Condensing boilers use waste heat from flue gases to pre-heat cold water entering the boiler. Flue gases are condensed into liquid form, thus recovering their latent heat of vaporization, which results in as much as 10%–12% increase in efficiency. Modeling these heat transfer phenomena is crucial to control this equipment. Despite the many approaches to the condensing boiler modeling, the follo...

Heat pumps (HP) and electric immersion boilers (EB) have great potential to increase flexibility in energy systems. In parallel, decreasing taxes on electricity-based heat production are creating a more favorable economic environment for the deployment of these units in Denmark. In this paper, the economic value of heat pumps and electric boilers is assessed by simulating their day-to-day marke...

PROCESS AND TECHNOLOGY STATUS – Combustion boilers are widely used to generate steam for industrial applications and power generation. While all kinds of energy sources fossil fuels, biomass, nuclear and solar energy, electricity can be used to generate heat and steam, the scope of this brief is limited to combustion boilers using fossil fuels and biomass. Boilers can be grouped into two broad ...

In industrial applications, 90-150°C hot water needed during production processes is traditionally provided by fuelfired boilers. The use of fuel-fired boiler has a low efficiency of energy usage and potential danger of explosion. Byproduced 30-60°Cwaste water with large amount of energy is rejected to environment directly, which causes a great energy loss and thermal pollution. Seeking for a h...

This paper studies a planning problem for heating water. Hereby, boilers (e.g. gas or electric boilers, heat pumps or microCHPs) are used to heat the water and store it for domestic demands. We consider a simple boiler which is either turned on or turned off and has a buffer of limited capacity. The energy needed to run the boiler has to be bought on a day-ahead market, so we are interested in ...

This paper reports research in progress. Two types of domain decomposition have been used in distributed computing with networked workstations for the numerical modeling of full-scale utility boilers. The numerical model is a three-dimensional combustion code which couples turbulent computational fluid dynamics with the chemical reaction process and the radiative heat transfer. Two approaches, ...

As more power generation facilities fall under increasingly strict environmental regulations, many difficult emissions control questions must be answered. In addition, the changes on the electricity market make efficient generation vital if a plant is to remain viable. Until recently an effective method for identifying optimal emissions control technologies has been elusive. Fortunately, emissi...

Ferromagnetic tubes in Heat Exchangers, Boilers, Air Fin Coolers are most common in the Petrochemical Industry. Carbon Steel, an inexpensive material has good mechanical properties and heat transfer capabilities. However, it is often employed in conditions where corrosion if it sets in, acts very fast. Over the years with shrinking maintenance budgets and longer intervals between plant shutdown...

P.Ragothaman,[email protected] Dr.N.V.Mahalakshmi,[email protected] Institute for Energy Studies, Anna University, Chennai-25,Tamilnadu, India. P.sudhakar,[email protected] Abstract Circulating fluidized bed reactors are widely applied in industry for power generation in boilers and gasifier. Computational Fluid dynamics modeling of hydrodynamics and heat transfer can be an effe...