PROJECT ON

AIR PREHEATRE REGENERATIVE

y
MOHAMED NAJEEB ALI SAAD
1481/2009

SUPERVESION : Dr.(En.) ABDUL-MALIK MOMIN

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
OBJECTIVE
CIRCUIT

DIAGRAM

OPERATION/WORKING
CALCULATIONS
ADVANTAGES
DISADVANTAGES
APPLICATIONS
REFERENCES

PRINCIPLE

INTRODUCTION

A Regenerative air preheater is a type of air preheater used

in thermal power plants to preheat the steam generator's
combustion air with the hot flue gas from the steam
generator.

The types of Regenerative Air Pre-heaters are

1. Bi-sector
2. Tri-sector
3. Qudrasector

Here the discussion is carried on the Tri-sector Air Preheater.

OBJECTIVE

Mainly there are two types of Air Pre-heaters

Recuperative Air Pre-heater. 1
Regenerative Air Pre-heater. 2

The main objective of this project is to prove that the efficiency of

regenerative air pre heater is more, when compared to the
recuperative air pre -heater.

It is to say that the Tri-sector type of Regenerative air pre heater

is more advantageous than Bi-sector type.

CIRCUIT DIAGRAM OF
BOILER

Pulverized
fuel

Primary air

Burner

Secondary air

Steam generator

Air preheater

Electric
precipitator

Flue gas

Coal bunker

Intermed. Flyash bunker

Fly ash
Excess Air

Coal
mill
FD-Fans

CIRCUIT DIAGRAM OF AIR

PREHEATER

Rotary or Regenerative Air PreHeater

Schematic diagram of the rotary air preheater in thermal power plant.

WORKING PRINCIPLE

Air Preheater is a device which is designed to heat the

air before the combustion process.

The purpose of Air Preheater is to recover the heat

from the flue gases which are obtained from the
boiler thus increases the thermal efficiency of the
boiler.

Due to the discontinuous action taking place in the air

pre heater, it is so called as regenerative air pre
heater.

TRISECTOR AIR
PREHEATER

There are three sections in

the Tri-sector Air Preheater.
Flue Gases

PRIMARY
AIR

Primary Air
Secondary Air

Flue gases are sent through

the chimney through
Induced Draft(ID) Fan.

FLUE
GASES

SECONDARY
AIR

 Primary

Air (PA) is used to dry the fine particles of

pulverized coal, which is then forced into the furnace
with the help of PA fan, from the gravimetric coal
feeder.

Secondary

Air (SA) is used to supply sufficient oxygen

for complete combustion of fuel and this is done with
the help of Forced Draft (FD)fan.

Primary
Flue

Air occupies 1/6th part of the Air Preheater.

gases occupies 1/2nd part of the Air Preheater.

Secondary Air

occupies 1/3rd part of the Air Preheater.

Sealings in air pre heater

Leakage in APH

Temperature

at inlet conditions:
Flue gas
3600 c
Air temperature 35o c

Exit

Temperature:
Flue gas
Air temperature

1400 c
180o c

CALCULATIONS
1)

2)

3) Convective heat transfer takes place in air

preheater i.e.
q = hA (t2 t1)
4) Area of Cross section occupied of flue gas, PA and
SA systems:

= 25.94 m2 Gas flow area i)

= 8.96 m2Primary air flow area ii)
= 14.62 m2iii) Secondary air flow area

Economic Impact of the Landmark

The

use of a Ljungstrm Air Preheater in a

modern power plant saves a considerable
quantity of fuel.
So much that the cost of the preheater is
generally recovered after only a few months.
It has been estimated that the total world-wide
fuel savings resulting from all Ljungstrm Air
Preheaters which have been in service is
equivalent to 4,500,000,000 tons of oil.

ADVANTAGES
Trisector

Air Preheater provides both

Primary and Secondary Air sections in a
single plate.

Due

to the presence of Primary section

immediate to the Flue Gas path,
complete drying up of coal particles
takes place.

It

has quick response with variation of

loads.

DISADVANTAGES
Leakages

are more, but this can be

avoided up to some extent by

perfect sealing system.

Constructional

cost for regenerative

air preheater is more when

compared to recuperative type.

APPLICATIONS
It

is used where in waste heat

recovery is possible for increase

in efficiency of particular device.
Hence

it is installed in every

thermal power station.

REFERENCES
Material

provided by KTPS.

Thermal

Engineering By R.K.Rajput, 6 th

Edition, published by Laxmi Publications.

Heat

And Mass Transfer By

C.P.Kothandaraman and S.Subramanyan,

6th Edition.
Heat

And Mass Transfer By R.K.Rajput.