Auxiliary Cooling Water System:

It provides a continuous supply of cooling water for removing heat rejected by the
components like oil coolers, alternator air coolers, air compressors and some boiler
auxiliaries. Heat exchange will be done in between the components and the auxiliary cooling
water and now the flow will sent to cooling tower where water is cooled to certain
temperature and thus the process continues.

Ash Handling System:

Ash handling refers to the method of collection, conveying, interim storage and load
out of various types of ash residue left over from solid fuel combustion processes. Ash
handling systems may employ pneumatic ash conveying or mechanical ash conveyors. A
typical pneumatic ash handling system will employ vacuum pneumatic ash collection and ash
conveying from several ash pick up stations-with delivery to an ash storage silo for interim
holding prior to load out and transport.
In our co-gen we use Dense Ash Conveying type of ash handling system. It is a
pneumatic pressure system conveying dense ash at a low velocity. This system consumes less
energy due to its smaller amount of conveying air, for the bore of an ash conveying pipe can
be made smaller. This is suitable for conveying a large volume and the corrosion of ash pipes
is reduced due to its low velocity conveying. Fly ash is fed into an ash conveying pipe

through dense ash conveying (DAC) feeders and conveyed to a fly ash silo at a low velocity
in a pneumatic air stream by a compressor. After storing in the silo, the fly ash is conveyed
like the vacuum conveying system.

Instrument air compressor:

The compressed air system in power plant is one of those critical systems of the plant which
is necessary for day to day routine operations in the plants during all situations whether it is
project activities, commissioning activities, normal operation of the plant, overhaul & general
maintenance activities. Most of instruments, valves & electrical breakers in the plant requires
instrument air for on-off operations whereas service air is used to operate many pneumatic
equipments, air operated hand tools and for other general service purposes. In co-gen power
plant reciprocating compressors are used, in the general arrangement the piston executes
reciprocating motion in the cylinder, which is either air or water cooled, and is provided with

a head which contains valves. The piston rings are for sealing the air. The piston is connected
to the driving mechanisms by means of suitable lines or elements.

Fuel Handling System