Saturday, March 7, 2015

07/03/2015



Unit 6 Optimisation Summary Programme
Average Load (MW) Activity
Lower limit Upper limit
200 400 Unit on load and stable - Mill 40 commissioning (hot)

ACTUAL:


-          Situation at 7:00 Boiler drained
-          Aux boilers drained (Aux boilers also contaminated)
-          7:00 1st aux boiler Start
-          Next turbine start expected 07/03/2015 13:00

-          20:00 Boiler and turbine ready to start after several drains due to high conductivity
-          Expected boiler start 08/03/2015 4:00
-          Expected turbine start 08/03/2015 7:00

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Friday, March 6, 2015

06/03/2015



Unit 6 Optimisation Summary Programme
Average Load (MW) Activity
Lower limit Upper limit
200 300 Unit on load,  2 mills in services, commission HP and LP heaters


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     ACTUAL

 
-          7:00 Turbine ready to start as per Eskom schedule, boiler not ready due to problems at the mills (no details given to us)
-          7:40 One mill started

-          9:36 Turbine start
-          9:42 Turbine @ 3000 RPM
-          9:51 Synchronization
-          10:26 Load 190 MW
-          10:48 Load 230 MW
-          Commissioning of LP Heaters 2 and 3
-          11:41 Second mill in service
-          12:16 Load 300 MW
-          12:25 Mill 30 trip
-          Plant shut down for LCM filters cleaning

-          19:00 LCM filters clean, turbine ready for start
-          19:00 Water analyse show high content of silica (4x over acceptable value), boiler must be drained
-          Next start expected 07/03/2015 7:00

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