
Boiler Efficiency and Steam Quality: The Challenge of
Specific problems can include frequent boiler shutdowns from low-water level, damaged steam pipes and valves due to water hammer, vibration, corrosion, erosion, reduced capacity of steam heaters, and overloaded steam traps. These problems are most frequently caused by low steam quality, often called "wet steam" or "carry-over."
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Steam Pressure Reduction: Opportunities and Issues
Steam Pressure Reduction: Opportunities and Issues. Some of the main potential losses in a steam system are noted in Figure 1. Only the energy losses that can be reduced by lowering steam pressure will be discussed in this technical brief, and are listed below: • Steam leaks from high-pressure . components (e.g. valves and piping)
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Improving Boiler Room Efficiencies The Effect of System
The steam volume required to be transported from the boiler to the point of use heavily impacts distribution operating pressure. The physical properties of steam prove that steam has a different specific volume for each temperature/pressure phase it exists in. As an example 15 PSIG steam has a specific volume of about 13.85 cubic feet per
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Lower Pressure Operation of Boiler than Designed
The problem is mainly the specific volume of steam; reduction in pressure increases the specific volume. This leads to higher steam pipe and tube velocities thus increasing the pressure drop by a square function.
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AN INVESTIGATION ON FUEL CONSUMPTION REDUCTION IN …
for the flow field study which applied for nominated steam boiler with the capacity of 300 t /hr. Results show that such an old boilers are working in low fuel to steam efficiency due to high stack
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Calculating the Energy savings of reducing steam boiler
Reducing boiler pressure will result in lower temperature of the flue exhaust gas (burning fuel), hence there are some savings there (sensible heat lost in flue gas). As a thumb approx rule, you can say 1% overall energy efficiency in the boiler for every 22ºC reduced in the flue gas.
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Boiler Combustion | CleanBoiler.org
By injecting water or steam into the flame, flame temperatures are reduced, thereby lowering thermal NOx formation and overall NOx levels. Water or steam injection can reduce NOx up to 80% (when firing natural gas) and can result in lower reductions when firing oils.
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Boiler Capacity - Engineering ToolBox
Boiler load - the capacity of a steam boiler - is often rated as boiler horse powers, lbs of steam delivered per hour, or BTU. Lbs Steam delivered per Hour. Large boiler capacities are often given in lbs of steam evaporated per hour under specified steam conditions. BTU - British Thermal Units
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BOILER SELECTION CONSIDERATIONS - Cleaver-Brooks
The firebox boiler uses similar tube attachment techniques as the firetube boiler. Its combustion chamber is not round, like the firetube’s cylindrical furnace. The firebox boiler is typically manufactured to low pressure steam or hot water applications. The firebox boiler is a compact, economical unit and serves as a good fit for
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Boiler (power generation) - Wikipedia
A boiler or steam generator is a device used to create steam by applying heat energy to water.Although the definitions are somewhat flexible, it can be said that older steam generators were commonly termed boilers and worked at low to medium pressure (7–2,000 kPa or 1–290 psi) but, at pressures above this, it is more usual to speak of a steam generator.
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Steam Accumulation: An Energy Efficient Technology
Aug 27, 2015 · This is because water (not steam) is used as the heat storage medium. The reason becomes evident when the greater heat storage capacity of water is compared with that of the same volume of steam vapour at any given state of temperature and pressure.
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Preventing Overheated Boiler Incidents - Northeast Gas
• This condition is primarily caused by coincidental failures of redundant safety controls that maintain safe temperature, pressure, gas supply, and water supply.
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Steam Accumulator Importance in Boilers | Thermodyne Boilers
Steam Accumulator as the cost-effective solution The plant already having a boiler of a certain capacity but for some reasons, the process load requirement increases for certain time period in a day while for other time, process load requirement falls even below the maximum capacity.
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Steam Generator versus Steam Boiler - AB&CO
The disadvantages using a steam generator compared to conventional steam boilers are: Not able to have even small and short peaks in steam consumptions beyond the maximum capacity. Separate buffer arrangement to be considered. Not capacities above 3000 kg/h
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How to Calculate Boiler Steam Flows | Hunker