Experiences With Automatic Air Soot Blowers at the Oswego and Charles R. Huntley Steam Stations

This paper relates in some detail the experience obtained with full-automatic air soot-blowing equipment installed as the cleaning equipment for the external surfaces of three large pulverized-fuel-fired steam generators. It contains a brief description of the blowing equipment, compressors, and automatic controls; information of general interest as to the actual operating performance; and the relative installed cost and investment as compared to comparable steam equipment.