86 Intermediate Superheater Assemblies
Minnesota
A 55 megawatt renewable energy power plant needed to replace 86 intermediate super heater assemblies.
The boiler at the facility is a Foster Wheeler design that went into operation approximately 2007. The boiler is a natural circulation, superheated, balanced draft design, single furnace, stoker fired unit firing biomass, including poultry litter. The boiler is rated to produce steam for a steam turbine generator rated approximately 55 MW. The boiler produces 490,000 pph of steam at 1,555 psig and 980 °F.
The Superheater
Scope of Work
- Field Inspection
- Engineering (Installation/arrangement and shop fabrication drawings)
- Material procurement
- Fabricate 86 intermediate superheater pendants complete with 360 degree Inconel weld overlay in lieu of tube shields, S.S. hand-cuff tube supports, and all solid ties.
- HB Field Services performed the demo and installation on the new elements.