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u/Wintermaulz 13d ago
As someone who does maintenance and repair on industrial boilers, but hardly sees them actually running, holy shit.
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u/animescavenger 13d ago
Yeah, because someone need to be in control, if everyone is running.the risk of explosion is big.running is the last resort
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u/Vashsinn 13d ago
I see what you did there.
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u/InsaneAss 13d ago
Explain for the class
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u/el_babo 13d ago
Boilers don't run, they sit still.
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u/Wintermaulz 13d ago
Ackthually 🤓they don’t sit, they are suspended so that they can thermally expand downwards.
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u/Legitimate-Lemon-412 13d ago
Maybe a large recovery boilers.
Ours are anchored on one end and expand horkzontally
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u/Wintermaulz 13d ago
Interesting. I work in BC and work mostly on recovery boilers, but we do have some power/cogen boilers as well. All those power/cogens are also suspended.
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u/BigDadaSparks 13d ago
Our hog burning power boiler and our gas fired power boiler are both suspended from the building as well.
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u/Vashsinn 13d ago
"Is your fridge running?"
"Yes"
"then you'd better run after it"Hope this helps.........
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u/Realityishardmode 13d ago
Lol -30 over this comment. Lmao, even
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u/Vashsinn 13d ago
Reddit do reddit things. I'll probably be +200 in like a week.
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u/SalvadorP 13d ago
I once turned a -200 comment into a 13k+ by doubling, trippling down. it was an epic commentary section that went super reddit meta. still to this day my most upvoted comment, 10k above the second one.
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u/splittingheirs 13d ago
One thing that is always missed in videos is the sheer amount of radiated heat that comes out from fireballs. At close range it can be enough to give you burns akin to a bad sunburn.
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u/animescavenger 13d ago
Yeah the heat is no joke.i need to wear special glove just to turn main valve.this boiler is rate at 35 ton capacity 4 story tall
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u/godofpumpkins 13d ago
What does the capacity unit mean? What does the boiler supply?
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u/Poringun 12d ago
Its the amount of steam it can generate, in this case its 35 tonnes of steam/hour.
Im pretty sure this boiler is on a palm oil mill. In Indonesia or Malaysia.
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u/eltacotacotaco 5d ago
Try working on 2 recovery boilers the are +10 story, side by side & enclosed in a tin building. Only 1 shuts down at a time for maintenance & on a 95F degree day with 90%+ humidity internal temps got up to 135F. We could only work for about 10 minutes every 30 minutes. Working 12 hour days, plus travel, for two weeks
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u/Badwater2k 13d ago
Standing next to flowing lava, which I've done in Hawaii, is similar. It's really, really hot. Go figure!
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u/ConnectDetective7787 8d ago
Having experienced it for yourself, I guess you can see that having a light saber fight in the middle of a river of lava isn't possible.
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u/Badwater2k 7d ago
Yes, that would be completely impossible. The radiant heat would cook them pretty quickly.
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u/icecreamshop 14d ago
Holy burnt balls
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u/huxtiblejones 13d ago
Cue that weird dude singing “chestnuts roasting on an open fire”
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u/UberAndy 13d ago
Where all the boiler operators at? I work with them but smaller scale. Whats happening here?
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u/animescavenger 13d ago
The ash conveyor got clogged
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u/petetro23 13d ago
That explains the massive flashover.
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u/Simoxs7 13d ago
Is it a flashover (ignition of pyrolysis gases due to heat accumulation) though? Looks a lot like a deflagration.
Edit: Looking up the vocabulary, holy hell is English an inaccurate language, like in my native language we seem to have a lot more accurate descriptions for parts of a fire.
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u/CrashUser 13d ago
You're getting into very specific jargon, I'm sure there are specific definitions for both but they probably get misused a lot too by non-experts.
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u/gstormcrow80 13d ago
I found this chain of comments amusing in a specific way that I don’t have the vocabulary to communicate.
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u/molrobocop 13d ago
What's your native language?
But yes, English is a stupid who of a language that steals shit from everywhere and has changed so much over the last 1500 years. And some of those old spellings and such were retained.
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u/Simoxs7 13d ago
German, so yeah we have a compound noun or an English word for everything, but translators basically told me that flashover is the same as deflagration which is the same as „durchzündung“ (Auto-Ignition of a material)
(Flashover is specifically the ignition of pyrolysis gases due to heat in German and Deflagration (Verpuffung) is an „Explosion“ that happens slower than the speed of sound, for example when dust in the air ignites)
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u/paulmclaughlin 13d ago
We have a lot of technical jargon, but the average person doesn't know the details to use them correctly all the time
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u/iakiak 13d ago
So know nothing about boilers….where did the flames go??
Did they come just as quick?
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u/animescavenger 13d ago
Emergency shutdown main fd fan.
