CONTENTS

 INTRODUCTION
 OBJECTIVE
 CIRCUIT DIAGRAM
 OPERATION/WORKING PRINCIPLE
 CALCULATIONS
 ADVANTAGES
 DISADVANTAGES
 APPLICATIONS
 REFERENCES
 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 Preheaters are

1. Bisector

2. Trisector

3. Qudrasector

 Here the discussion is carried on the Trisector Air Preheater.

 OBJECTIVE
 Mainly there are two types of Air Preheaters

1. Recuperative Air Preheater

2. Regenerative Air Preheater

 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 Trisector type of Regenerative air pre heater is more

advantageous than Bisector type.

 CIRCUIT DIAGRAM OF BOILER
Steam generator

Primary air

Burner Air preheater

Secondary air

Electric
precipitator Flue gas

Coal bunker
Pulverized
fuel

Intermed. Fly-
ash bunker
Fly ash
Excess Air
Coal
mill
FD-Fans
CIRCUIT DIAGRAM OF AIR PREHEATER
 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

Trisector Air Preheater.

PRIMARY
 Flue Gases
AIR
 Primary Air
FLUE GASES
 Secondary Air
SECONDARY
AIR
 Flue gases are sent through the

chimney through Induced

Draft(ID) Fan.
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 Air occupies 1/6th part of the Air Preheater.

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

Secondary Air occupies 1/3rd part of the Air Preheater.

Sealings in air pre heater
Temperature at inlet conditions:
• Flue gas – 3600 c
• Air temperature – 35o c

Exit Temperature:
• Flue gas – 1400 c
• Air temperature – 180o c
 CALCULATIONS

1)

2)

3)
 [(Fraction of primary air x Inlet air
temperature of primary air sector)
4)Weighted air in
temperature = +
(Fraction of secondary air x Inlet air
temperature of secondary air sector)]

5) Convective heat transfer takes place in air preheater i.e.

q = hA (t2 – t1)

6) Area of Cross section occupied of flue gas, PA and SA systems:

i) Gas flow area = 25.94 m2
ii) Primary air flow area = 8.96 m2
iii) Secondary air flow area = 14.62 m2
 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, 6th 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.