Totally OT: Power Plant tour

[jack707]

Last year I changed out catalyst those things were packed with flyash!!!. Some were 8000lbs. Some were 6000 packed. Years ago I was building a scr. and the job was shut down the boom on the 4100 center crashing down! The same job they were demoing the stack now the stack is 500ft. Up! A 6lb.sledge came down made a big hole in the grading and almost took out 2 fitters.

 

[Rock knocker]

The SCR's I was working on were on a gas turbine, so I don't believe flyash was the issue. I just think they get soaked in titanium oxide when being built way more than the designers think they do.

Kind of amazing that SCR's can even be used on a coal burner, you'd think the flyash would destroy them rapidly.

 

[gsganzer]

I had to look that up. Now I know what you're talking about.

Here's some we took out, added more titanium catalyst and then re-installed more than twenty years ago.

I don't really know what the issue was, but the factory told us they weighed 3,000 pounds. When we first came up on them with the crane, with just a lattice boom jib rigged single part, the LMI said they were going at about 8K. Although we were far inside the chart and load line, the rope stretch was kind of scary. Switched out the jib for the manual extend main boom, and went two part, and everything was hunky dory.

Rock Knocker,
What site is that? It looks like a combined cycle HRSG. I've commissioned 100's of those SCR's over the years and was most likely involved in that one in some fashion.

 

[Rock knocker]

Not a combined cycle. It's Modesto Water Districts plant.

Those are a Englehard product. We were working for them doing warranty work. We had several months earlier scaffolded up stream of the SCRs, and douched them down with TiO*2 from spray painters. Corp later decided to yard them out and drop them into a dunk tank of catalyst.

We built several combined cycle plants throughout the west, but the company went out of business in 1997

 

[jack707]

Rock Knocker,
What site is that? It looks like a combined cycle HRSG. I've commissioned 100's of those SCR's over the years and was most likely involved in that one in some fashion.

Pleasant prier ie wis. About a few miles for Ill.

 

[buickanddeere]

The idea is solar can keeping a few hydro with the existing geothermal and wind...

The greenie's dreams would be hilarious if reality was not so serious.

 

[jack707]

Pleasant prier ie wis. About a few miles for Ill.

It's all one big pipe dream!!!. Those people have ruined this country because they don't live in REALITY.