s72018 Why Economizer and Air Pre Heaters are Provided in Boilers ‘essenical zon pwatce SlucalEooen + SechenlEpetng * Chctel Emineiog 1 Comme Aslesoos + pn betacaos 1 Rae Daur ene + Marne Enonescna * UsiceEoseteo + sans She Stine tendarneefsheoy on ‘Economizer and Air Pre-Heaters are “™**™ Provided for Heat Recovery oilers are provided with economizer and air pre-netes to recover host fom the thie gases. An increase of aout 20% in blr eiieny ‘achieved by providing bath economizer and air re-hatrs. Providing conomize alone gives only 8s eMiieney increase and so datgners provide both Mort of te high capacity hors fing cos operate wih an eiciency| of around 86% oa the Higher Heal Value bass Loss of around 14% can ‘oe attributed to various losses of which the dy pas Tos is about 35% of the total When both ecouomizers and ar pre-heaes are not provided the ole efficiency dope to around 66% fom 86%, When air re beater eno provided te boiler effcincy wil be around 78 oy. ‘Thus we ean conserve about 20% exta ful when we provide bok cconomizes and ir pre-aters i boil. Economizer ‘The feed water fom the high pressure heaters enters the economizer sd picks up heat fom the lus gases afer the lw lemperature “upetheater Many types of economizer ae designed fr picking op hett ffom the fue gas, These canbe cassie as an inline or staggered arrangement based on the type ef tube arrangement. The staggered furangement is compact and occupies es volume forthe same amoune feat tanser when compared to the inline arrangement Heonamizrs fue alo designed with plain tube and fined tubes. The fis canbe longitudinal or spiral All hese types are suitable for clean fel ike gol, and low ash coals, For high ash coals, only the plain rbe nine Arrangement is used. This is mainly to reduce es erosion and thus reduce erosion alures. That eeonomizers pick up about S010 85 degrees centgree na lange capacity boiler, which will reduce the Tue igs tempoature by about 18010170 degree eentgrade. The boiler designers always koep the economizer water outlet temperature to about 25 1038 degrees below the drum saturation temperatre This done ‘mainly avod steaming inthe ecosomizer. A staring economizer ipenerlly les rlisble. Ava rule of thumb, for everyone Sere pick ‘up of economzer water trmperatrs, there willbe op of about $10 35 derees Ale pre heaters [Ae pre-hesters are proved in boilers to preheat the combustion a. “There are two main types recupeatve and repenertive at hese hips: brighthubengineering.com/powerplanis/34240-economizer-ané-alr-pre-hoators-are-provided-fr-heat-recovery! 18si72018 Why Economizer and Air Pre Heaters are Provided in Boilers “Tubular or recupenstiv aie pre-haters are provided in bilers of ‘media and small range of steam generation. Ths type of sir pre-heater ‘becomes very lane in size it they have tobe wed in very high capacity ‘oilers like 600 tons‘ of seam production and above. n these cases roenerative air peceates are ued. The arangement of ll tese ae ‘resesters der with he desi an, in large, the way they are ombined fo very high espacty boilers. Regenerative ar petheaters fare compact ang can ave t sttionary or rlzing hood. A combination of tubular and regenerative typeof ar pre-betes is used in very high apa oilers. The bul eing used for primary ai heating and the regenerative used forthe secondary ai heating Incase the bo Asigacts dono: want ogo fora conination of tubular and regenerative ir pre-heater, then they havea choice of sector Tegeacrative air heate Novmlly the ambient iris heated to about 300 10350 degree centigrade, This reskin a Poe gas temperate drop of sound 230 1 250 degroc centigrade, So for each degee pickup ai tempt, rughy 08 dee rope sempre ‘Steam coil ar pre-eaters are another type. These are used oly during startup ofthe boiler fo prevent low temperature cosion. This air heater doesnot contribute to improving the efficiency of boilers, but are provided to improve aval Is seen that during sat up the ances of low temperature erosion high and hence the need to provide the scam cola: heaters evide "oth economizer and ale pre-heates ate called est recovery systems in ‘boule. 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