Thermal Power Plants

A thermal power plant has two storage problems at opposite ends of the process: coal going in and ash coming out. Both quietly lose capacity, and both are usually discovered the same way — a feeder starving, or the ash system tripping.

Where we work in your plant

• Coal and pet coke bunkers — hang-ups at the throat, rat-holes, wet-coal bridging, dead stock keyed to the wall
• Fly ash silos — wall build-up, ratholing, buried aeration pads
• Bottom ash and boiler ash hoppers
• Economiser and ESP hoppers — accumulations that choke ash handling
• Lignite, biomass and coke storage
• Extraction points, gates and conveying lines

What it costs while it waits

• Feeder starvation and mill trips — unplanned interruptions to generation
• Lost live capacity — a bunker cycled at a fraction of its rating, still insured and maintained in full
• Ash evacuation constraints — when the silo cannot take ash, options narrow fast
• It compounds — build-up hardens with age, so the job only gets longer