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HOW TO ORGANIZE YOUR NEW POWER PLANT - 2 '> :\ Tips on Coordinating Station Construction and Start Ups 5 i If future needs ore net onticipoled properly, getting o new station under way can be one long tale of woe. Here's some advice from an engineer who has followed up many such jobs By O C SWIFT, Iboteo Sirrkti Inevpotaltd A l Y * *- Il % > Cories u( all new plant orders, speci fications, instructions, design prints and letlcis should be sent to the plant opersting superintendent promptly. Advising him of your plans In advsnee of setusl construction helps him make suggestions or objections. Superintendent's' rvcordi are also more complete with this information. His files aid in settling questions that often arise during starting and testing. Oesidna they are valuable for future operation and maintenance. Design Changes. Before end during construction, you ore likely lo discover a few items that must be changed to assure safe operation. And during con struction other worthwhile improve ments may become apparent that can be made without additional cost or delay. Usually a job can he laid out a num ber of ways. Just because the design differs slightly from ihsi most liked by operator*, start-up men, service engi neers and others Is not always reason enough to warrant extensive changes. Construction Requirements. Assuming ' proper design, the construction superin tendent must build the plant, os de signed, in a safe and workmanlike man ner. He should do this promptly and si minimum cost to the owner. The man ner of construction has a considerable effect on starting, testing ond ultimate operation. Items damaged during shipment or installation should-ho adequately re paired or else replaced. Koulty equip mail causes trouble sooner or later, pos sibly at a time when a shutdown may be embarrassing and costly. Installed equipment should be clean, level and solidly set. All required connections should be in plsce and the moving ele ments lined up, cleaned ond lubricated. Preferably, operators should assist in this work to become familiar with tha new equipment. Taka special paint that grease and debris, such as rags, bottles and welding rods, are not left inside of apparatus. Construction Completion. I| || usually uneconomical to completely finish a new project before placing it in operation. Set up the construction schedule to eausa minimum interference with early opera tion. Locker- rooms, floors, stairs and railings should be finished. Remove un necessary scaffolding, and apply heat insulation where possible. Piping should have been carefully cleaned before erec tion, then hydrostatically tested and flushed with water or air to clean out refuse. Well before starting dale, expedite installation of Instruments, small piping and miscellaneous electrical work, in cluding control wiring and lighting. These hems-usually take longer then expected and are essential in safe opera tion. Storf-up Coordination. A month In six weeks before the start-up date, hold conference of key operators, start-up men, contractors, manufacturers' repre sentatives und construction men. A definite schedule (or stsrt-up activities ^ with proposed dates (or each step should; be set up. j Request for service engineers of var-. ions manufacturers should be made far * enough in odvance to have them at the ' plant several days before start.up. Thiiv gives them time to look over the instsl- lotion and make necesaary `changes be-j (ore actual operation. Construction to Operation. As each '- section of the plant is completed it' should be turned over lo the operators.. Thereafter, let construction men do no j work on that equipment without obtain-r ing clearance from the operators. What `i to do and when should Be clearly un-' derstood. fn this way, yob avoid aeci-) denis to personnel and damage. > Construction men should be excluded from operating areas after equipment' Is turned over to the operators, exeepl' where work Items remain to be done. e Any construction work In operniing: areas should cause minimum interler-{ ence. { When extending an existing plant, it is advisable to install separating parti- ' linns to Isolate dirt and noise of new , construction work from operating sec-1 lions of the plant. Shop, warehouse and -' toilet facilities for construction workers * should be adequate .so there Is no need; fnr these workers to be in operating ' srens. Occasionally, use of existing; walks, stairs or elevators by construe- linn personnel is necessary, but it should J not interfere with operation. Vy IB fNOINCHINO AND MANAOCMENT SECTION POWE> ` *; c* Bock in July 1940, long boforo Hiroshima made examined .the feasibility .qf,,.deslgriingV. constructing' atomic energy o household torm.' POWEft pubiUhod o arid operating dual-purpose reoetbrs tb produce 'elecpionoer ortkle, "Uranium 295-- Power. Fuel, of the trie power and flstionablomatorial.' ' , v. . 'S'.K''. ** concluded, "Uranium 235 gives us the For security reasons many details', "particularly of . makings of atomic-power plqnts.. In the light of the roactor doslgn, cannot be given. Yet.her*, for the. firsts history, of-scfenco and engineering, eventual applica- time, the-'.'look'' ofpractical .ato'mic-power .pionts '>Sr Hon seems probable -- perhaps within our lifetime.'' emerges'--we.see how Ih'e'plantt/may be.built, got' S- Now, with atom research vastly accelerated by war seme idea how mujeh .thqyVmdy cost.-,We*-* learn. In. ond threat of war, we may' see ono or moro-large-, whot respects they will use.conventibqai steam equip-; cole plants delivering power by 1958, about 18 year* moot and methods, Arid we glimpse some of the un-' offer our quoted fprocast. Ancl. at some later, date, usual ways Ihoy.Will differl'from-famiHor practices; regarding which Ihere-cari-bb ho-agreement todoy, As our condensations of theso studies reveal, otomlc otemlc power may hie truly .commercial, holding Its power brings .a riew.technology --prio<.that power en ewn In competition with familiar energy .sources'. gineers rriust -dig .Into' ohd. mastoV.'-To'mal^e'.thli as Whatever tho date of truly commercial practicality, easy as .possible,''wo 'prefacbVlho^sumfiiqribs of the. "dustry Is ready and willing to carry development `-'engineering studies with our'qwribollod-down review, orword. Aware of this interest and dotlrous of stlmu- of tho facts e^ofbmlc fission.loHng Industrial activity In this field, the'Atomic In*: .Here/, then','ll Jwhat tho bysy.-.'bngiiibef needs to V*; hoi 'lusl released declassified.par-' ' know about otomlc' power today.-* fundamentals on oni of studios made.by -four Industry teams, Given . which it rests, engineering proposdk for actual plants, - 0cce* ti AEC data,* engineer members of those teams'' t -flllmjiljii --I laua.lM J- am a - -- ll-- ^--iA.kJJ 'vV - '*' V r-' rVVv'/r vV '