2017

Sealing Air Leakage Report

Submitted by:

Inspection Team Members

Eng. Ashraf Fahmi

Preventive Maintenance Manager

M.Gamal
April 13 Asec Engineering and Management
4/13/2017
 Table of content
1.Introduction Page 3

2. Sealing air leakage

2.1 Sealing air direction Page 3

2.2 Sealing air leakage Page 4

3. Retainer wear Page 6

4. Wear in inner wear sleeve Page 7

5. Wear of protection duct Page 8

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 1. Introduction
From the wall of the Coal mill housing the sealing air is directed to the center piece through a Sealing air duct
the sealing air passes through drillings in the center piece and roller shafts of the air seals of the three rollers.
These consist of rings which form chambers around the shaft seals. The pressure in the sealing air chambers is
always higher than in the grinding compartment. This will prevent ingress of material into the shaft seals,
thereby elimination the risk of damage to the seals.

The protection duct which covered with densit is consists of the sealing air duct and rollers lubrication pipe.

2. Sealing air leakage

2.1 Sealing air direction

The sealing air through from the sealing air duct to the section A in Fig 2.1 then through from section B to
the drilling in the center piece (center Yoke) to rollers sealing chamber.

There is a relative motion between Section B and section A where section B moves in vertical direction and
Section A moves in an axial direction during rollers vertical motion up and down position so that the
spherical shape ends (concave and convex shape) is desired to reduce opportunity of the sealing air to escape
during relative motion see Fig 2.1.

Fig 2.1

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 These spherical ends equipped with 2 pcs retainers to keep the ends close as possible together during rollers
down motion to enhance air leakage prevention see Fig 2.2.

Fig 2.2

2.2 Sealing air leakage

Complete inspection has been done during the mill shutdown at 09.04.2017 on the sealing air duct to detect
air leakage problem.

Check steps

1- Start the sealing air fan.

2- Lowering the rollers down.
3- Check the leakage of sealing air.
4- Rising the Rollers in up position
5- Check the leakage of sealing air.

The inspection team notices that:

There is a high air leakage between the inner wear sleeve and inner sphere at the internal side
of protection duct in the both of up and down position see Fig no.2.3, Fig no.2.4 and Fig 2.5.

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 This leakage could affect directly on the Rollers seals and bearings.

Fig 2.3

Leakage from
this side

Fig 2.4

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 Fig 2.5

3. Retainer Wear
After visual inspection the retainer was worn out and the tolerans between the retainer and protection box
flange (0.5 + or 0.5) mm is not applied due to retainer body and bolt wear.

There is two retainers one of them in a good condition and the other was completely damaged (high wear
level), the retainer bolt, screw and shims has been worn out see Fig 3.1.
Worn-out Retainer Worn-out Retainer Retainer

Fig 3.1

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 4. Wear in inner wear sleeve
There is a wear in the inner wear sleeve (Outer side) as shown in the fig 4.1.

Fig 4.1

5. Wear of The Protection Duct

After the visual inspection the protection duct was worn out, and there is an air leakage from the protection
duct see Fig 5.1.

Fig 5.1

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