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Burner Upgrades and Repairs

Boiler UpgradesBabcock Power Services’ offer boiler upgrades and burner upgrades. BPS' retrofits for Low NOx firing include versions of BPS’ sister company, Riley Power Inc.’s market-leading Controlled Combustion Venturi (CCV® )  Burner for wall-fired and cell-fired applications. These burners virtually “plug-in” to existing burner openings without costly pressure part modifications. We have sold more than 2,000 of these to utilities and industrial facilities, including retrofits on several 1300MW units. Reductions of up to 65% of uncontrolled levels of NOx are possible without the use of overfire air. RPI also provides low-NOx gas burner technology and low-NOx burners for its TURBO® Furnaces. BPS offers not just burner hardware, but integrated system solutions with reliable products proven in long-term operation in plants like yours.

 

Fuel Conversions
Boiler Upgrades - Fuel Conversions to meet mandated lower emissions levels or to burn cheaper or more abundant fuels are a Babcock Power Services specialty. The expertise of the entire company is at your disposal to study the effect of a fuel conversion on the total boiler system and to design a cost-effective program to implement it. Our experience includes not only fuel burning knowledge, but also the effect of the new fuel on heat transfer, tube metallurgy, and back-end equipment performance.

 

Pulverizer Upgrades and Repairs

Babcock Power Services (BPS) offers a variety of Pulverizer upgrades and repairs, they are the following:

Pulverizer UpgradesGrinding Table Segments and Tires of BPS’ sister company Riley Power Inc.’s improved and proprietary long wearing alloy can be used in all MPS mills, whether furnished originally by Riley Power Inc. or other manufacturers. Riley Power Inc. is the current owner and licensor of the MPS technology for North America.

 Pulverizer Upgrades

 

 

Replacement Worm Gear Sets for coal pulverizer drives provide up to 30% more horsepower capacity because of the concave worm thread and a convex gear tooth. This transmits the load over a larger contact area, decreasing surface stress and significantly increasing service life. Standard CAVEX® replacement worm gear sets are available in a full range of sizes and ratios for coal pulverizer drive applications.

 

Pulverizer UpgradesReplacement Classifiers for any style pulverizer can overcome existing capacity limitations, increase coal fineness, improve combustion, and reduce unburned carbon loss. The SLS classifier design is available as an upgrade replacement classifier for vertical spindle pulverizer designs, regardless of original manufacturer, as well as other style mills including ball tube mills.

 

Boiler Upgrades, Rebuilds and Modifications

Boiler Upgrades: Boiler UpgradesRebuilds of retired or outdated boilers and fuel burning equipment are often a cost-effective and practical way of meeting your current system-wide steam generating needs. You may have unused steam potential in your plant which a closer look by Babcock Power Services’ experts can help uncover. We will inspect the equipment to determine the cost of rebuilding, while providing you the economic payback period to warrant the investment.

BPS can also provide cost-effective rebuilds of units damaged in service. BPS’ organization of field inspectors, boiler design engineers, and parts and tubing manufacturing facilities are available to you to get your unit back on line as soon as possible.

 

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