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Fire Banking and Boiler Restart Guide

The document outlines procedures for banking a fire in a boiler to save fuel, time, and prevent thermal stress during startup. It details steps for creating and preserving a banked fire, as well as the process for starting a boiler from this banked position. Key actions include adjusting fire bed thickness, managing combustion air supply, and ensuring correct water levels before reviving the fire and building up pressure.

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Fire Banking and Boiler Restart Guide

The document outlines procedures for banking a fire in a boiler to save fuel, time, and prevent thermal stress during startup. It details steps for creating and preserving a banked fire, as well as the process for starting a boiler from this banked position. Key actions include adjusting fire bed thickness, managing combustion air supply, and ensuring correct water levels before reviving the fire and building up pressure.

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FIRE BANKING AND

RESTART FROM BANKED


POSITION
Presented
by
K. Ndhlovu

1
Banking a Fire in The Boiler

Objectives
1. To save fuel on start up.
2. To save time on start up.
3. To prevent thermal stress during start up.

2
Procedure

• Shorten the fire bed:-Reduce the fire bed


thickness down to 60mm.
-Reduce stoker speed.
2. Stop the supply of combustion air:
-Stop the fans.
-Reduce the dampers to minimum.

3
Procedure cont…
3. Create the bank:
-Run in a bed of 120mm.
-Rake back the burning coals.
-Run in the banked fire into the boiler to
450mm from the guillotine door.
4. Preserve the bank:
-Lower the grate door to grate level.
-Seal the gap.
-Clean all the ashes.
4
Procedure cont…

5. Raise boiler water level to 100mm from


the top of the gauge glass.
6. Switch of the control panel.

5
Starting a Boiler From the Banked
Position
Procedure
1. Check that the water level in the boiler is
correct.
2. Switch on the control panel.
3. Revive the fire: Start the fans.
4. Position the fire bed to the correct start
up position: Rake the fires back to the
guillotine door.
6
Procedure cont…

5. Build up the fire.


6. Carry out blowdowns of the mobreys and
Gauge Glasses.
7. Build up boiler pressure.
8. Supply factory with steam:-Start opening
the main steam stop valve at 50Kpa
below operating pressure.

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