I used to work for a company that did the cleaning of the boilers and other industrial washdown operations. In the unit nearest the cooling tower at the south end, I can remember being practically stuffed into a hatch with a small pry bar to dislodge chunks of cinders from between the boiler tubes. If the cinders could be plucked out, we would put them in buckets to be take out of the hatch. If they had to be poked through to fall onto the next level below, they were. We worked from the top, down cleaning these cinders out. It was a cold, wet job. Wet because a washdown crew had previously hosed the entire thing down to reduce any dust and ash in the boiler. We crawled and worked directly on top of the tubes. Not enough room to even sit up. The work was done laying on out bellies or sides. Scraps of cardboard that could be found were used to lay on top of. During one of my "out of the hole" periods, I was asked to help carry pressure-wash hoses down to the truck. (No, nothing like your 2,000 psi pressure washer at home.) these hoses were 50 feet long, and about 3/4 inch thick. I thought I could carry two of those without any issue. I was wrong. While I did get two down to the truck, I must have turned the wrong way, and tweaked something in my back. That was right before lunch break. I informed my super of the pain, and he put me on the hole instead of having me crawl back in there. The rest of that shift, I sat in a chair at the hole, poking an O2 sensor in every 2 or 3 minutes to ensure the O2 was sufficient for my co-workers in the hole. To the AEP worker who found my 5 D-cell, LED Maglite in the restroom, during lunch hour. I had gone in to use the toilet, and has set the light down on the floor. With the pain I was in, I had forgotten to pick it back up and had gone maybe 50 feet from the shithouse before I noticed. As I turn around to go back.. There you were, grinning like a cheshire cat, hauling ass out of there with my flashlight. I yelled, "That's my light!" you looked at me, shrugged and practically sprinted off around the bend. You're welcome for the expensive light, and fuck you. I hope you lost it soon afterwards.
I have worked on systems at this plant over the years, but was disappointed that this video was really a half commercial/promotion and half educational program, but not all all the "plant tour" promised by the title.
I have a friend that graduated from Berkeley and she told me this plant can be easily replaced with 12 20ft x 20ft solar panels and three windmills…. so what are we waiting for?
I used to work for a company that did the cleaning of the boilers and other industrial washdown operations. In the unit nearest the cooling tower at the south end, I can remember being practically stuffed into a hatch with a small pry bar to dislodge chunks of cinders from between the boiler tubes. If the cinders could be plucked out, we would put them in buckets to be take out of the hatch. If they had to be poked through to fall onto the next level below, they were. We worked from the top, down cleaning these cinders out. It was a cold, wet job. Wet because a washdown crew had previously hosed the entire thing down to reduce any dust and ash in the boiler. We crawled and worked directly on top of the tubes. Not enough room to even sit up. The work was done laying on out bellies or sides. Scraps of cardboard that could be found were used to lay on top of. During one of my "out of the hole" periods, I was asked to help carry pressure-wash hoses down to the truck. (No, nothing like your 2,000 psi pressure washer at home.) these hoses were 50 feet long, and about 3/4 inch thick. I thought I could carry two of those without any issue. I was wrong. While I did get two down to the truck, I must have turned the wrong way, and tweaked something in my back. That was right before lunch break. I informed my super of the pain, and he put me on the hole instead of having me crawl back in there. The rest of that shift, I sat in a chair at the hole, poking an O2 sensor in every 2 or 3 minutes to ensure the O2 was sufficient for my co-workers in the hole.
To the AEP worker who found my 5 D-cell, LED Maglite in the restroom, during lunch hour. I had gone in to use the toilet, and has set the light down on the floor. With the pain I was in, I had forgotten to pick it back up and had gone maybe 50 feet from the shithouse before I noticed. As I turn around to go back.. There you were, grinning like a cheshire cat, hauling ass out of there with my flashlight. I yelled, "That's my light!" you looked at me, shrugged and practically sprinted off around the bend.
You're welcome for the expensive light, and fuck you. I hope you lost it soon afterwards.
I was on the unit 3 scrubber upgrade, the cooling town he talked about. AEP has sold off its shares of units 1&2
The air/goal mixture is blown into the boiler, not the generator.
Steam generator is another term for boiler.
I have worked on systems at this plant over the years, but was disappointed that this video was really a half commercial/promotion and half educational program, but not all all the "plant tour" promised by the title.
I have a friend that graduated from Berkeley and she told me this plant can be easily replaced with 12 20ft x 20ft solar panels and three windmills…. so what are we waiting for?
You’re an idiot
what an idiotic thing to say haha. revealing how little you know about power production