Boiler Efficiency

Determination of fuel consumption with given Coal Consumption per Coal Consumption Coal Consumption
steam output and steam condition (X) tons of steam Expectation Per-Hour (OPR)

mD . (h - hSpw) . 100% kgs

mB = w 645 kgs/
619,636 6450.63 kgs
Hu . hK (X) T-steam per-Day per-hour

mB : Fuel consumption in kg/h and m 3/h respectively DATA Parameter

mD : Steam out put in kg/h u 40000 kgh 40.0 ton/h
h : Enthalpy of steam in kcal/kg u 16 bar.A 697.0 kcal/kg
hSpw : Enthalpy of feed water in kcal/kg (Economizer) u 60 o
C 60 kcal/kg
Hu : LHV in kcal/kg and kcal/m 3 respectively u 6000 kcal/kg 5000 kcal/kg
hK : Boiler efficiency in % u 0.790 79.0%

Actual Coal
Steam Output Consumption from
If the value for steam output cannot be established
Total Steam Production per-Day per-hour (Avrg.) Boiler Plant

mD = mSpw - mAbs w 960.58 tons/d 40.0 tons/h 5,500 kgs/hour

mSpw : Feed water quantity in kg/h u 1005.00 m /d 3

1,066.10 tons/d
mAbs : Demineralisation quantity in kg/h u 93.47 m3/d 105.52 tons/d
137 kgs/T-steam

2.2. Boiler Efficiency

(mSpw - mAbs) . (h - hSpw)
h K
=
mB . Hu
. 100 [%] w 92.7%

2.3. Determination of boiler efficiency in hK on the

basis of exhaust gas measurements

h K
= 100% - XA % - 2 %(max) [%] w 82.9%

Exhaust gas loss XA

ta - tu
= . SF w 15.1%
CO2 measured
ta = Exhaust gas temperature in oC 240 o
C
tu = Combustion air temperature in oC 30 o
C
CO2 = Measured in ppm 1250 ppm
Parameter at saturation condition of water and steam depending on pressure
barg 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
h'water
h"steam 639.0 646.1 650.8 653.8 656.2 658.1 659.7 661.0 662.1 663.1 646.4

NCVCoal 4200 4300 4400 4500 4600 4700 4800 4900 5000 5100 5200
hK 73.0% 74.0% 75.0% 76.5% 77.0% 77.5% 78.0% 78.5% 79.0% 79.5% 80.0%
ing on pressure
12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 22 24 26 28

664.6 665.2 665.8 666.3 666.8 667.1 667.5 667.8 668.0 668.5 668.8 669.1 669.2

5300 5400 5500 5600 5700 5800 5900 6000 6100 6200
80.5% 81.0% 81.5% 82.0% 82.5% 83.0% 83.5% 84.0% 84.5% 85.0%
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