In March 2013 Wilmar Sugar’s Pioneer Mill identified two crack-like indications in the steam drum of their No. 2 boiler. The following day several convection bank tubes were removed from the drum in this location to reveal that these indications were real...
Sucrogen is experiencing tube failures in sugar mill boiler economisers. Economisers were provided on several boilers by the manufacturer to ensure stable and efficient operations. Several other boilers had economisers installed after the boiler was commissioned to...
Pioneer boiler No 2 was upgraded as part of the co-generation project undertaken by CSR at their Pioneer Sugar Mill during 2005. The steam supply from this boiler now supplies a single 30.8 MW(e) turbo-generator with the exhaust steam supplying the sugar processing...
In April 2019, Siemens, one of Wilmar’s turbine suppliers, released an Urgent Technical Advisory Service Bulletin to its customers to advise that Siemens had undertaken trials in which some anti-seize pastes applied to certain steam turbine components exposed to...
