Steam Generators and Waste Heat Boilers For Process and Plant Engineers by V. Ganapathy

PREFACE:For over three many years, I used to be related to boiler firms designing oil- and gas-fired customized package deal boilers and waste warmth boilers which can be in operation worldwide in chemical crops, refineries, cogeneration methods, and energy crops. The boilers have been working nicely and performing as predicted inside the margin of measurement errors. As a specialist in thermal design of warmth switch gear and out of curiosity, I’d correlate subject knowledge from working items with predicted efficiency to test the correction elements to be included in warmth switch or gasoline strain drop correlations that had been used for designing the boilers.

I’d evaluation working knowledge comparable to boiler exit gasoline temperature, steam era, gasoline enter, gasoline strain drop, evaporator, superheater efficiency, their tube wall temperatures, and different process-related parameters and evaluate the outcomes with predicted knowledge. Through the years this has helped me to fine-tune the calculation process and modify the correction elements used within the efficiency analysis of assorted warmth switch surfaces.

Via the publication of a whole bunch of articles throughout this era, I’ve additionally been sharing thermal design procedures for boilers and HRSGs with the engineering group. I’ve written just a few books, the current being Industrial Boilers and HRSGs, the place the emphasis was on sizing and efficiency analysis of steam generator and waste warmth boiler parts.

For the previous decade, for the reason that publication of the cited e book, I’ve been taking part in the position of a boiler marketing consultant. The transformation from a boiler designer to a boiler marketing consultant has been gratifying as I can work together with plant engineers worldwide and be taught from them about numerous boiler efficiency points and counsel modifications to unravel boiler-related issues or enhance their efficiency (the phrase boiler refers to a steam generator in addition to a waste warmth restoration unit).

Many plant engineers and even consultants don’t have any clue as to how a boiler ought to be evaluated earlier than it’s purchased or what data ought to be obtained from boiler suppliers relating to its thermal efficiency facets.

They rely completely on the gross sales pitch from boiler suppliers and purchase it with out giving any essential thought to its design from a thermal efficiency viewpoint. Buying a boiler is considered buying a commodity. When buying a steam generator or HRSG, plant engineers have to judge a number of elements retaining in thoughts that the lifetime of a boiler is about 30 to 40 years and that the plant should face the consequence of any unsuitable choice for a very long time.

Steam Generators and Waste Heat Boilers: For Process and Plant Engineers PDF

Author(s): V. Ganapathy

Series: Mechanical Engineering

Publisher: CRC Press, Year: 2014

ISBN: 1482247127,9781482247121

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