The product of corrosion in the feed water system transported into the boiler and gets deposited on the internal surface of waterwall tubes. Proper treatment of boiler feedwater effectively protects against corrosion of feedwater heaters, economizers, and deaerators. It leads to overheating and on-load corrosion and ultimately tube failure.. Heat is transferred through a thin layer of superheat...

A model-based least-squares algorithm with a time-varying forgetting factor is developed for leak detection in boiler steam-water systems. The algorithm has been tested using real industrial data from Syncrude Canada, and has proven to be effective in detection of boiler tube or steam leaks; proper implementation of the algorithm would lead to early leak warning, which is important in maintaini...

PROCESS AND TECHNOLOGY STATUS – Combustion boilers are widely used to generate steam for industrial applications and power generation. While all kinds of energy sources fossil fuels, biomass, nuclear and solar energy, electricity can be used to generate heat and steam, the scope of this brief is limited to combustion boilers using fossil fuels and biomass. Boilers can be grouped into two broad ...

In this paper the reclamation and reuse of municipal secondary effluents, as well as the reclamation and recycling of refinery secondary effluents, are technically and economically evaluated. It is shown that both practices are feasible and sustainable, and that the reclamation costs depend largely on specific circumstances such as legal requirements, price policy, reuse application, raw water ...

Recovery of both latent heat and condensate from boiler flue gas is significant for improving boiler efficiency and water conservation. The condensation experiments are carried out to investigate the simultaneous heat and mass transfer across the nanoporous ceramic membranes (NPCMs) which are treated to be hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces using the semicontinuous supercritical reactions. Th...

Copper alloys are widely used in the manufacturing of heat transfer applications, this due to their excellent heat transfer properties. Copper contamination is one of the serious industrial problems in the boiler feed water system. This contamination commonly resulted from copper corrosion reactions in boiler feed water environment. The best way to reduce the copper contamination is by improvin...

A thermal power station is a power plant in which the prime mover is steam driven. Water is heated, turns into steam and spins a steam turbine which drives an electrical generator. After it passes through the turbine, the steam is condensed in a condenser and recycled to where it was heated; this is known as a Rankine cycle. The greatest variation in the design of thermal power stations is due ...

Pulp and paper mills are high power consuming industries. Pulp and integrated mills produce power via steam turbines in recovery boilers. Due to high power prices and the fact that biomass combusted in the recovery boiler is considered as green energy, there is today a desire to always increase the power generation when investing in new recovery boilers. In order to increase power output from t...