Auxiliary Steam

System

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 Presentation outline
Sources of Aux steam supply

PRDS Station

Uses of Aux steam

Flange and stud heating

Rotor heating

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 SOURCES

• Auxiliary boiler.
• Station PRDS header (from other running units)
• Under unit running condition Steam for turbine auxiliary
steam header is normally taken from extraction lines
depending on load on the turbine sources may be:
 Main steam line through pr and temp reducing valves
 CRH line

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 PRDS Station
It Consists of
• Set of pressure reducing cum control valves
• Set of temp reducing (spray) valves
For maintaining desired pressure and temp.

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 PRDS Header

• For a 210 MW Thermal Power Unit using coal as

basic fuel, auxiliary steam is one of the important
systems. The current practice is to have two
different headers:-
• Turbine Auxiliary Steam Header
• Boiler Auxiliary Header

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 Uses of Auxiliary Steam
on Turbine side
• To turbine gland seal header.
• To ejector system of condenser (main as well as
starting ejector).
• to Deaerator as pegging steam
• For flange & stud heating.
• Interconnection to station PRDS header for
supplying aux steam to other units.

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 Uses of Auxiliary Steam
on Boiler side
• Burner atomisation,cleaning, scavenging
• SCAPH charging during cold start up
• Regenerative air heater sooth blowing.
Off Sites:
• HFO station: Fuel oil system heating fuel, oil
storage tanks, pipelines, fuel oil heaters.

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 AUX STEAM HEADER

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 Flange, Stud & Rotor
Heating System

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 Flange and Stud heating
• Used for quick starting of turbine from warm or cold start.
• Helps in reducing the temperature difference of the metal to
reduce thermal stress.
• The device consists of jackets welded to side walls of casing
flanges and special piping complete with fittings and
measuring instruments for steam inlet, outlet, and drains.
• The flanges and studs are heated with live steam bled from
pipelines before main stop valve (ESV).

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 Flange and Stud heating
• The headers, supplying steam to the flanges and studs, are
provided with safety valves and pressure gauges for
regulating pressure in the headers.
• To check the temperature difference of the metal across the
width of casing and between flanges and studs of the
casing, thermocouples have been provided.
• Careful check of the metal temp. is required during heating
process.

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 Flange and Stud heating
• The temperature difference across the width of the casing flange should
be within 50°C. The temperature of outside flange surface should never
exceed that measured with a thermocouple at a maximum depth
inside the flange.
• The difference between the flange and stud temperature should not
exceed 20°C and the stud temperature should never be more than
that of the flange.
• When starting the turbine from cold or hot (temperature of metal of
the upper half of the HP- casing being up to 250°C, heating of flanges
and studs is permitted provided differential expansion of the rotor is
positive and not less than 1 mm.

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 Flange and Stud heating

It is not permitted to operate the flange heating device:

• If the differential expansion of rotor is less than 1 mm.

• If the differential expansion indicating and recording
instruments are either out of order or disconnected.
• In order to maintain proper tightening of flange joints, it is
necessary to first supply steam for heating flanges and only
then after some time to studs.

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 Rotor Heating
• In case the contraction of HP rotor reaches 0.8 mm
and that of IP rotor 1.5 mm. fresh steam is supplied
to the front sealing of HP & IP turbines. In order to
control the contractions of HP & IP rotor the steam
is supplied at a higher temperature then that of the
turbine casing at the front sealing till it comes under
control.

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 THANK YOU

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