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13 Essentials of Optimum Combustion

This document outlines 13 essentials for optimal combustion in a furnace. They include having an oxidizing furnace exit around 3%, balancing fuel lines to burners within 2-5% accuracy, ensuring fuel line particles are less than 0.1% at 50 mesh, accurately controlling primary and overfire airflows within 3%, maintaining minimum fuel line velocities of 3,300 fpm, and keeping mechanical tolerances of burners and dampers within 1/4 inch. It also recommends secondary air distribution be within 5-10% and fuel feed to pulverizers be smooth and accurately measured and controlled.

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13 Essentials of Optimum Combustion

This document outlines 13 essentials for optimal combustion in a furnace. They include having an oxidizing furnace exit around 3%, balancing fuel lines to burners within 2-5% accuracy, ensuring fuel line particles are less than 0.1% at 50 mesh, accurately controlling primary and overfire airflows within 3%, maintaining minimum fuel line velocities of 3,300 fpm, and keeping mechanical tolerances of burners and dampers within 1/4 inch. It also recommends secondary air distribution be within 5-10% and fuel feed to pulverizers be smooth and accurately measured and controlled.

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Thirteen Essentials of Optimum Combustion

1. Furnace exit must be oxidizing preferably, 3%.


Thirteen Essentials of Optimum Combustion
2. Fuel lines balanced to each burner by “Clean Air” test ±2% or better.
Thirteen Essentials of Optimum Combustion
3. Fuel lines balanced by “Dirty Air” test, using a Dirty Air Velocity
Probe, to ±5% or better.
4. Fuel lines balanced in fuel flow to ±10% or better.
Thirteen Essentials of Optimum Combustion
5. Fuel line fineness shall be 75% or more passing a 200 mesh screen. 50
mesh particles shall be less than 0.1%.

Rosin-Rammler Fineness Plot


U.S. Standard Sieve Size
1000 200 140 100 50 10

%
Thru

99.99

99.9

99

95

90

80

70

60

50

40
Thirteen Essentials of Optimum Combustion
6. Primary airflow shall be accurately measured & controlled to ±3%
accuracy.
7. Overfire air shall be accurately measured & controlled to ±3% accuracy.
Thirteen Essentials of Optimum Combustion
8. Primary air/fuel ratio shall be accurately controlled when above
minimum.
9. Fuel line minimum velocities shall be 3,300 fpm.
Thirteen Essentials of Optimum Combustion
10. Mechanical tolerances of burners and dampers shall be ±1/4” or better.
Thirteen Essentials of Optimum Combustion

11. Secondary air distribution to burners should be within ±5% to ±10%.


Thirteen Essentials of Optimum Combustion
12. Fuel feed to the pulverizers should be smooth during load changes and
measured and controlled as accurately as possible. Load cell equipped
gravimetric feeders are preferred.
Thirteen Essentials of Optimum Combustion
13. Fuel feed quality and size should be consistent. Consistent raw coal
sizing of feed to pulverizers is a good start.

Raw Fuel Size vs. Percent Fuel Feed Rate


100

95

90
Percent Coal Feed Rate (%)

85

80

75

70

65

60

55

50
0.50 0.75 1.00 1.25 1.50 1.75 2.00 2.25 2.50 2.75 3.00
Raw Coal Top Size (inches)

This data is based on Actual Recorded conditions of an EL 56; for informational purposes only.
All data recorded for coal with the same HGI.

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