Abstract: A method of supporting the spiral boiler tubing that surrounds a portion of the furnace or combustion area of a steam generator. This method of support eliminates the need to weld plate to the outside of the boiler tubing thereby increasing the mass of the boiler tubing which will result in the creation of temperature differentials within the spiral tubing. In accordance with this invention, a plurality of support members are inserted within and alongside the regular spiral tubing forming a part of the furnace enclosure. These support members are periodically removed from within the plane of this furnace enclosure and re-positioned to another (usually more elevated) position within the furnace enclosure. As the support members near the top of the spiral tubing (which is also the transition from the spiral tubing to more vertically aligned tubing), these support members are secured to this vertical tubing thereby transferring the loading of the spiral tubing to the vertical tubing.

Abstract: A removable flow rate-restricting device (25) is placed and fixed in a through-opening (18) of the tube plate (15) level with which is fixed the tube (6), from inside the water box (9). The flow rate-restricting device (25) includes an orifice plate which is inserted into the opening (18) of the tube plate.

Abstract: A vertically disposed steam generator includes a pressure vessel containing: a tube plate, chambers, a bundle of U-shaped bent heating tubes with supporting anchors, a steam trap above the heating tubes, and tubes for a secondary medium discharging into the pressure vessel. The heating tubes have ends guided through openings in the tube plate and discharging a primary medium into the chambers.

Abstract: A steam generator having a tube sheet, tubes ending in the tube sheet, a chamber adjoining the tube sheet having an access opening formed therein and a device disposed in the chamber for inserting a sleeve into one of the tubes in a plurality of partial insertion strokes, the inserting device includes a movable clamping device holding and moving the sleeve in axial direction of the tube in one of the partial insertion strokes, and a stationary clamping device associated with the movable clamping device holding the sleeve during a backstroke of the movable clamping device.

Abstract: A model steam generator including a system for facilitating the inspection of the sample tubes within the boiler vessel of the model generator is disclosed herein. The system includes means for detachably connecting the tubesheet from the primary and secondary sides of the boiler vessel. In the preferred embodiment, both end of the tubesheet and the abutting ends of the primary and secondary sides of the boiler vessel are circumscribed by tapered flanges. The tubesheet is detachably connected from the primary and secondary sides of the boiler vessel by means of Grayloc.RTM.-type annular clamps which are circumscribed by grooves for receiving the abutting flanges at the tubesheet joints. Additionally, the system includes a frame for suspending the secondary side of the boiler vessel, a wheeled cart having a jack for both laterally and vertically moving the primary side of the boiler vessel and the tubesheet into a clamping position onto the secondary side of the boiler vessel.

Abstract: A flexible vibration stabilizer and method for reducing vibration in a tube in a shell and tube heat exchanger wherein the stabilizer is an elongated flexible cable or chain which may have a plurality of rigid members loosely or fixedly mounted thereon. A plug may be used for simultaneously mounting the stabilizer to the tube and for sealing same.

Abstract: A maintenance platform for reaching the upper area of the furnace (10) of a steam generator that can be quickly and easily assembled during a maintenance shutdown. The grid or frame of the platform is made up of a plurality of beams (22) extending into the furnace from opposite furnace walls (19). Cables (50) from the roof (60) support one end of the beams. Planking (66, 68) that interlocks (62, 64, 70) with the beams (22) completes the platform.

Abstract: A waste heat boiler has an elongated horizontally oriented gas pass, a steam drum extending lengthwise of the gas pass but wholly outside the same at an elevation near but not above the roof of the gas pass. Transversely extending rows of nested water tubes which are preferably L-shaped with vertical and substantially horizontal stretches have the outer extremities of their substantially horizontal stretches joined to vertical feeder headers that extend upwardly along one side wall of the gas pass, and have the upper extremities of their vertical stretches joined to collecting headers that extend transversely across the gas pass just below its roof. The rows of tubes are arranged in groups or bundles, each held together by distributing headers and receiving headers that are separately connected with the steam drum and to which are respectively joined the feeder headers and the receiving headers.