Unit Cold Start Up

Initial activities: ACW, CCW System, Instrument air and Service Air System, Cooling Tower, AHP and CHP are in Service. All Boiler vents and S/H drains are open. Clearance received for Boiler Filling. Activities 00:00 Boiler filling started with fill pump. Bottom Ash Hopper and Seal Trough filled. Run AC scanner Fan. 00:30 Start one LDO pump. Set pressure 7 kg/cm2. Start all Air Preheaters. Isolate PAHs from FG and Airside. 00:40 Start one BCW Booster pump. Charge Aux. steam header from other unit. Open AS 210 Valve. Extend aux. steam to OHP. Put HFO tank heating in service to get tank temp. 700C. 01:15 Start one HFO pump. Take one steam heater in service. Insert AB & CD oil elevation guns. Normalize the valves. Open atomizing steam valves and tracing line valves. At drum water level +300 mm start one BCW pump after closing purge and vent valves. Drum level will drop to +100 mm. 01:40 Start second BCW pump at +100 mm drum level and normalize the level. Put Boiler Fill Pump on recirculation and close filling valve. Line up air and flue gas path. Put aux. control damper on auto. Ensure turbine is on barring gear and SLC of lub oil and JOP ON. Boost H2 pressure to 3.2 kg/cm2. Purity > 98 %. Check turbovisory, bearing temp and Generator system parameters. 01:50 Start one ID fan and one FD fan. Start second ID fan and adjust airflow 700 T/Hr. Adjust Furnace draft -20 mmwcl. Start furnace purge. Purge Complete. 02:10 Open LDO trip valve. Set oil pressure 7-kg/cm2 and atomizing air pressure to 7 kg/cm2. Select LDO and air in AB elevation and give a start command. Light up boiler with AB elevation. Close drum vent B72, 73, 74 and 75. Open E19 Eco-recirculation valve. Set furnace draft to -5 mmwcl. Inform chemist on duty. Run ESP rapping motors on programmer mode. Start HP control fluid pump. Start deaerator filling with boiler fill pump. 02:30 Charge MDBFP and line up low load line.

Open turbine side MS line, CRH line and HRH line atmospheric drains. Line up CEP to deaerator and start one CEP. 03:30 Extend deaerator pegging from aux. steam. Start APH soot blowing with air. At boiler drum pressure 2 kg/cm2, close SH, RH, ECO and drum vents and throttle start up vents. Start MDBFP on recirculation. Start gland drain pump. Open CBD 50% to control drum level if necessary. At drum pressure 5 kg/cm2, close SH drains. 05:00 At drum pressure 7 kg/cm2, Start 3rd BCW pump. At drum pressure 10 kg/cm2, charge turbine gland steam header. Open AS2 valve. At drum pressure 15 kg/cm2, start second HFO pump and take second heater in service. 05:30 Start oil elevation CD as soon as furnace exit FG temp is more than 200C. Ensure HFO oil temp. at firing floor 1100C. Change LDO to HFO in AB elevation. Close MS line, CRH line, HRH line atmospheric drains at turbine side. Before closing ensure that water is not coming from drains. Start both vacuum pumps one by one and apply gland sealing at -2000 mmwcl vacuum. Start seal steam exhauster. Adjust gland steam pressure to 0.015 kg/cm2 and put control on auto. Ensure Gland steam header temp. > 1700C. Raise drum pressure to 25 kg/cm2. 06:00 At -8000 mmwcl vacuum in condenser, open MS, CRH, HRH, strainers, drain valves going to flash tank. Open boiler O/L MSV bypass valves. Open boiler O/L MSV. Open HP bypass warm up valves. Start second CEP. Reset the Turbine by lowering starting device to 'ZERO'. Open LP bypass. Open HP bypass. Set temp. to 320C. Close generator breaker isolators. Start one PA fan. Set PA Header pressure 780 mmwcl. PAHs to be taken in service from FG and air side. Open SH spray, RH spray block valves, if necessary. 06:15 Open HP bypass @60 % slowly. Open drains after stop valves. MAL 11,12,13,14. Set speed reference ZERO, starting device 0% and speeder gear 100%. Ensure stop valve opening criteria X1,X2,X3 fulfilled. Open stop valve HP/ IP by raising starting device upto 70%. Rolling of Turbine :- Ensure criteria X4,X5 fulfilled. TSE influence is 'ON'. Load limit set 60 MW. Load reference 50MW. Pressure control on 'Limit mode. Load control ON. Load gradient '25 MW/Min. Load gradient 'ON'. Set speed reference '360 rpm. Tracking device 'ON'.

07:30 Turbine rolled to 360 rpm. Ensure turning gear cuts off at 240 RPM. Check turbovisory and bearing temp. Soak the turbine till TSE margin +/- 300K. Gland steam charged through CRH (if required). GS Temp > 170C Ensure speed up criteria X6 are fulfilled. Check turbovisory and other parameters of TG set. Ensure drum level -100mm. Raise speed reference to 3000 rpm without stopping in between. Observe turbine vibration. Ensure critical speed 900,1548, 1896, 2700 passed quickly. Turbine rolled to 3000 rpm. JOP cuts off at 540 rpm. AOP cuts off at 2850 rpm. Ensure turbovisory and other parameters of TG set. Close field breaker. Switch AVR set point on 'AUTO'. 07:45 Voltage build up and increase set point to rated value 21 KV. Synchronizing: Put synchronization switch 'ON' (COD-8). Turn generator synchronization selector switch to Auto mode (ATRS) (COD-8) Release the synchronization (COD-7). Put the synchronizer 'ON'. After matching voltage and frequency, M/c is synchronized and 50 MW load picked up on the machine by raising speed reference. Check changeover from speed control to load control (if not, slowly raise load reference). Raise load limit to 200 MW. Put generator synchronization on OFF and synchronization switch 'OFF position (COD-8) Put synchronizer locked. Put synchronizer 'OFF' (COD-7). 08:00