EXPERIMENT-01

BOILER DRUM & DRUM INTERNALS

BOILER DRUM

Purpose :
·0 The drum is a pressure vessel.it provides the necessary space for the seperation
of water from the mixture of water and steam.

·1 It also provides a water storage for preventing th starvation of tubes.

·2 It houses the equipment needed for purification of steam

Specification:
Description: the drum is made up of two halves of carbon steel plates having
thickness 133mm.

The top half and bottom halfplates are heated in a plate heatingat a very high
temperatureand are pressed to form a semi-cylinderical shape.the top and bottom
semi cylinder with hemispherical dished ends are fusion welded to form the boiler
drum.

Water & Steam circuit:

The drum forms part of the boiler circulation system movement of fluid from the drum
to the combustion zone and back to the boiler drum.feed water is supplied to the
Trump from the economy The Economiser through the feed nozzle.
DRUM INTERNALS:

Functions:
·3 Seperation of water from steam water mixture .

·4 Mixing and distributingthe feed water.

·5 internal treatment of boiler water by adding chemicals.

·6 Facilitating blowdownfor reduction of boiler water concentration i.e. total

dissolved solids.

Various Parts:

Feed Pipe
 *It feeds water to the drum.Water having the economiser

is supplied to the drum through four feed nozzles.

Feed nozzle assembly

Baffle Plate

AUXILIARY CONNECTION:

Blowdown Line:
Two blowdown arrangements are provided in the drum.

·7 Continous Blow Down: It maintains solid concentration in the boiler within

permissible limit.

·8 Emergency blow down:It is use to normalise the high water level in the drum.

Chemical Dosing Line

·9 It used for introducing chemicals to maintain the hardness and the pH value of
the feed water in the drum.

·10 chemicals are fed in the drum by a small high pressurepump and is fed on
demand by monitoring the composition of the boiler water.

Safety valves:
 ·11 To relieve the excess pressure over and above the permissible working
pressure in the boiler drum.

Air Vents:

·12 Two no.s of air vents are provided on the drum to evacuate air from the drum
during startup and draining of the boiler.

·13 one air vent is mounted on left side and other on the right side od the drum.

TAPPINGS FOR VARIOUS MEASUREMENTS

Remote drum level indicator

·14 Water level gauges use the principal of a liquid seeking a level between two
concen tric vessels.

·15 It provides visual observation and monitering of the water levelin the steam
drum.

Pressure Gauge
A pressure gauge (BOURDEN GAUGE) with scale showing the full range is mounted on
the boiler drum.