This course is designed to benefit personnel responsible for maintaining the performance, reliability, and availability of their power plant’s coal pulverizers.

This course addresses preventive and corrective maintenance to optimize equipment performance, and recommends procedures and practices before, during, and after mill maintenance overhauls.

The training will enhance participant knowledge to better:

• Identify critical inspection points and conduct inspections
• Execute routine maintenance and adjustments
• Differentiate typical from abnormal wear
• Increase reliability and availability
• Optimize grinding capacity and efficiency

Duration

2 Days

Target Audience

• Supervisors
• Mechanical Maintenance

Prerequisites

• Instruction is given in English; therefore, a reasonable ability to read and understand spoken English is required

Class Size

Maximum number of students:  18

Learning Objectives

This course will provide basic knowledge on the following:

• Key mill design features that impact capacity
• Functions and critical care issues for both major and auxiliary pulverizer systems and components
• Points and processes for effectively inspecting a mill during operation, short outages, and overhauls
• Adjustments that should be made based on
• Inspection findings
• Overhaul procedures for major pulverizer components
• Proper methods for setting air flow and milling system discharge fineness
• Causes of, and responses to, pulverizer fires