system of
the unit is no user, close the auxiliary steam connection valve to start-
up boiler.
Open the auxiliary steam header drain water to reduce the pressure
for drain water.
Auxiliary Steam System Operation Monitoring Adjustment.
Unit auxiliary steam system steam source switching:
Start the initial, auxiliary steam source from the start-up boiler for the auxiliary steam
supply. When unit reheated cold section steam pressure ≥1MPa and the boiler
combustion is stable, switch to reheated cold section supply steam. When the five-
section steam extraction pressure is ≥0.7mpa, the auxiliary steam header steam source is
cut to five-section steam extraction.
During the normal operation of the auxiliary steam header, the pressure is maintained at
0.7~ 1MPa, The temperature is maintained at 280~350℃.
During normal operation, auxiliary steam header and all steam users have steam trap,
shall keep the upstream and downstream manual valve in the open state, the bypass
valve is closed and automatically adjusted by the steam trap, and check that the steam
trap is working properly.
Unit auxiliary steam header pressure the temperature is normal, auxiliary steam header
without vibration, no leakage.
Keep auxiliary steam header drain system is normal, to prevent the water cumulative in
the bottom of the header.
Troubleshooting
Auxiliary steam header pressure is high
Phenomenon:
The header pressure is more than normal.
2) The safety valve may be action.
Reason:
1) Reheated cold section to auxiliary steam control valve mistakenly open.
2) Unit auxiliary steam pressure transmitter abnormal.
Handling:
1) Immediately reheated cold section to the auxiliary steam control valve switching to
manually and decrease the opening, monitor the pressure to reduce, pay attention to
prevent the auxiliary steam over pressure. Check the safety valve.
2) If the pressure transmitter cannot be monitored abnormally, refer to the local
pressure gauge, timely control of the reheated cold section to the auxiliary steam
control valve to maintain auxiliary steam pressure normal.
Auxiliary steam header pressure is low
Phenomenon:
1) Auxiliary steam user pressure is reduced.
2) DCS and local header pressure display low.
Reason:
1) Unit load is low, five section extraction steam pressure is low, and reheated cold
section to the auxiliary steam control valve failed to open.
2) Unit auxiliary steam pressure transmitter abnormal.
3) Unit auxiliary steam consumption is too large.

4) Auxiliary steam header supply steam valve mistake closed.

Handling:
1) If the system pressure control is abnormal, it should be timely to open
reheater cold section to the auxiliary steam control valve, to maintain the
auxiliary steam pressure is normal.
2) If the unit auxiliary steam consumption is too large should reduce or
reasonably arrange the amount of auxiliary steam
3) The handling process should focus on ensuring that the shaft seal
steam supply normal.
4) Auxiliary steam header supply steam valve is closed by mistake,
should be open in time.
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