STEAM TURBINE 500 MW ERECTION

SPECIFICATIONS FOR THERMAL INSULATION

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CONSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURE:
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DETAILS

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APPLICATION

The following constructional/installation procedure shall be adopted. 1.1.1. The turbine/ valve casing surface shall be cleaned with wire brush to remove dust, dirt and such residues. solvent. 1.1.2. The holding construction shall consist of MS strips of 25 x 3 mm which shall be secured either with nuts and bolts or tack welded on the pads already provided on casing surface for the purpose. The holding construction shall be separately made for top and bottom half of the casing for ease of maintenance. Wherever, required, additional framework of MS strips shall be provided to impart adequate strength to the holding structure. 1.1.3. The MS Rod of 10 mm dia having length equivalent to insulation thickness are welded on the MS frame at a pitch of 250 mm (max.0). 1.1.4. Casing flange joint (parting plate) shall be provided with a separation made out of Aluminium sheet ( 2 mm thick) as a distant line between top and bottom half of the insulation. 1.1.5. All thermocouples shall be masked with sleeves made out of Aluminium sheet for proper access during maintenance and replacement when and where necessary. Any contamination due to oil/grease shall be removed with suitable

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1.1.6. Sprayed - on Rockloyd fibers (HT) shall be sprayed using specially designed spraying equipments and accessories. The fibers shall be processed to a desired pattern and finally conveyed to the application point by means of a hose. The spray gun provided at the end of the hose, supplies, the lloyd bond binder in the form of a finely distributed concentric spray. The sprayed lloyd bond binder wraps up the fibers and the wetted strike the surface to be insulated forming a continuous monolithic layer. The required bulk density and the Lloyd Bond binder proportion shall be achieved by controlling the fiber output and lloyd Bond binder quantity. It shall be necessary to use wooden pattas/probe for compacting the sprayed mass in congested and other locations in order to provide required density and thickness. Each layer shall be individually supported with the help of wire netting and MS retainers. The surface temperature limit shall be relaxed in restricted locations with the above mentioned constraints. 1.1.7. The Cat-9 (Bond Seal) finishing cement plaster shall be trowel applied all over the insulated surface with a first coat of 4-5 mm. The final coat of Cat-9 (Bond Seal) shall be applied after reinforcing Lloyd fabric all around the plastered surface. 1.1.8. The surface shall finally be finished with a coat of Lloyd FR pain 80/100 microns of special duty oil resistant and heat resistant coating. NOTE: All the pipes below turbine casing where spray type of

insulation is finished and mattresses insulation starts, shall be finished with Cat-9 hard setting compound upto 4 mtrs. Length.

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1.2. INSULATION APPLICATION FOR PIPING

1.2.1. The surface of the piping shall be cleaned with wire brush to remove dust, dirt or other such residues. 1.2.2. Likely Resin Bonded Rockloyd (LRB Mattresses) factory made machine laid machine stitched mattresses conforming to IS : 8183 having GI Wirenetting on one side of design thickness shall then be applied over the pipe surface. 1.2.3. Individual layer of mattresses shall not exceed 75 mm in

thickness and shall be applied ensuring snug fit with the surface. 1.2.4. The ends of wire netting at the longitudinal and circumferential joint shall be butted together to ensure that no gap is left at the joints and then laced with GI wire of 0.1 mm. 1.2.5. All the joints in insulation shall be properly staggered. 1.2.6. 8/10 mm thick Cat-9 (Bond Seal) finishing cement plaster shall then be trowel applied over the LRB mattresses for piping below the casing, upto 4 mtr. Length. 1.2.7. This shall finally be finished with the coat of Lloyd FR paint, special duty oil resistant and heat resistant coating in thickness of 80 / 100 microns.

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1.2.8. For all other pipes 0.7 mm Aluminium sheet shall be provided duly rolled and grooved by self tapping screws. 1.3. INSULATION APPLICATION FOR ESVS IVS MAIN STEAM VALVE LP BYE PASS VALVE CHESTS. 1.3.1. Above shall be insulated with sprayed Rocklloyd Fiber (HT) after thorough cleaning with the same procedure as applicable for cylinder casings. 1.3.2. 8 / 10 mm Cat-9 (Bond Seal), finishing cement shall then be provided as explained in 9.6 above. 1.3.3. The insulation shall finally be finished with Lloyd FR Paint special duty oil resistant, heat resistant compound of 80 / 100 microns thickness.

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