· Two fuel oil strainers or one duplex basket fuel oil strainer.
· Two 100 percent capacity fuel oil electric heaters (if required).
The Fuel Oil Supply System shall provide light Arabian crude oil as required, from the Fuel Oil
Receiving and Storage System to the steam generator burners.
Two pumping and heating sets shall be provided for each main boiler and the auxiliary boiler at
an area located near the bund wall of the fuel oil storage tanks.
Fuel oil shall flow through an individual duplex suction strainer for each pair of fuel oil pumps.
Each fuel oil pump shall discharge fuel oil through a check valve and manual discharge valve.
The fuel oil shall then flow through the heaters and shall be routed to the fuel oil header which
supplies oil to each individual boiler. A pressure sustaining accumulator shall be provided to
maintain the oil pressure to the boiler during system disturbances and sudden load changes.
The fuel oil heaters for the main boilers shall use auxiliary steam as a heating medium to raise
the fuel oil temperature to a required temperature for oil atomization in the boiler furnace.
Electrical heaters shall be used to heat the oil for the auxiliary boiler.
A recirculation line with a pressure sustaining control valve shall be located at the outlet of
each fuel oil pump. The pressure sustaining control valve shall maintain pump discharge
pressure at a set value determined by the control room operator.
The discharge pressure of each fuel oil pump shall be controlled by the pressure sustaining
control valves which shall adjust the quantity of oil returned to the tanks via the oil
recirculation line.
The fuel oil pumps shall be started, stopped, and placed into standby operation from the DCIS
and shall be a part of the plant automation sequential control. The standby pump shall start
should the oil header pressure fall below a preset value or if the running pump trips.
Fuel oil temperature shall be controlled by modulating the steam inlet valves to the fuel oil
heaters to maintain the desired set point. Fuel oil outlet temperature signals shall be sent to
the DCIS which shall position the steam flow control valves. In the case of the auxiliary boiler
fuel oil heating, the heat input to the fuel oil from the electric fuel oil heaters shall be
controlled.
The differential pressure transmitter across each fuel oil pump suction strainer shall provide
high differential pressure alarms in the main control room via the DCIS. Each transmitter shall
also provide local indication.