J045-- Summer Maintenance High Pressure Boilers & Boiler Plant Equipment

The contractor shall furnish the labor, material and equipment to perform the following work on the boilers and pressure vessels/tanks at VA Hudson Valley HCS listed herein including but not limited to all necessary factory gaskets, closing materials, providing documentation to VA Hudson Valley HCS of proper disposal at a Department of Environmental Protection approved landfill. The contractor shall open all pressure vessels/boilers and tanks for a 3rd party inspection by inspection contractor prior to cleaning each unit. C. Cleaning of fire side of water tube boilers: 1. Contractor shall power vacuum with a truck-mounted power vacuum, having a minimum of 460 square feet of filter area which is capable drawing 26" vacuum. Boilers shall be wire brushed from the outside and the inside. Contractor personnel inside the boiler shall wire brush all passes and tubes. This procedure allows for all passes in boilers to be thoroughly wire brushed. Boilers shall also be power air lanced and where necessary wire brushed, ensuring that all soot and/or other residue is totally removed. D. Cleaning water side of steel tube boilers: 1. Contractor shall open all handholes, manholes, mud drums, and low water cut offs. Contractor shall high pressure wash all tubes from steam drum down to mud drum. E. Cleaning of fire side fire tube boilers: 1. Contractor shall open and power turbine with 125 lbs. of air driving turbine at 4000 rpms. Turbine work shall be done with special cutter heads for exceptionally hard scale or wire brushes for softer scale, soot, and/or other residues. This procedure will also knock scale off water sides of tubes. Front and rear tube sheets plus fire drum of boiler will also be wired brushed and power vacuumed. F. Cleaning of water side of fire tube boilers: 1. Contractor shall open all hand holes, manholes, mud drums and low water cut-offs. Water sides shall be completely water washed of all loose mud and scale by use of water hoses and scrapers where necessary.

Division 23 -	Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC), Instrumentation and Control for HVAC, Hydronic Piping and Pumps, Hydronic Pumps, Vertical-Turbine Hydronic Pumps, Steam and Condensate Piping and Pumps, Steam Condensate Pumps, Pressure-Powered Steam Condensate Pumps, HVAC Air Distribution, Heating Boilers.
Division 42 -	Process Heating, Cooling, and Drying Equipment, Process Boilers.