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Biomass | Thermal Oil Waste

Heat Recovery Plant
PLANT LOCATION Asia

FACILITY DESCRIPTION Wood Processing / Saw Milling

BOILER TYPE Forced Circulation

BOILER CAPACITY 2 [MW]

Conditions:

A medium sized timber processing plant was looking to expand its operation by introducing a new product.
The production expansion was going to impose a signi;cant additional burden on the site heat plant
capacity. The site was remote with no reticulated gas supply available and the cheapest alternative fuel
source was a bulk LPG which would have to be trucked in. A cost bene;t analysis indicated that the cost of
providing LPG as a substitute fuel source would render the proposed production expansion unviable.

The existing heat plant had been deliberately designed to operate ineAciently with very high exhaust gas
temperatures (600 -700 °C) to maximize its capacity to dispose of waste wood streams. One possible
source of the additional heat needed for the new project was to expand the output of the heat plant by
improving its eAciency. This could be achieved by designing and installing additional heating surface onto

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the existing waste wood heat plant in the form of a backend heat recovery system.

A complicating factor was that the supplier of the original thermal oil heater was no longer in business and
as such no OEM support was available to provide possible options for replacing or upgrading the existing
thermal oil plant.

Design Boiler was engaged to investigate the problem and determine if a more cost-effective option could
be found. After conducting a series of tests on the existing wood waste ;red thermal oil heater it became
apparent that a new economizer ;tted to the back end of the unit would recover suAcient additional heat to
meet the anticipated shortfall.

Design boiler provided a design for a plain tube economizer complete with fabrication drawings. The new
unit was speci;cally designed to ;t into the existing ductwork as a single module. This enabled the
installation to be completed within the annual 1 week plant shut down. The new thermal oil heater plant
complete with new economizer was commissioned successfully.

Thermal Waste Heat Recovery System ;tted to existing Heat Plant.

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