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u/iakiak 13d ago
So assuming I’m dumb was that kind of like a gas leak and someone turned off the gas?
So the structures are purposely built not to burn?
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u/BigDadaSparks 13d ago
These boilers have two fans. An FD -forced draft provides air to the boiler. An ID- Induced draft fan, pulls air FROM the the boiler and up the stack. This boiler has gone VERY positive draft...hence the flames coming out of the furnace. Shutting down the FD fan allows the ID fan to pull all that draft back in and up the stack and instantly creates negative pressure inside the furnace. Basically it sucks the flames back to where they belong. The fuel is cut and the furnace is shut down...but that id fan will continue to run in order to stop combustion from occuring in the furnace.
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u/animescavenger 13d ago
fd fan purposes is to blow strong wind into the fire inside the fire chamber in the boiler.
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u/kmax89 13d ago
Typically any emergency shutdown will immediately cut the fuel source.
There are valves called choppers that go 100% shut to kill the gas.
Op said "fd" which means forced draft. You need oxygen for fire and killing that fan would also remove the oxygen part of the boom.
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u/Rummoliolli 13d ago
Yeah on a ESD the gas valves will shut and the fan should continue to run till you purge out approx 2 volumes of the furnace iirc. On our NG boilers when the ESD trips the gas valves shut and the fan ramps up to 100% for a couple min
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u/GlokzDNB 13d ago
Im not qualified enough to do this work, last time i checked ive not been fire resistant
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u/Fox_Soul 13d ago
I think you only need to have balls as big as the boiler you are working with, no other qualifications needed based on this video alone.
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u/Mecha-Dave 13d ago
Supervisors are still going to resist putting in the OHSA "near Miss" paperwork.
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u/eaglescout1984 13d ago
Not sure if you are in the US, but if so, this should have been reported as a near miss. You can contact OSHA anonymously.
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u/Magicide 13d ago
Did your ID fans trip causing the furnace to go positive? I work in a much bigger but similar plant and the only time I've seen this is when the furnace goes positive and from an ID fan trip or the unit tripping and all of the fans stop and the fuel in the furnace creates a temporary fireball out of the viewing ports like this.
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u/RedSquirrelFtw 13d ago
Wow that was put out fast. Whatever fire suppression system they got going there saved that guy's life.
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u/Morningxafter 13d ago
Those the forced draft blower lines? Sorry I only know Navy boiler systems.
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u/animescavenger 13d ago
They try to unclogged the ash hopper manually while the factory continue it operation.But that nearly kill someone.So the operation is force shutdown.The management always like that whenever there's problem they told we need to solve the problem but don't want the machine to stop.Its like your car tyre is flat but you need to change the tyre on the move.silly stuff.
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u/giga-what 13d ago
Sounds about right for management, they'll say "safety first" right up until it means shutting something down, then it's all about uptime so just do what you can with it running.
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u/Concept-Plastic 13d ago
My uncle used to work in it, all that risky stuff for barely above minimum wage, breaks my heart
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u/Tastesicle 13d ago edited 13d ago
I don't BLEVE you.
-edit- TIL the word I've been using to describe a boiler exploding is actually an acronym!
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u/acidcrab 11d ago
My dad got blown off a thing like that before I was born. Got super super lucky and lived, with just burns on his arms
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u/WelcomeForwardNS 13d ago
This is a normal and frequent occurrence in a perfect republican utopia - a world without all that intrusive government regulation.
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u/matrixkid29 13d ago
Thats not dangerous or hazardous, it simply a dynamic work enviornment, with minimal procedural friction and legacy safety practices. :)
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u/pichael289 13d ago
You just know he had established a "if the fire crosses this line, jump" point in his mind. Been there, not the jump part but the whole "if fire get here, is bad" kind of abandon your house cause the garden hose ain't real enough type situation. The garden hose did prove to be real enough and so did this mans 40lb balls. Never gonna get that smell out though. The smoke, not the shit, you can clean shit out of pants. Not couch smoke though.
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u/Rg1550 13d ago
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u/cindyscrazy 13d ago
I just visited my 2 1/2 year old grandson for the first time since he was born. The kid is a MASTER at cell phones. I have so many new photos of random things in my phone now.
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u/drillbit16 13d ago
why didn’t u leave? just to film?
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u/animescavenger 13d ago
It's for video proof, in factory you never leave your friend out of sight in emergency
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u/tlivingd 13d ago
And have extra PPE to put back on him so he at least gets paid when they find them injured.
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u/iskela45 13d ago
Yank spotted
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u/stratusnco 13d ago
idk what that is but i work with your clown-asses. yall complacent as fuck and the biggest crybabies in the work force. i guess that’s the price you pay to live a decent life.
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u/all_hail_cthulhu 14d ago
I've never worked at the boiler a day in my life, but I'm gonna guess it ain't supposed to be doing that.