Orchem Pumps

Thursday, May 31, 2012

A North Carolina "Waste to Energy" facility that burns everything from tires to refrigerators was having serious issues with build up on the fireside of the boiler tubes. The "klinkers" or build up was retarding heat transfer and causing under deposit corrosion. The other issue was the cleaning of the tubes. Costly and a safety concern for those involved. There is also a substantial revenue loss since the plant has to shut down for maintenance and repairs.
An Eastern North Carolina "waste to energy" plant was having very similar concerns and they had installed 2 high temperature fireside injection quill with outstanding results, so this plant had decided to follow the same path.

The high temperature fireside injection quill had to be built on site since the application point had to be determined. Our mechanics traveled to the plant, discerned the proper location, built the quill, and oversaw the implementation.
This had to be accomplished in a small window during a plant outage.
The plant was apprehensive about taking pictures of the actual installation which I certainly understand.
The pictures are of the high temperature quill after it was welded.
This is a "Dual Quill Assembly" which means the cooling air is on the outside of the inner quill.