Fuel Conversion
Sugar & cogeneration mill · Maharashtra
Travelling grate boiler, 30 TPH
- Problem
- Rising coal cost and unreliable off-season coal supply
- Constraint
- Conversion had to complete within the off-season window before crushing restart
- Scope executed
- Grate and draft system modification for biomass firing
- Fuel feed system retrofit
- Combustion re-tuning and performance trial
- Outcome
- Unit commissioned on biomass ahead of crushing season start, with fuel-cost reduction measured against the prior coal baseline
- Documentation delivered
- Engineering design package
- Commissioning report
- Updated IBR records
- Duration
- 5 weeks
- Team size
- 12 technicians, 2 site engineers